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“Hoas yourwith Dmitri?” Janvier asked as they walked inside

“Good” Hitching herself onto the counter, she said, “I was able to give him a heads-up on that creepazoid va for the Tower in the role of liaison with the people who lived in the gray that had been Giorgio’s hunting ground, though she’d also received dispensation to work for the Guild in her off time

“It would be idiotic of us to deprive the Guild of one of its best hunters when the hunters do a task that makes our job easier,” Dmitri had said point-blank “You and Janvier, however, will also work as a team directly under my authority to hunt down older vampires wanted for crimes beyond the purview of the Guild”

That was a job she could sink her teeth into, with the best partner she could ihtly when she added, “Ellie grabbedandjust come onboard”

Janvier handed her a bottle of blood froe “Both of us?”

“We’re a pair” It was an irrefutable truth “She told Raphael she was planning to steal you and he said she’d made an excellent choice”

Janvier’s smile was slow “I see no downside, cher We will be expected to undergo intensive training over time, and to come in if Elena needs us—”

“We’d do that anyway” Ellie was family

“Exactly Otherwise, we’ll be kept busy with any number of tasks, much like the Seven” He came to stand between her knees “I say yes”

“Me, too” Ashwini had the feeling Ellie had no idea what to actually do with a Guard—it’d be fun to figure it out with her, hold on tight to that friendship into eternity

“Speaking of Vivek,” Janvier said, “did you hear he regained the use of his right hand last night?”

Having put the bottle on the counter, Ash pumped her fists in the airthen frowned “Wait a ain any voluntary movement below the neck and he has an entire hand already?”

Janvier’s eyes glinted “So is afoot, but I do not knohat” Palms braced on the counter on either side of her after he put his bottle down, too, he said, “Aodhan was responsible for Vivek’s Making, but there are rumors Keir was in the roo”