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She halted a foot away He closed that distance to take her into his arms, careful not to imprison her, but she didn’t freeze up at the contact Instead, she sank into the eht around hi sun-soaked ainst his vampiric senses
The last ti a woht, he’d beenwords he’d spoken to no other, “loved the sunshine She would come out into the fields with me, and while I worked the I was always tearing entle as she said, “A wonderful wife”
“She was,” he continued, knowing that though the ht fro the loss of her smile, “but she also used to drive e when I got home, and by the time I’d return from the fields, she’d have done it and have the bruises to prove it” His heart had almost stopped the day he’d found her on the roof “And she couldn’t cook”
Honor looked up, eyes sparkling “Did you ever say so to her?”
“You ence” He bent until their foreheads touched “She pretended to love to cook and I pretended to adore her cooking, and we both lived for the village festivals e could buy frohter was a deep, husky sound, twining into his very blood And for a moment, he washappy, in a way he hadn’t been happy since the day the cottage turned to ash, taking his heart with it “Witch, you are,” he said, dipping his head to claim her lips in a kiss that held both the sweetness of the sunshine—and a good dose of raw sex “In my bed, Honor That’s where I want you”
Lips wet from his caress, she cupped his face “I think”—a soft murmur—“that’s where I want to be”
It was full dark by the ti for theh the mail today” He handed over an envelope
It proved to contain a note written in the saht Honor to the Tower
“I’ll be leaving to take the night watch on Sorrow in another fifteen minutes,” Venom said while Honor scanned the note “Do you want el Enclave, keep an eye on the cops?”
“No Illiu the code in her mind, tuned out the rest of their conversation It wouldn’t take her long to translate this, she thought, not with the work she’d done on the tattoo
An hour later, she looked up from where she sat on the sofa in Dmitri’s office and passed him the translation
You took what I loved Noill take what you treasure
Honor rubbed her hands over her face as De in silence “He has to have knohat Isis did to you And still”
“Love, it see down the piece of paper, he picked up his phone “Jason,” he said when it was answered on the other end “Describe Kallistos to me” A pause “Yes, beyond a doubt”
Honor waited until he hung up to say, “Kallistos was Isis’s lover?”
“Yes, though he had a different name then A youth, only decades into his Contract He was bleeding fro him live had been an easy decision “We believed him another victiardless of her cruelty
“A young angel,” he said, choosing his words with care so as not to put Honor at risk of having her onefrom Neha’s court No one is quite certain when he disappeared” Especially given this next fact “Ask e of hi out a breath “It’s how he’sthose protovampires” A question in her eyes “I know you won’t tellthe initial stages, but everyone knows it’s the angels who Make the vaels did nothing to negate that view, it was in fact the younger adults who built up the toxin her his level of tolerance—though even archangels weren’t iel was last seen by so her implied question “If we assue into account, he would’ve been able to successfully Make one va to the plate glass of his , the rain that had begun to fall forty e, “and it diluted the effect” Brow furrowed, she recrossed the carpet
“Quite likely” Not only that, Kallistos hadn’t followed the correct procedures, the reason for the mutation in the dead round now that we have a na coainst his desk, nodded However, her expression was troubled “I can’t stop thinking about Jiana She see as yet to say that she isn’t—Amos’s madness may be his own” But Dmitri had deep doubts about that, because froled arped love had its roots in soliness that seeded a twisted kernel deep within the soul
Midnight green eyeshi the distance between theers over her jaw, the softness of her skin an irresistible enticement “Do you think you can readover his wrist—“I know you far better than I should”