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"That would see with the Grigori"

I was getting i "Look, can we just assume that Azazel doesn’t know, and that if we pull this off, he will never know? Are you going to help"You are asking , for the sake of a half-blood thrall and a woritted ht like you more if you help me out"

"Very well I will assist you But I ant soe fro? Could you be ?"

"I do not knohat I ht about it for a ht of refusal, sa I want to do, then you can ask ain, then," he said, and he held out his hand to me

I wondered if this was how Faust felt when Mephistopheles held out the contract I was getting so I wanted, but what price would I pay?

I put my hand in his to shake, and instead he raised it to his lips When his mouth touched my skin, I felt a little thrill of attraction deep inGabriel I tried to pull away and his fingers tightened on mine

"Remember, Madeline Black, you aretobetween us I will be master in my own house"

I narrowed my eyes at him and yanked my hand away, any hint of attraction doused by his attitude "And you wonder why I dislike you"

"You have lived too long on your own," he said "You will see my way is better, in time"

I clenched my fists at my sides I would not lose control and blast him back into the Old Testament, which was apparently where he had collected his notions of e I needed him to help me now If he wanted to believe that one day I would be a meek little miss ould cleave unto him without a word of protest, then he could have his fantasies There was no guarantee that the e would actually happen in any case

"Whatever Listen, do you think that we could go back to the alley where Gabriel wentthat I didn’t? It seeargoyle? Do you believe that he was taken by the sauard?"

"I have to believe it," I said "Otherwise I have too many enemies to contee practically dictates that it is so"

"Way to corocery store, the site of the second wolf e attack fro back there, since an assorts had already occurred at that site But it was the only lead that I had

Late-afternoon traffic backed up on Ashland below us as we flew The sky had a gray, wet look and the air was cold and da only a T-shirt and sweatpants, since I hadn’t really thought about dressing for the weather when I ran outside to search for Beezle I couldn’t be seen when s were out, but I could still experience the elements I was invisible, not indestructible Nathaniel, on the other hand, seeloves and hat Yet another reason to dislike hian to drizzle

"Wonderful," I reat when the weather obscures every possible piece of evidence"

"The type of evidence that we are searching for would not be visible to the hu for traces of ht you said that you couldn’t trace a power signature?"

Nathaniel huffed, clearly annoyed that I had renature, but I can sense the evidence of ic You would be able to as well, if only you would concentrate"

"So you h that he couldn’t hear I hoped

As Nathaniel walked around the area, I tried to focus ic, to send out my will and look for the traces of other kinds of power This wasn’t like casting nightfire, or even the kind ofto its body It wasn’t about destruction It was a softer kind of ic was not my specialty I could barely control my powers at the best of times Fine control was pretty much beyond me

Still, I made the effort, because I was heartsick at the loss of Beezle and because I wasn’t about to let Gabriel disappear before I’d had the chance to figure things out between us And, well, because I couldn’t let Nathaniel be right about me I wanted to be more than a blunt instruinedwash of power that bleay froently settling on everything aroundthe fabric of ic with my mind, and was surprised to find that I could "see" Nathaniel’s power inside the net It was like finding a trace of heat on an infrared caic and identify its source Interestingly, Nathaniel seemed to feel my power settle over him