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His grip tightened on my hands as he studiedpull to drugs, don’t you?" he asked

I nodded and he shook his head, unhappy

"I can see it And you’ve got a double whaenetics That’s got to be hard"

"I’ht pull, but my mind knows better"

"Good That’s what I like to hear"

"All right, back to the story," I said, gripping his fingers

"Yep, this is where it gets good When I saw Mariantha she hispering to that human woman like a mother with a feverish child Nobody in the dealer’s house cared when I picked the lady up and took her That is, except her guardian angel, my Mariantha" He chuckled "She sahat I was, but didn’t register who I was at first She went apeshhh--u to protect her hunized me"

He said the last sentence with such adoration that our eyes watered at the exact sa hands again

"Mariantha and I took the human woman to a hotel and cleaned her up It took a whole day for her to coone Her body was ruined and her soul was barely hanging on We both knew that if the lady died, Mariantha would have to escort her soul to the afterlife Mariantha wouldn’t be allowed to coain So, hoping for the best, she cliht had done since Old Testa on to every word

"The huht her; she moved easily aside It took almost three days to detox and heal the body It was a lot for Mariantha to deal with her first time in physical form It was hard to watch I had to force her to eat and drink She fought h And when her ain, it was like it’d always been, only different For the first time eren’t just souls; ere a man and woman overcome with physical attraction and well, that’s how you ca"

I blushed and he looked down, shamefaced

"I shouldn’t have let it happen," he said "Not that I’ But in all my years as a demon, I’d been careful not to father any children of ht to ht away that you ith her We couldn’t help but be happy We knee didn’t have long together, so we cherished every single second I left her side only once, to er I couldn’t let theh the other guardian angels about one last angelic Nephilim We didn’t knohere else to turn"

"Wait, what do you el of light, probably a guardian angel I’m not sure of her exact story"