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Stephen’s eyes lost the opaque sheen and returned to their nor sensation slide overit was caused by a bodiless fallen angel with a touch of death

I exchanged a look with Jordan, as rubbing her bare arms She’d felt it, too

"That was seriously freaky," she said, her voice treht I was A human with supernatural intuition She sahat others didn’t She sensed the invisible She saw the unseen

I guess we did have way ht

"Too roaned "Make it stop Please, aze shot to hily "I hate what I’ve become I hate that I hurt her I’ I want it to end Please, killwith you?"

"The angel--" I grabbed her ar closer to him "He took Stephen’s will to live--just like what happened with Julie Bishop, do so to hurt hirab Stephen and they pulled hi restrained, used that super-gray strength of his to fight, shoving Connor with enough force that he flew back, landing hard on the paverabbed the back of Stephen’s shirt

"Kill ed

"Sorry It’s not that easy" Bishop slah to knock Stephen out He sent a look in my direction and raised a dark eyebrow "Too violent for you?"

I fought to breathe norh "I’ll allow it"

The barest of smiles moved across his lips "I’ve wanted to do that for a while"

"Go team," Kraven said drily "So what happens now? When he wakes up? Do we have a suicidal gray on our hands?"

Bishop shook his head "My bet is it passes The will to live, happiness in general, is not a measurable entity It’s an emotion, a mental state It’s possible when he wakes up he’ll be back to normal We’ll take him to St Andrew’s and monitor him"

Stephen was incapacitated Jordan and I had escaped Any broken bones had been healed

We were lucky It really could have gone much worse than this

"I’m so sorry It was my fault" Zach shook his head "I had him, but he slipped away from me"

Connor had pushed hi to worry about"