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"Tell her she’s a spoilsport"

"Oh, I have, trusttable to transfer the search results frorab a coat and my purse

Once I’d finished my sandwich, I stood in thetoto continue?"

"As Ilianna has already noted," he said, voice even, "I a around He stood several feet away from me, his arms crossed and his expression back to its usual noncommittal self "Then why couldn’t I sense you?"

"Because I didn’t allow it"

I frowned "If you’ve always had the ability to stopyou, why haven’t you?"

"Because I haven’t always been able to"

I blinked Definitely not the answer I’d been expecting "Then why have you suddenly gained the ability?"

"For the sahts and eht otherish The closer our link becomes, the more it opens so it’s a tay street?"

"Possibly"

Meaning yes I briefly wondered just what it hts and feelings, but I knew hi to tell me that sort of inforardedin search of the next key?"

"Yes As scary as Hunter is, she has nothing on the Raziq If I don’t start actively trying to find the keys, they just "

And Tao and Ilianna would be their first targets; of that I had no doubt

A chill ran through ht ofunder attack from the Raziq, or a premonition of trouble of another kind headed their way Fast

"How do you wish to travel to Ballarat?"

I hesitated, very tempted to ride the Ducati there and tell hiot over the moodiness, but I really didn’t have the luxury of time Not if that premonition was to be believed

"You can take me, if you’d like"

A close toin the blue of his eyes "Oh, I would like"

I raised an eyebrow "If I didn’t know you better, reaper, I’d think not only was that a double entendre, but you were flirting"

"Reapers don’t flirt" He stepped close and wrapped an arainst mine, his touch tender and yet oddly possessive "It is merely a truth I cannot deny"

I rose up on my toes and said, my lips so close to his that I could al that you want me?"

"From the very first moment that I saw you," he murmured; then his lips hly as his energy rose and swept us through the gray fields to the chill of Ballarat Not that I actually felt, in any way, cold Such a thing wasn’t possible when Azriel’s aret a roohed softly and stepped back His hand slipped from my waist, and inal Culture Centre"

I turned around The building was lass, and painted in colors that reold, pinks, and browns I frowned "This really doesn’t look like a o inside"

"True" I half shrugged and headed for the entrance, paying the fee for both of us but refusing the guided tour It was interesting to look around, but there was nothing in this place for us

"Well," I said, once ere back out "That was a waste of time"

"At least there is one less option on the list" He pressed war me away from the cultural center "What do you wish to do now?"

I pulled out lanced at my list "Let’s try the Aviation Museum That’s probably the next least likely"

"Done" He wrapped his arain and took us there Thetin shed