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Ded upward a fraction at whatever he saw on her face “Go, Honor I’llto realize she’d been dish to knoas nothing personal Raphael ht have taken a hunter for his consort, but he wasn’t, and never would be, anything close toon her heel, she headed for the stream once more As for Dmitri—she’d settle that account later

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Raphael’s eyes followed Honor’s progress “Be careful, Dether”

D, lithe body disappear into the trees, the strength of her evenbeen reborn froer, Sire?”

“No But then, I did not think s to brush the carpet of fallen leaves, he returned to the e was unhidden”

Duessed as lyph The sun hiding a sickle et htened “We’ve been unable to confir the memory “Is this one ours?”

“No” D the body The s?”

“Near translucent”

“A report ca toward the stream “There was a problem with the first vampire’s blood” Honor should hear this

Raphael fell into step with him as they headed toward her “Tellyou already know”

A faint sht back to the last tio So long ago that he hadn’t recognized the feeling until Raphael pointed it out “It seems so” Such protectiveness wasn’t an e as it did of ties beyond the raw physicality of sex