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Honor jerked back to the present with a cry of horror locked in her throat Pushing past Jason’s wing, the feel of his feathers liquid silk, she ran through the corridors until she stu passed hispering swiftness The golden early ht poured over her, a luly thought inside the house, that slice of words and sound, hadn’t felt like a dreah she’d never been in such a horrific situation Her heart ached with such pain she couldn’t bear it, the infant girl’s frightened screa her soul to pieces

“Honor”

It took conscious effort to close off the ripping chasm of a memory that reverberated inside herto find here” Instead of the joy she’d expected to feel at this instant, when the hunt for her abusers was reaching its final stage, there was a hollowness inside her, a sense of loss that erased such petty things as vengeance “I’s, the ht “There is a car waiting for you by the gate”

“Ded it

Jason gave her a penetrating look “He’s a vampire of old It is instinct for hione in a wash of windhard and fast up above the cloud layer, until she could no longer see even a glimmer of black

But he’d left her with a crucial piece of knowledge when it ca with Dmitri in a relationship

His woman

She had no doubt that that had been a deliberate word choice on Jason’s part, another hint as to how Date, she considered the issue with care—because Dmitri was the most important part of her life and she wasn’t about to lie to herself about that

She could reject the car he’d organized and call up a cab,it clear that she wasn’t about to allow him to treat her like a butterfly in a jar Or she could accept the ride and the fact that her lover was a thousand-year-old vaive or take a few years, who came from a time in which his act would’ve raised no eyebrows

To be utterly honest, it was nice to feel wanted, to feel cared for after a lifeti care of herself While she couldn’t define the relationship between her and Dmitri, she kneould protect her with brutal ferocity until it was over

Reaching the car, she slid in Not only was having a chauffeur in New York nothing to sniff at, but acquiescing to it didn’t do her any harm, while it allowed Dmitri to do what he needed to do: take care of her

A s her blood She didn’t fight it, even as she thought that her capitulation when it caotiation tool when a bigger battle loo with a ent and as harshly practical as Dlanced at Raphael as they stood along the cliff behind Raphael’s home, above the relatively calm waters of the Hudson and across fro sunlight “Was I wrong?” he asked, knowing Raphael had already spoken to Jiana

He wanted to be wrong, the need co from the part of him that believed a mother should always care for her child, the part that knew Ingrede had spent her last breaths trying to save Misha and Caterina

“Your wife fought to protect your daughter, D”