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“Stay with her until Veno around the other side of Sorrow’s dead assailant, she walked close enough to him that the backs of their hands touched It was the first time she’d made a conscious effort to touch him skin to skin

His body burned

The trip to Sorrow’s house didn’t take long “Co wos cut Honor saw herself in her, as she’d been before Sara’s callbefore Dered on her own, and she wondered if he understood what it meant to her to know that her need to reach hio in and have solazed look lifting a fraction, as if she was fighting to break free of the shock “I have coffee”

“That’ll do”

Sorrow’s movements continued to be jerky and uncoordinated as they walked into the house, where the woan to ed“I was one of his victi filled “He took us as alked to the el Uram had entered New York in an effort to take over Raphael’s territory But, if Honor was reht, there had been a low-level hu of disappearances that had taken place in the city around the same time However, that speculation had died down the instant a more viable suspect was found No one wanted to believe such uessed

“Yes” A laugh as bitter as the coffee dripping into the glass pot on the counter “Though I’ I wasn’t always Sorrow” The coffee out a cup, she slid it across to Honor before pouring one for herself “I’ve never killed a man before”

Honor took a sip of the hot liquid before answering, feeling eons older than this girl, though the actual age gap between them was probably closer to six or seven years “It takes so fro you never get back”

The first person Honor had stabbed hadn’t died, but the feel of her knife slicing into fat and flesh, the sharp scent of iron in the air, it was nothing she would ever forget “But,” she continued, “some people need to be killed” That man had intended to hurt her—she’d seen it in his yellowed smile the instant the social worker left

He’d had the nerve to call the cops afterward, screa detective had zeroed in on the fact that the “victiirl’s bedroom Sometimes, the system worked

A perfunctory knock at the door, then fir into the house—the valasses, dressed in another sleek black suit, this tiray

“There you are, Sorrow” An ale ofto have to keep a closer eye on you”

Sliding her gun back into her shoulder holster, Honor watched as he slid off the shades Slitted and bright green, his eyes were those of a viper “Okay,” she said, not fighting the urge to stare, “that, I wasn’t expecting” They had to be real, the reason for the sunglasses, but even knowing that, her brain had trouble processing the sight, it was so alien

A slow s a warmth at odds with the eyes of a creature whose blood ran ice-cold However, the words he directed at Sorroere uard, I’ll find you nice, coe would work better”

The young wohtened Then she threw her half-full cup of coffee at the va the missile with a reptilian burst of movement, the vampire hissed as the cup hit the wall and shattered, the coffee spraying out to splash his slick suit At that instant, there was nothing huun leveled at him before he rose froh,” she said, directing the stateet out”

The va over a face that was shockingly handso to do you any good” Suddenly he was in front of her, long, strong fingers closing over her rib cage, though she hadn’t so much as seen hier

The sound was huge in the enclosed space, Sorrow’s screah Tucking her gun back into the holster, Honor picked up her coffee again, surprised at her own calriainst the wall, his hand cla blood at a speed that would’ve promised death for acost?”

On the other side of the counter, Sorrow leaned against the sink, wild color in her cheeks “I want to learn to do that,” she said, staring at Honor “To defendto heal “I hear you did ayourself today, kitty” Sorrow’s snarl filled the air “You should’ve ripped his nuts off before you killed hi tone “Would’ve hurt like a bitch”

Honor’s lips twitched “Good advice” Putting down her coffee, she watched as Sorroent to clean up theat Venoive to her

“It wasn’t conscious,” the young woman said after a while “I don’t kno I did it—I’m just a stupid kid on ht came from deep, deep within her “I’ll teach you,” she said, and it was a decision that took no thought