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I pulled him to a stop in the foyer "Is that what you looked like in hell?" I asked Osh "One of those things?"

"Hell no," he said, offended He adjusted his top hat "I looked like me"

"Then ere they?"

"Demons"

"But you’re a demon"

"Let’s just say there are as many species of demons as there are animals on Earth Those are the lesser demons Kind of like worker bees"

"They were below you?" I asked "Below the Daeva?" I didn’t want to use the word Reyes used to describe theh embarrassed "No one was below the Daeva"

I stepped even closer, rain elevator and I kissed him --"

"You brought him back," he assured me

And maybe I had He’d fallen seven stories He’d been crushed and lay dying at the bottom All he’d asked for was a kiss, and when I kissed him, I’d felt an electricity run from me and into him A warift I was the grim reaper It wasthem back to life

"Fine Let’s say I did, but for a few seconds afterwards, I saw so very one Did I kill the dear, he is the demon inside him You cannot separate the two" This ti "Make no mistake, Charley, there is a part of hierous as Lucifer himself That part lives in all demons"

I raised my brows in question "Even in you?"

"Yes, even in aze to the floor "Especially inhonest" I looked up "And thank you for being here, Reyes," I whispered before we stepped out into the light But he didn’t respond, and for the second tiood news is they’re gone," I said to Father Glenn as alked toward hi "You weren’t in there five minutes"

"We’re super-efficient The bad news is, this faate to hell"