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Of course That hy his ar since he woke He rubbed his hands over his forear he could rub away the unwanted attention "I don’t knohat happened And you don’t look er than me, so how old am I?"

Leo said, "You used to be around four hundred But do we start over now?" He grinned "Aest anymore?"

Max tapped Leo on the back of the head "Stop He’s obviously still Malachi He’s just different You’re still the youngest in the house"

"Damn"

Malachi looked toward the door "Where did all the others go?"

Leo said, "Evren sent the scribes in the house searching the archives to see if there are any records of Irin co back to life after death Rhys went to search Damien’s phone and credit card records to see if he’s still traceable I’ he won’t be, but we can hope"

"And Damien is with…"

"Ava"

"Yes, Ava" His woman His mate

"It must have been her" For the first tiht we’d lost you, Malachi I watched you die Saw the dust rise to heaven when he killed you"

Leo put his arm around his brother "There was no question She felt your loss"

"Ava was… torn in then you died," Max said "I’ve never seen--I don’t rerief like that before"

Malachi sed a groan She was out there, grieving his loss, and he was unable to coh he couldn’t rerief "I need to find her Why did this rim "Darowing stronger every day" He glanced at Malachi "Obviously"

"You’re saying she didn’tme back This was some kind of"Never a mistake, brother"

"Then why--"

"No trained Irina would have done it They have rules Boundaries As we do Set in place thousands of years ago by the Forgiven when they gave us the gift oflike this--to tear a soul from heaven--is… not done I didn’t even knoas possible"

"There probably isn’t even a spell for it," Leo added "But Ava grew up a hu ritual between you two--but she has no idea how to use it"