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"This is a war, and it’s been going on far longer than either of us have been alive, canı happens for a reason Rhys will be fine"

Despite his coriuys are practically indestructible, right?"

"Exactly"

Ava still had smoke in her nose when they pulled up to the e It was dark fro di the car into a deserted alley

Malachi got out and walked around the corner, returning after only a few minutes with a set of keys and a determined expression He opened the back door and started to ease Leo out of the seat The youngfrorunted "You’ll need to get the door" He tossed her a set of keys and Ava rushed to pick the a narrow staircase next to the rug shop Ava opened the door to a deserted apart room and a kitchenette

"There’s a bedroo Leo, the tallLeo was the tallest in the house, Ava wasn’t quite sure how Malachi was even standing, but she didn’t question it She opened the door to the back to see a bed, narrow but clean She knocked off the pillows and stripped off the covers, clearing the bed for the wounded ently, and Leo immediately curled to the side Ava saw him bite his lip so hard that it bled

"Rhys?" she asked

"I lost my mobile Do you have yours?"

"In et it Stay with hihts?" The house wasn’t pitch-black, but close The s let in light from the street laht in the front room was all that shone in the small apartment

"Wait for now There are more in the rooms upstairs and the s are blacked out on that floor"

He ducked out of the room, and Ava heard him on the stairs as she sat next to Leo and stroked his forehead His skin was starting to burn with fever, so she got up and looked for a washcloth or rag to cool him She found a towel in the kitchen and returned to hi it on his forehead as he relaxed under her touch

For the first tihts

Jaron had been protecting her; she was al about their conversation had convinced her otherwise--but he had been protecting her for so the fallen angels and the Grigori, and so in the city had shifted Was it a coup like Maxim had predicted? If so, any protection Jaron had offered her was gone There seeori in Istanbul, and they were bold enough to have burned the scribe house

Ava had no idea where they would go Did they have other safe houses? Should she go back to Los Angeles and take shelter in Carl’s fortress of a house? Soet her out of thisMalachi was unthinkable at this point

Reshon She was the one saying it this tiiven her only confirmed it