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I wrapped ers around ate began to grind and screech its way to one side, I couldn’t help looking over my shoulder

My gaze met the reaper’s His face was chiseled, ale that spoke of a man who’d won more than his fair share of battles His eyes were blue—one a blue as vivid and as bright as a sapphire, the other almost a navy, and as dark and stormy as the sea

Awareness flashed through those vivid, turbulent depths—an awareness that seeh me It was also an awareness that seemed to be accompanied, at least on his part, by surprise

For several heartbeats neither of us moved, and then he simply disappeared One second he was there, and the next he wasn’t

I blinked, wondering if it was soy and ser than the blink of an eye to achieve Of course, I was only half Aedh, so maybe that was the problem

The reaper didn’t reappear, and the heat of his presence no longer burned through the air or shivered through one Which was totally out of character for a reaper, as fa

r as I knew

Iabout until said soul was collected I’d never known of one to up and disappear the iven that the ability to actually spot them was a rare one, this probably wasn’t an everyday occurrence

Mo abilities—abilities that had been sharpened during her creation in alab—certainly couldn’t see theht she did have came via a psychic link she shared with a creature known as a Fravardin—a guardian spirit that had been gifted to her by a long-dead clone brother

She was also a full Helki olf, not a half-Aedh like me The Aedh were kin to the reapers, and it was their blood that gave me the ability to see the reapers

But why did this reaper disappear like that? Had he realized he’d been following the wrong soul, or was so on?

Frowning, I walked across to my bike and clilove, and I couldn’t help s The Ducati wasn’t new, but she was sharp and clean and coetting a little old by today’s standards, she still put out a whole lot of power Maybe not as ray hair Or so my mom reckoned, anyway

As the thought of her ran through e to call her My frown deepening, I dug my phone out of my pocket and said, “Mom”

The voice-recognition software clicked into action and the call went through almost instantly

“Risa,” she said, her lu ar about you”