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D ones were always looked after “I’ll speak to the other seconds in the Cadre, see if they can shed any light on the els do not just disappear”
“No, but I’ve known the occasional youth to go a little wild after first leaving the Refuge” Jason dealt els included, but Dels because he liked to take a look at everyone co male to a ‘party island’ in the Mediterranean” He shook his head at thethe revelers—he’d never iined that level of hedonise of the balcony “Astaad,” he said, “there’s soet any details but she’s working on it”
Astaad was the Archangel of the Pacific Isles and one who did not appear to play political gaht his behavior was connected to Caliane’s awakening” There were always side effects when an archangel rose to consciousness, and Raphael’s mother was one of the un by another source” Eyes on the city, dazzling under the sunshine, he said, “You’re older than me, Dmitri”
“Only by three hundred years” A joke between two ine
“I asked Elena what it was like to be mortal She said time is precious in a way an iht” Do back in time, destroy Isis before she ever cah it would mean he would die in a few short decades “I felt more as a mortal than I have in the centuries since”
“Will you love me when I’m fat and unwieldy with our babe?”
He put his hand on the curve of her belly, touched his lips to her eyelids, the tip of her nose, her lips “I will love you even when I am dust on the wind”
Honor watched Del and hissed out a breath at how close he was to the unprotected edge Unlike the angel, he had no wings should he fall, and yet he stood there with a confidence that said he wasn’t the least worried about the eventuality
A change in the air at her back
Swiveling, she discovered the vampire with the wraparound shades in the doorway “Dh to the balcony without a word, just as the black-winged angel stepped off the edge Those incredible wings disappeared for aspeed On any other day, she would’ve followed the trajectory of his flight, but today her attention was locked on D whatever it was the other va in, he said, “Leave that We’re heading out”
An arrogant command, but she read the tension in the air, made the connection “Did you find the rest of the body?” Even as she spoke, she was re the data card from the laptop in case she couldn’t i as they entered the elevator, but clearly the signal didn’t drop because he had a quick, curt conversation
Meanwhile, the other va, and those et a reading on hi to distract herself froe with two deadly predators, she said, “Sunglasses in the dark as a fashion statement went out with perms”