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"There are male clothes upstairs If Lauren is not the sorcerer we seek, then perhaps she lives with him"

That was certainly possible "We need not only to find out more about her, but to keep an eye on her" I closed the pantry door "Which ain"

"This place has no security ca point Why would she own a massive place like this and have no obvious form of security?"

Did Lauren feel so secure about this location--or maybe even her own skills--that she felt no need for protection? Or was it, perhaps, that all her security was centered on the property’s perimeter rather than within the actual house itself? It wouldbefore they actually reached your door And while I hadn’t seen a security one down to the beach, that didn’t mean there wasn’t one Or that it wouldn’t have reacted if I’d been in human foroes on in this house," Azriel said

"Maybe it’s not so oes on, but hom"

That someone wasn’t Lucian The clothes upstairs hadn’t been his size, nor, as far as I knew, his style

For a change, Azriel made no comment on Lucian and simply said, "Did not Stane have a miniature camera device that proved useful once before?"

"He did" Said device had been et infor not only a Razan, but perhaps involved with our sorcerer Unfortunately, he, like many other of our leads, had turned out to be a dead end--in this case, literally "I’h"

"You can ask"

"True" I glanced at ht now I have to do Ilianna’s shift, as she and Mirri are off celebrating their anniversary"

He raised an eyebrow as he tookthat should be celebrated?"

"Always" My gaze searched his "I’ reapers have no desire for such frivolity?"

"There is no need for it"

"Why not? I mean, it’s not like you’re incapable of emotion, and you do live in fa term isn’t an alien one"

"No" He hesitated "Reapers do not view or feel emotions in the say than it is emotion"

"So a life mate--"

"Caomh," he corrected

I made a face at him "A Caoy-wise?"

"Yes It is rare, which is why reapers tend to live in very large farandparents, etcetera?"

"Yes Ready?"

I nodded "So, what about your family? Do you have any brothers or sisters?"

The only answer I got was the surge of energy as he swept us from Lauren’s mansion to the shadowed and minute-by-comparison confines of ht my balance, then stepped back and said, "Well?"

"I have both I do not see thee to his voice? I frowned "Why not?"

"I ael"

My confusion deepened "So?"

He half shrugged and turned away, race to the sofa on the other side of the rooed blue fire flickered down Valdis’s sides--a sure sign Azriel was not as cal a hunter is a punishlory"