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She shook her head again "Not for ht on that state to place it within any context that would explain what or who she truly was He decided to go straight for broke, as he’d always been a ga man

"Sunshine, be honest with me, okay? Are you really human?"

She pressed both hands to her face "Please don’t ask ain Don’t pushrent the sky, throwing thelimpse of her extreme dismay, a rivulet of daain It had to be a sudden storht sky had been clear only a few minutes earlier Only, no storm, not even in the low country, caht flashed, a peal of thunder vibrating the glass all around them Sunny turned from him, head bowed

Every emotion inside of him was at war--he yearned to coate her Instead, he found hi his arainst his chest, he simply held her

"You don’t have to tell me," he whispered in her ear "It’s okay We can take our tiht"

He’d not prohtever

Sunny stilled in his aro a little slow, scoundrel?"

He stroked her hair, s, and then kissed the top of her head "Not norhed He shouldn’t have pushed her again, not even subtly Turning in his arainst his chest "I wish I were," she said wistfully

He angled hisspeared the darkness, see to suspend between theed figure on the other side of the glassstaring at Sunny with eyes as bright as ainst his chest protectively, wanting to shield her

"There’s so more comfortable in his arms Now, of all the damned times

"Mmm-hmm?" she inquired sweetly, eyes closed

The creature shifted its headlight gaze and fixed it hard on Jamie It was i as that glance was Jamie pressed his eyes shut instinctively That was no deed Spartan

It was, however, a kind of being that Ja in the fiercest spiritual battles

"Sunny, I really need to know It’s i a breath "Your secretYou wouldn’t happen to be an angel, would you?"

Chapter Four

Kiel Her heavenly supervisor Of course he’d come, and hadn’t wasted any time about it Sunny blocked Ja in front of hi Jamie--not physically, since he dwarfed her--and not froo Fast," she warned hilass wall that separated her frolass, a tiny sliver of a veil between holy wrath and Jaht now That creature looks pissed"

"He’s very angry, yes"

"Because I kissed you"

"Because I disobeyed" She tried to keep her voice calto hurt you? Are you an angel, too?"

She glanced back at Jaht: I’et hurt or blinded just by being near hier "He’s a whole other level, okay? He’s serious stuff, and you can’t be in his presence And whatever you do, don’t look into his eyes!"

"You’re trying to protect me?" He sounded shocked, bewildered, and all the while he kept gaping at Kiel Kiel, who, at any lass all around them with his fury and power

"Jaazebo and started shoving him out onto the path

"Get on back to the house And please, please don’t tell Kateor Shay Anyone Please keep my secret forher hand "I don’t want you to get hurt because of what I did," he whispered

"Then leave me"