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She’d learned that particular lesson well "Then let’s find hiet the brih plan So as her gut knotting orry? Why did she feel like danger was just waiting to descend?

Because it was

Az opened the door fully Sunlight spilled inside the bar The ic to zip then wherever they needed to go, but that traveling mode wasn’t exactly her preference They had the motorcycle, so they could darn well use it--and she could avoid the aftereffects of feeling like she’d vo

So they hurried toward thein about two seconds Threedown the street

Racing so fast that she alure across the road The tall, blond el who’d come for her before Bastion

"Az!" She tried to shout out a warning to hiine just ripped her cry away Jade glanced back, her hands tightening on Az, but Bastion was gone

"Is she gonna make it?" Tanner demanded as he stared down at the pale forel Tears had dried on her cheeks long ago Her lips, tre with cries of pain

Her wings were gone Cody was good, but the guy wasn’t a s had been cut off, the skin on her back savaged Cody had stitched her up, he’d drugged her so the pain would stop, but there wasn’t much else he’d been able to do

Gone

Tanner had known for years that his brother was a sadistic bastard, butdoing this? To an angel?

She lay on her stoes covered her back He brushed his hand down her ar to coed

This shouldn’t have happened to her This wasn’t her war

It’s mine

"She’ll heal," Cody’s voice was quiet "But fro back"

An angel’s skin could regenerate Her torn muscles could s, she’d be trapped on earth

"Az can give her his blood" They’d be seeing the Fallen in just a few hours "With his blood, she can--"

"We both know the blood loss isn’t going to kill her" Cody glanced up with his pitch-black stare Cody never bothered with glamour when it was just the two of them Why pretend? Tanner knew exactly what his brother was

He knehat both of his brothers were