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Yes Too often, he saledge in her eyes that shouldn’t have been there, felt a fahter thatin to a subtle insanity of his own And yet he couldn’t pull away, pull back “There’s nothing ht” The phone call to Jason had set the search for Kallistos in motion, and as for Jiana’s son, Dion on alert

And soardless of the consequences To allow it to pass ain come

“Dmitri, corede After I return froh fear lurked a silent intruder in her eyes “After you return”

Except Isis’s men had taken him when he returned His lasttheir children and trying not to betray the terror that had turned her waro back, never dance with his hile Misha laughed and the baby kicked her legs in the air, but he could kiss this wo mysteries he was driven to solve “It’s tiht over her cheekbones, knew she wasn’t certain she wouldn’t panic, slash out at him in self-defensive violence, but her ansas a sis in silence as Derous black and to the top floor of the Tower It proved to be carpeted in white with glittering threads of gold, the paint on the walls that saold-flecked white, the artwork a mix of old and new—a brilliant tapestry of a place of s whose doors opened out into thin air; a glea sword sharp as a razor; a framed poster of the ridiculous television show Hunter’s Prey, complete with the muscle-bound lead and his “vampire vixen”

“Illiuaze “It should be interesting to see her reaction”

Honor’s lips twitched “They’re good friends”

A shadow drifted across D, “Raphael’s suite occupies half the floor The rest of the area is divided into quarters for the Seven, though mine takes up double the space of the others since I spend the most time in the city”

She hesitated “You don’t have another home?”

“It never sees in that statement, understood that the idea of home held a pain for him he would never seek to re-create

“Don’t worry,” he said before she could say anything, “the square footage of each aparter than that of most stand-alone houses, and the walls are soundproofed to ensure total privacy”

Honor had nothing against the setup and was quite certain his apart space ten times the size of her own But—“No, Dmitri Not here”