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“I’ll speak to hih the centuries” A glance out of those eyes of inhuman blue “As have you, Dmitri”

“None of them could have done this” He’d already a I can handle with ease” Even if those gael who hadn’t deserved the quick death they’d dealt her “It’s the second situation that’s become more critical”

Raphael listened in silence as Dmitri laid out the facts of the el said when Der, “she is competent?”

“Yes” Brilliant mind, human heart, ancient eyes

“Elena is a better tracker”

Impossible to dispute, since Elena was hunter-born, a bloodhound as far as vampires were concerned “That skill isn’t necessary at present” And this was Honor’s hunt, as Isis had been D theht to his back, Raphael turned to look Dht in the eye “Many believe such depravity is exactly what you would savor”

Dmitri knew that, understood full well how close he was to crossing lines that could not be uncrossed “It seeenerate”

You would never harel’s voice in his mind, the purity of it almost painful We both know this It’s why I allow you to push Elena in ways for which I would kill another

Some would say you trust me too much, Sire

And some would say you are wasted as a second when you could rule your own territory

It seeether they walked back into the library and down the corridor that led to the front entrance “Venom will need to leave the city soon,” Raphael said “Galen is strong, but I want hie Naasir must remain in Amanat”

D to New York?”

“Yes”

“He’ll cause chaos” With eyes of fractured glass and wings of diast iliht”

Dmitri nodded Aodhan had an aversion to touch, one Del had been brought in two hundred years ago Raphael had carried Aodhan’s emaciated and dirt-encrusted body in his arms, laid his, which were nothingon to bone