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Yes, he thought, she had been Ingrede had never been openly possessive—except when it came to Tatiana, who had indeed looked at Dmitri with an invitation in her eyes that should’ve been directed at no married ”

Raphael laughed “She gaveto seduce you”

And then, D but a friend, she had invited Raphael to dinner So gentle had been Ingrede, but she’d spoken without fear to an immortal as they all stood in a newly sown field, and that immortal had cohed as we did at that table”

“It is a cherished otten, one that has never faded”

It helped, he thought, to know that someone else remembered her Remembered their children Misha and Caterina had had such fleeting lives, but those lives had burned the to make its mark there, that of a hunter akened an to shadow his wife’s srede

“Kallistos,” Raphael said after longacross the river to land on the Tower roof

Dmitri forced his mind off the only tomen—one so sweet and of the hearth, the other a hunter but with those saentle hands—who had laid claim to his heart in his near thousand years of existence “I’ve alerted every one of our people in the region” He knew the vampire was close—the taunts had been too personal At least in Ti nearby to witness Dent” However, Isis’s lover didn’t concern hiel who had been taken “Will the boy survive the constant use Kallistos is ri, still vulnerable There is no knowing how e Kallistos has caused” Do you have a watch on your hunter?

Of course If Kallistos truly was eance he’d threatened, she would be his target—because Honor was rede had been mortal “Not this time,” he said, the words a vow

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Sorroelco wo frohted when Honor told her it was tiet out of e into long black exercise pants paired with a sian to warm up on the private lawn behind the house while the other woman ran inside

The vampire atched her from his relaxed seat on the back steps raparound shades and a black suit with a crisp white shirt, his hair brushed back into perfect lines If she didn’t know better, she’d have thought he’d stepped out of some Fifth Avenue salon and wouldn’t know one end of a blade from the other Except she did know better She’d seen the way Venorace aabout the ballroo off his shades to reveal those startling eyes, so very alien “I proentle”