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"Nonsense," she said as she pulledReyes’s huevos rancheros and chatting I really wanted to say good-bye to Lewis, but I wasn’t sure he would coh They were both still grieving, but Francie seemed different Completely taken aback by what happened to Shayla

Erin had done a s and presented it to me in private It was of Reyes, and she’d captured his of the day

Lewis eventually dragged hiht Red, swollen eyes and a broken heart will do that to you I explained that enuinely happy for me despite his sorrow

"I just want you to know," I said to him, "Shayla told me she’d had the best days of her entire life with you She loved you and wanted you to kno great you are"

He lowered his head, and his shoulders shook a couple of tiot his e, and he broke down co into my hair It was okay I cried into his as well

When he couldn’t take it anymore, he tore away from me and went to work At one point, Francie tried to console hienuine concern fronored all of it Ironically, it seemed to crush her

"I never saw him," she said to me when I went to talk to her "And when I do finally see hiave h I didn’t always show it"

"I always liked you, too"

By the time Bobert walked in, aka, my uncle Bob, I couldn’t hold back I ran to him, threw ot an entireHe’d coordinatedwatched almost every second of the day Too bad none of those seconds hen Ian or Kuur had showed up We ht need to discuss the holes in his administrative skills

"I missed you, Uncle Bob," I said, and the sudden wetness in his eyes said he’d lued to his neck for the next half hour until it was tis and a promise froood-bye to Shayla, we left the Firelight Grill

We swung by for s Reyes had in the motel room, and then Reyes and I sat arm in arm in the back of the rented SUV He see?" I asked hiaze onwell"

I nodded That was enough It had to be For now, anyway

I nestled closer as we left the lovely town of Sleepy Hollow and wondered when I should tell him what my dad had found out Nalass frood just as Ja to do with me Only Lucifer, because he’s Lucifer, had ulterior od for hih to harness its energy and create his only son with it, Rey’aziel His plan all along had been to take over Reyes’s body, and with the power of a god at his fingertips, he could finally challenge the God Jehovah He would finally have a shot at taking over heaven

When Michael tried to kill ods of Uzan, very pleased with hiotten from Reyes That ould do it We would cast theod Lucifer used to create Reyes And of the three, the Razer, as he was known across the span of dimensions, was the most violent The most bloodthirsty

His name said it all, because that’s what he did He razed He demolished He destroyed And I was lass pendant in ht It could come in very handy one day