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Seth had been on the streets long enough that there was no helping him with a touch, as I’d been able to do with Bishop up until tonight His mind had been per froht

"Show s I had to see to understand To believe Even when h proof to knohat he really was

He raised a dark eyebrow as if ae of his dirty shirt to show the thick, dark lines of his bat’s-wing-like imprint--the imprint of a demon My stoel I would take it as a compliment that you assumed me to be one if I was fond of that particular breed of creature But there’s only been one angel I could ever tolerate Only one who could tolerate me in return"

All I could do was stare at him

Jordan fished into her purse to pull out her phone Roth snatched it out of her grip and sround

She shoved hie an inch "You creep! That was brand-new!"

"I don’t care"

"You owe me for a new phone"

"Billattention to her, not to Roth, either My attention was fully fixed on the demon in front of me, the one I’d assueljust like Bishop One lost and abandoned by Heaven with no chance to return No one to help him No one to care

He was an exiled deirl," Seth said to me "You already know the truth, don’t you?"

No, please It can’t be

I couldn’t have been this blind

Then Seth hs, his back hunching over With alar black lines ers

"What’s happening to you?" I asked, breathless

"It’s a little sooner than I’d anticipated" He laughed, a low, pained sound deep in his throat "Oh, who a? This is a lot sooner than I’d anticipated, but sometimes, beautiful star, you must make adjustments when necessary Quick like a bunny Race to the end so everything can be tied up in a nice, shiny bo, tonight It will all happen tonight whether I like it or not"

There was that nized aze e outline of the hospital "When I was first exiled, I woke up in the shadow of St Edward’s I took it as a sign that this here in I wasn’t like the others, I didn’t accept that this was an end and that I had tomy power for all eternity There are always other choices, you just have to knohere to look and be willing to do just about anything to achieve your goals That hospital was my new birthplace And inspired by that hospital, I was reborn as soaze to the tall building with its glowing sign like a beacon in the distance