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Ari shivered, unnerved as always

"Why? How?" she asked softly

"My brother, Glass, paid me a visit"

"Glass?"

He nodded, face blank "Yes He told me what the Sultan’s new form of entertainment was and well … it pleases me to thwart aze sharpened and he took a step toward her "Do not mistake my actions as affection I will leave that to my brothers, Red and Glass, who seem to have developed an unseenored his reproach and felt a war Red and Glass really did care for her She’d have to thank the to soothe the hurt She’d never have her real father’s love That was clear now She squeezed Jai’s hand and leaned even th "You could’ve givenflicked a disinterested look Jai’s way before turning back to Ari "My brother asked ranted his request"

"Balance?" Ari’s eyebrows puckered in confusion

White cocked his head to the side, studying Ari in that way that always freaked her out "All I have ever wanted was to have the order of the Jinn return to nor as it is balanced by the good My brothers and I played an ioverned over days of the week I wanted the old world restored and I believed Lilif was the only Jinn who could help ht absolute chaos I a and if it were not for you, she would have accooal I owed you for that Now the debt is paid"

Ari nodded, understanding that at least He had caused her a lot of pain A ton of it, actually, but today he’d saved her frorateful "Thank you"

White frowned in distaste at her gratitude "Still so human," he muttered and without another word, he whirled around, his robes billowing behind hi around his heels, taking him away into the Peripatos

Ari turned her body fully into Jai, breathing hi her to him His mouth was on hers before she could say a word and she melted into his kiss She knew he could taste her tears of relief spilling down her cheeks to her lips

Ho had been emotional as Ari was pulled into Trey’s arly even Michael’s

As she stood back and watched Jai get sih it was more a masculine back thump from Trey and Michael), it occurred to her that she had people who truly cared about her Not just her, but Jai

They’d all been heartbroken for thehted to have theether

However, before Ari could enjoy the moment, Red and Glass rather impolitely ushered Ari, Jai, and Trey out of the Roes’ house and into their own

"What’s going on?" Jai asked, his arm still wrapped around Ari’s waist

Since their quick escape froo of her

Red and Glass gave them hard looks

"This isn’t over It won’t ever be over unless I do soravely

Ari and Jai gazed at one another with puckered eyebrows before Ari asked Red what he meant

"You know Asmodeus will just find another way to torht, uneasiness dalow of relieved happiness "Yes"

"I won’t let that happen Enough is enough"

Jai took a step nearer to Red, his body solid with tension "What can we do?"

"Not we I" Red nodded to Glass and Trey "Tell them"

Glass tilted his head at Ari "Have you felt anything different about Trey? So about his aura Does it feel … like"Yes How did you … I thought …" She cleared her throat "I assu so much time with you" She blushed now "Intirinned at her e

Glass frowned at hirin harder With a sigh, Glass turned back to Jai and Ari "When Pazuzu slit Trey’s throat, Ihas ever made I cannot allow harive hi, trying to process what the hell Glass meant He continued, "You know that pieces of a Jinn can be taken and placed within others You saw that with your mother, Ari, when Red and I took a piece of her and placed it within the Jinn trapped in your father’s bottle When White killed that Jinn, that piece of Sala returned to her I gave a piece of myself to Trey but in the event that Trey dies, the piece of me will die with him I have made it so I have made it so that no one will harm him If they harm him, they harm me, and if they harm me--"

"They disrupt the balance," Ari finished, her eyes ith astonish,

"But when Trey dies a natural death …?" Jai whispered, obviously just as shocked

Glass shook his head "He is imbued with me and with my power Trey will live indefinitely That’s why I had to ask his permission before I did it"

Ari’s jaw dropped as she turned to her friend "Trey, you’re i, Trey nodded "I want to be with him," he replied siain "With your per to place a piece of ht as well have disappeared beneath Ari’s feet, and as if sensing that, Jai held her tighter