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At any other tiry, but this was Ash, who had understood that Honor needed to escape before she had herself “I owe you one”

“Want ned out for the hunt”

Honor glanced around her room “Give me a couple of hours to pack up here” She didn’t have much, but it was an unspoken rule that the bed was to be stripped, the floor vacuumed, and any trash reate”

“Honor?”

“Yes?”

“It’s good to have you back”

5

He’d lied to Favashi

D el Enclave—to Raphael’s home

During the tied, he had once threatened to feed Isis to her hounds But in actuality, after he’d stabbed the angel sobut thick, bloody pulp, Raphael had wrenched off her head with a single vicious pull Then together, the two of them had cut the bitch up into small pieces, but not to throw to her hounds No, they had burned her to ash in a blaze set in the center of her courtyard Unlike an archangel, Isis hadn’t been powerful enough to return froretted the brutality of what they had done It had been necessary to ain rise He only wished they could’ve taken longer, rede must have But Misha had been alone and scared in the cold, lightless place beneath the keep, returning to him Dmitri’s nu to crawl across the stone, small hands swollen and bruised from his futile attempts to claay theneither D him

“Shh, Misha” He tried to keep his voice calh as he took those broken hands into his own, brought the taken the key from Isis, he unlocked the iron that held Misha bound, threw it far away “I’m here now” His eldest child’s sht “It’ll be all right”

Chest taut with a pain that had never lessened, Dmitri pushed the re lot beneath the Tower Silent and fast, the gate opened at once The Ferrari purred into its usual spot, and a couple oftoward the elevator, his memories contained behind walls no one had ever breached