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"Wraith" His voice was a guttural whisper against her ear "Callnow… Wraith"

He fking caain when he heard her call out his naether, their skin slick with perspiration, their lungs sucking oxygen like there wasn’t enough on the train

"Thank you," she said, taking a ragged breath "God, thank you"

She was thanking hiive hi he didn’t deserve

So no, he didn’t deserve thanks, and he wasn’t sure he should thank her, either

Because Serena had saved his life, but in a way, she’d killed hieup the phone after speaking with Wraith Shade sat across frou for the news

Wraith had retrieved the char a marathon, but it sounded like his brother had fallen for the hu to end in disaster Especially because he’d all but ordered E to find a way to save her at all costs, and nothing Eidolon said could convince Wraith otherwise

"Shade, he got the charood news--"

Reaver walked--or, el’s hair, norled and dull, falling around sunken, bloodshot eyes His hands were black with dried blood, his skin so white his veins beneath it read like a roadto his feet as if to catch Reaver

"Forget me," Reaver croaked "Serena Need to protect her"

"Oh, now you’re ready to help?" E asked, and Reaver bowed his head in a nod "Good What’s special about the necklace?"

"There are things I can’t say" Reaver aze, his cracked lips set in a stubborn line

"Dammit, Reaver, it’s been stolen, and it sounds like it’s a pretty da deal"

The very last drop of color drained froan to sway, and Eidolon shot to his feet to catch the angel before he keeled over Fortunately, Reaver caught himself on the wall

Good Eidolon hated to ad soave him the willies

"It can’t be," Reaver said "What you’re saying is i you, it’s not I need to know about the necklace Right now"

Reaver’s pale blue eyes were diamond sharp but haunted when he locked them with Eidolon’s "The pendant," he said, in a clipped voice that eddon on a chain"

Shade stopped chewing his guain?"

"The amulet It’s a piece of Heaven"

"Ah… Heaven? Literally?"

"Yes"

E exchanged looks with Shade, because this was big Beyond big "Reaver, we need to know ave the angel a minute to coe of co with his

"In the Daemonica, there is mention of a celestial lock and key"

E nodded, because he knew the passage in the de to decipher it for centuries "Go on"

"It is said," Reaver continued, "that when Satan was booted from Heaven, he took a piece of it with him in hopes that it would allow hi a skirel Hizkiel took it back But thousands of years of corruption had altered it It could not be allowed back in Heaven for fear of taint But neither could it be left on earth for deate between Heaven and Hell So it was decided that it should be put into the keeping of huood and evil has always been about uard it, their downfall will be their own doing"

Eidolon had a bad feeling about this, especially with Wraith landing sood and evil "So it’s been left in the keeping of a human who has been charmed?"