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The neck wound had closed first, his ierous threat His da had come next, but while Aodhan could fly short distances, and had been encouraged to do so by the healers in order to strengthen the weak new muscle, it’d be several ht status

His broken bones had healed, but his left arenerated partway to his elbow at this stage It was currently covered by a neatly pinned white shirtsleeve in deference to the fact that cold could so the body’s resources into generating warmth

It spoke to the power in Aodhan’s veins that he’d healed at such speed Most angels his age would’ve still been bed-bound, their recovery counted into do with Aodhan’s physical health No, it had to do with a slow but deep healing of the soul

Illiuel “I think our honored second is stalling Why does the love that is Favashi nash your teeth?”

“It’s not the ravates me” Dmitri scowled “It’s the el had nearlyher personal weapon

D the blade of the person he loved—he was lethal and there was honor in protecting that which was precious to the heart and the soul He did have a proble to see through her rape “At least Michaela wears her self-interest and narcissisrace while having the soul of a cobra”

Aodhan shook his head “She did nothing ai of you to coht; immortal politics didn’t permit any but the ruthless to survive In truth, Favashi and Michaela had little in co strong immortals into service continued to irritate him “We all serve Raphael of our own free will You’d think the lesson would be clear”

Hair glittering diaet, D We are an experiment—most of the old ones expect you in particular to rise up and rebel any day now”

Aodhan had always been closest to Illium, Dmitri over five hundred years old when Aodhan was born So he hadn’t realized until no el Aodhan had always seen the world through an incisive lens, so that was visible in his artwork

“Soelkind” A thousand years he’d been by Raphael’s side—withthe way—and still people refused to believe that theirs wasn’t only the relationship of an archangel and his second, but a friendship

“You aren’t alone,” Aodhan said “I think some of the old ones have become so insular, so ensconced within their coterie of like-row They are like the butterflies Lijuan kept pinned to her walls”

In contrast, Raphael lived in the center of one of the world’s ular basis, and, critically, both Delkind did not truly understand