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Across the dojo, Eli all but growls I try not to laugh I shoot him a mock stern look and turn to meet my mentor

"Tristan de Barre, this is our newest and most human WUP member, Ms Riley Poe," Jake introduces, and looks at e the intro, Tristan de Barre graspsshade of sapphire, fix on mine "My pleasure, lady," he says, then brushes his lips over the top of my hand

It happens too fast

I really need to learn how to control this gift

The rooravity as a suffocating blackness ss ins

I’m him Tristan I concentrate hard, and this tih aIt’s a long-ago century, that eon It’s cold, and Tristan is shackled to the wall

Then, everything happens in fast-forward A man, trusted by Tristan Murder A curse that lasts centuries Tristan and his knights are spirits

"Lady? Is there aught aently I feel it, but I’

"Lady?"

I blink and focus on Tristan’s face nome in his arms He blinks

"Why are you unwell?" he asks Sapphire eyes narrow "Is Andorra tasking you overmuch?"

Tristan speaks in the weirdest of ways, yet I seelance at Jake Andorra, who is standing close by, then look back at Tristan "Yes He is"

A slow, sexy smile spreads over Tristan’s face "You remind me of ered the wings inked into h you’ve a few ht on s his finger over the bridge of his nose "Just here Now, then What did you see when I touched you?"

The others are standing close behind onhawk," I answer,I’d just witnessed "Your foster father hts Not sure which century but I knoas a helluva long tio" I cock my head "Sohow are you here now?" I poke his chest "You seehosts for centuries Are you ilance down at his thick thighs clothed in blackpantyhose under all those steel chains"

Tristan’s coaze fixes onhis head back and laughing

I stare at Jake

"Damn me, but you’re a witty wench," Tristan says "Aye My men and I were murdered by my foster father ’Twas in the fourteenth century We walked the earth as spirits after that Ghosts cursed, for nearly seven hundred years ’Twas not that long ago that my bride swept into my life and saved uess we all have a lot of catching up to do," I say "Where does that accent come from? Besides the fourteenth century?" I slish-French Norman accent you fancy As does my bride, Andrea"

I nod my approval

"When we sup I shall tell you all about it," Tristan pros in this chamber who still consume food, aye? Mortal food?"

"Riley definitely does," Noah says He walks up and sticks his hand out to Tristan, and the two shake "Noah Miles I’ve heard quite a lot about you from Andorra"

"And I, you," Tristan answers "I hear you have a fine ’sixty-nine Cale-handedly"

Noah’s eyes take on a shine that I’ve seen in otherbeings and human males alike It’s thatcar-shine A deep, weird love of iron and steel and whatever else with four tires "I did," Noah says "Smooth and fine"

See?

As Jake introduces Tristan around the rooainst the wall, cross my feet at the ankles, and watch It’s sort of a surreal scene I’m in an old manor, once a school for weird, freaky little kids with unexplained powers, and I’ht as ained another chance at mortality I’m part of an extermination team comprised of vah, where three nasty fallen angels can create hu monstrosities to apprehend innocent souls for their own selfish needs

And then there’s me Probably the mostnormal of the bunch