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"Your opinion has been duly noted," I said dryly "About eight hundred times over"

"You don’t want Azazel to find out about Gabriel, but you’ve called the one angel who is likely to run straight to him and report? Did Saot to find so to be able to find Gabriel, or negotiate with the faeries, or anything else," I said patiently "Nathaniel is the only angel I can ask"

"But you can’t trust him," Beezle said "He only wants to hter He’s not really a fiancé"

"Actually, I think it’s hter" I shookhim as an actual betrothed"

Beezle’sin to Azazel’s will and accepting the e?"

It rankled when Beezle put it like that "No I most certainly am not But maybe if I treat Nathaniel decently, he will do the sa earlier about naïveté?"

"I have to try, Beezle," I said "And stop fussing with the pillows I’m fine"

"Fine," Beezle said darkly "Don’t say I didn’t warn you"

He flapped to the front ithout another word and disappeared out to his perch

I rested ainst the pillows and closedI wasn’t na&iu for Nathaniel’s help I also knew that I would never find Gabriel in this condition, and that I couldn’t afford to eeks to heal

I must have fallen asleep for a while When I openedmine There was an expression on his face that I couldn’t define I realized thatwas gone, the pain disappeared He had healedreue touched the place where my teeth had been loosened by Sauoodness I didn’t want to spend the rest oflike a hockey player or a hillbilly

"Thank you," I said, and I said it without begrudging Nathaniel his existence, the way that I usually did I didn’t knoould have survived for this long in the angelic world without healing The injuries that I had incurred from Ramuell alone would have killed me or crippled me for life if it had not been for Gabriel’s abilities

"Such a fragile thing," Nathaniel said softly, and it was like he could hear s hurt you so"