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The other hunter’s eyes gleamed “We’ll talk” She looked up at her consort “So, what did that slimy coward have to say for hiust in Raphael’s words “In truth, he had no true loyalties, did only as good for Giorgio Cornelius had known hiio in the Quarter, he tracked hiio that he’d be rewarded when Lijuan arose anew”
“Sire,” Janvier said, “Giorgio wasn’t always thus He was a great physician Is it the e?”
Raphael’s ansas absolute “No He simply became bored with eternity and this was his entertainel’s features did nothing to hide the ruthlessness that made him one of the Cadre “I believe he accepted Cornelius not because of any belief in Lijuan’s resurrection, but because he wished for a partner in his perversions”
“Giorgio shouldn’t have been able to get aith hisas he did,” Dmitri said, his voice stripped of all traces of civility
Thinking of Carys’s surprise at Ashwini’s response to the report of the twopros, she said, “You need a better way to stay in touch with the vulnerable”
“Ash is right,” Janvier said “There’s a gray world beneath the surface of the city, and it’s froio pick their prey I’m also concerned about how many submissive mortals I saw in the Quarter clubs”
Dmitri frowned “We have a network in place, but its focus is on keeping an eye on the iht beco”
What the Tower needed, Ashwini thought, was someone like Ransom, someone trusted on the streets and protective of its denizens, but asn’t mortal It had to be a vampire, a man or woman who’d already made the choice to live in the immortal world
“We can discuss this further tomorrow,” Raphael said “For now, the predators are locked up, and you both”—those eyes full of power noticing Ashwini and Janvier again—“have earned the night off Enjoy the peace while it lasts”
There was no doubting it was an order
“Sire,” Janvier said, and the two of therabbed a black and red iven to the wo to remember
“Grab a few bottles of blood,” she said to him once they were in the ive you”
His sood”
Rolling her eyes, she leaned in and kissed hi out she’d needed a s it to her
“No thanks necessary,” he said and took her hand again “Just always be ht on a heartbreaking surge of love, to see the world with you, to fight with you, to kiss your sinful, laughing io had becoive her soul to experience a single mortal lifetime with the vaical breakdown that would eventually fragment her into myriad tiny pieces