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Her eyes stung and her vision blurred She scrubbed at her lashes with i in front of other people, but it orse with Reed, who fidgeted uncomfortably in reaction Much like his father So unlike Alec, who felt too much and was open about it

Reed looked down at their joined hands "Raguel is probably dead"

Eve froze It was a good thing her heart worked like ahow many times she’d been surprised today "What would ot frouel was still alive"

"Do you believe her?"

"I don’t know It makes sense There have only been seven firaze lifted to meet hers "I have to look into it"

If Gadara was dead, then Riesgo ht be, too She supposed she’d rather take the word of an archangel over Satan But she had never been a blind-faith sort of person She couldn’t believe anything without proof Which et Satan to provide so day ahead of her tomorrow

"I need to crash," she said The sooner she fell asleep, the sooner she could get up and get to work

"Yeah" He watched her with dark, sluht"

In answer, he stood and pulled her to her feet, then carried her to bed

A ringing phone woke Eve

Turning her head, she peeked at the nightstand clock with one eye It was just before eleven in the roaned "We overslept"

Reed pinned her in place with a heavy leg thrown over hers "Ignore it"

"The world is going to hell," she argued, "and we’re in bed"

"Anywhere else you’d rather be when the world ends?"

He had a point She lifted the arm he had draped over her torso and kissed the back of his hand "I have to answer that"

He rolled onto his back with a growl, freeing her By the time Eve picked up the receiver, voicemail had intercepted, but a quick scan of the caller ID told her the call bad originated from Gadara Tower She was about to dial her office line when the phone started ringing again

She sat up "Hello?"

"Ms Hollis" Her secretary, Candace, spoke in a whisper and sounded slightly panicked "The police are here for you"

Eve brushed her hair back from her forehead Beneath the oversized T-shirt she wore, Satan’s necklace throbbed between her breasts "Yikes"

"I told them you were out to lunch and that you would call them when you returned, but they insisted they’d wait for you to come back"

"Double yikes"

Reed sat up

"Okay’ Eve said "I’ll get there as fast as I can"

"Thank you"

"No, no Thank you You’re doing a great job Be there soon?’ She hung up and winced at Reed "Cops"

"I heard," he murmured

Eve stared at him, unable to look away As a mal’akh, he suffered none of the aftereffects of sleep thatbreath He was sieous Relaxed in a way she’d never seen before, bare-chested with slightly hing, she tossed the covers back and clio"

"I’ll take you there"

Right She had no car "Forgot about that"

Half an hour later, she was dressed in a pencil skirt and silk blouse with her danon and three-inch heels on her feet that still left her shorter than Reed

He’d showered with her, then shifted hoht about how little she knew of him She’d never been to where he lived, so she had no idea what his taste in furniture and design was like As a designer, knowing those things would give her a lot of insight into who he was As would the selection of books he owned or the lack thereof, his MP3 playlists, DVD collection