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"I ae in your chaos It should be glorious but it is not -- not even to me Instead you are catastrophic I cannot chance you to exist as you are any longer"

She whi with him Ari watched him shake his head

"I cannot kill you" He leaned forward and pressed a kiss to her forehead "You were born to upset the balance of things, Lilif It is your way But left within your hands, your destiny would cause such a shift that even Azazil the lover of destruction cannot allow your destiny to remain in your control You will live your destiny er to stroke her sive me"

A yell of disbelief escaped Ari before she could stop it as the Jinn removed his hands from around Lilif’s neck only to punch a hole below her left breast with his otherworldly fist He withdrew the bleeding hand with a sickening, squishy wrench thatin the pal with power and promise

"Ari, wake up"

The e at her shoulder

"Ari"

It kept co for her "No"

"Ari Wake Up"

Her eyes flew open, her breath co down at her with a frown on his face as he lifted his bag down fro rapidly, Ari turned to Jai "We’re here?"

Her guardian frowned at her, his eyes seeht of the plane "Are you OK?"

"Yeah" She shrugged off his concern and turned to tell Charlie to let her out Instead her friend just stared at her "What?"

"You were having a night orry and love "You sure you’re OK?"

"It was a bad dream, that’s all"

"You want to talk about it?" Charlie shot a look at Jai and she realized they were tag-teareat" She sneered, standing up, irritation fro away at her patience "And then we can all eat ice crea each other’s hair"

At the sound of two long-suffering sighs, Ari pushed past Charlie, not sure she could restrain herself froether

20 - Rue They’d passed sihborhood, all built with Arizona Stone Most of thes and yet still offer up a feeling of space and laid-back wealth with their palatial arches, pillared colu running fro this place while they were out in Arizona Since there were fifteen of the that could accommodate them all And accoo in before they mistake us for weirdos," Charlie said frorunted "Mistake?"

Charlie snorted

Ari quirked an eyebrow Charlie’s snort was a ‘laugh with’ not ‘laugh at’ kind of snort Were Charlie and Jai getting along? Uncoetting along with either of theie I think it’ll just freak them out to know she’s there and they can’t see her"

"Amen Why couldn’t it have been kept frohten her uilty

Instead of acknowledging the coie a secret The less people knoe have her as extra protection the better"

Well, he’d certainly changed his tune about her poltergeist Without looking at hionistic clip to her words, "How coh the telepathy?"