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"Where is she now?"

"Thierry took her over to Shaw House He’s going to stay with her until she finishes the change" This was the part Alex didn’t want to handle, but felt she should try "Val, I’m sorry--"

"Yes So am I" Valentin rose, aard and slow "She loves hi they’ve been an ite arm "You like the folded-sleeve look?"

"It doesn’t matter" He walked past her

"The reason I ask is that I think I can reattach it" That stopped him in his tracks She smiled as he turned around to stare at her "Kyn spontaneous healing plus ot your arive it a try?"

"When ere dancing, I asked her opinion of ht She thinks exactly as you said"

"Maybe she was just being polite--"

"Not this tih for it to affect her You see, it is my talent When I touch huht about it "That must more than occasionally suck"

"It is why I have never touched her" He smiled briefly "I think a part of me knehat the truth would be That to Jema, all that I arows beautiful flowers"

"You are more than that, Val, and if I weren’t in love with Cyprien, you’d be too daoes on, pal Or, in our case, on and on and on and on and on"

He took her hand

"How many dead?" he asked her as they walked up to the lists, which Alex was using as a te the gun quickly I should be able to clear everyone out of here by tomorrow" She smiled at hioing to have to bill the hell out of the jardin?"

Cyprien met theery soon, but Valentin has to decide what to do with the ringleader He is the only survivor"

Val and Alex followed Cyprien through the hospital to one of the storage roo held by two of Jaus’s guards Cyprien reached down and re Falco’s face

Alex rubbed her brow "Terrific The guy as driving us around town"

"I have nothing to say to you," Falco told her He turned to face Jaus and spoke in rapid German

"He seems to have a lot to say to Val," Alex told Cyprien in a conversational tone

"My seneschal confesses to lish, Falco The seigneur will hear this"

"The seigneur" The bigbut Richard’s pretty boy Yes, I went to the brothers and bargained with theets they wished eliminated I went to the streets, found the stupid huht ue? Was he part of this?" Cyprien asked

Falco spit on the floor in front of Michael’s shoes "He was only to kill the Shaoman I used the crossbow that day by the lake You would be dead if not for your yellow bitch"

Jaus stared down at Falco sadly "He wanted to assassinate you, Michael, so I could succeed you as seigneur He is an Aryan, Alexandra, so your racial background makes you unacceptable in his eyes"

"Oh, so he’s a Nazi," Alex said "I get it But I’ht caramel" She leaned over and smiled in Falco’s face "Remember that the next time you insult me, you racist jerk-off"

Cyprien crouched down in front of the seneschal "Falco, how " Falco looked at Jaus "I swear this to you, ht with the master anymore," Alex advised him "I wonder how many other people he has killed over the years?"

Jaus suddenly straightened "Kurt"

"He got in hteous "He ca with the monks He would have told you He never could keep his littered "So you killed him"

"He had to die, like the Shao over her SheAfter all I did to , to keep you safe"