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But what came after he woke as an alet, not even if he lived to be ten thousand years old

Wild blue across his vision, the flickering yellow light turning the gli threads of silver in Illiuood databases,” the angel said, closing his wings and slipping away the knife at the same time

“Yes” Dmitri had ways to access those databases without Guild cooperation, had done so on ood move to loop the hunters into this case so they knew to alert him to any similar incidents—because the instincts honed by close to a thousand years of bloody survival said he needed to handle this hi?”

When Illiu, he raised an eyebrow “I’d have thought Elena would have taught you soave hiolden eyes tipped with black lashes dipped in blue, an echo of his hair “Do you think I will fall again, Ds?”

Dmitri was unsurprised at the question Illiuels and vael, because he was anything less than piercingly intelligent Now he aze “You look at her in a way no el” Illiuel, she had a vulnerable huel said nothing as D There was no other evidence here for anyone to collect—the head had floated up on the Hudson, been spotted and retrieved by Illium as he flew over the river a mere fraction of a moht, could’ve come from anywhere

“She compels me,” the other uard that relationship with my life” Quiet, passionate, absolute

Do at that, but there was erous attraction “It’s not betrayal I’m worried about It’s you”

Illium’s hair swept across his face in a capricious wind before settling “In A of the lost city newly arisen, “Elena said she needed ainst you” A faint smile “It was a tease, but it does her no harm to have someone in her corner”

Dmitri didn’t dispute Illius toward the Guild Hunter as Raphael’s chosen consort “You’re convinced she saved his life when Lijuan attacked?” Illium’s report seemed implausible, and yet Raphael hiel contacted D

“Only Raphael knows the truth, but I knohat I saw,” Illiu, and then he lived—and the flame in his hands was colored in shades of dawn”

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