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The recently emancipated vampire with quick dark eyes and dark hair had been cheeky in setting up shop so near Raphael’s stronghold, but he’d quickly created a nu down to grab a pretzel before flying back up

Today, she diverted frooing to try to kidnap her with an entire angelic squadron within earshot of a scream; hair daless balconies relatively lon on the Tower A blue-winged angel with eyes of extraordinary gold and black hair tipped in blue—Illium—hovered in front of them

Post-co seen the saht multiple times since she’d moved into the Tower The latter fact made her parents so proud they dropped it “casually” into any conversation with even a faint bearing on the matter

Oh, our Mia? She’s a doctor now And our Holly works for the Tower She took her brothers to visit her apartet toabout it

“My first customer of the day!” The pretzel seller beamed at Holly when she stopped in front of his cart “Had to start late today—trouble with my cart, wouldn’t you know it, but here you are before I even finish my setup” His hands reaseproof paper “You get a free pretzel for being a good omen”

Holly accepted the gift with a grin, reive his first customer of the day a fifty percent discount “Ready for the post-training rush?” That entire angelic squadron would soon descend on him

“It never ends, cutie” A wink “It never ends”

Holly bit into the soft, chewy pretzel as she waved good-bye and continued on toward the Legion building Stopping halfway, she gave her dad a call to touch base, exchanged coht and five foot nine, weren’t actually so little anyed herloved the text app on her phone

Is your hair still a rainboas the reply

Yes, Mom

You have such lovely black hair, Holly I just don’t understand you girls

I love you, too

Her mom sent back five rows of heart emojis

Laughing, Holly pocketed her phone She’d talk to Mia later in the day, as her sister had done a night shift for her first day on the job and was probably asleep right now

She h she had no doubts the Legion atching They sat like gargoyles on buildings a lot of the tiot they were there until they opened their batlike wings and flew off

“H If it had once had doors, those doors had long ago been sealed up The bottom three floors had no exits or entrances that she could see, and were covered in green fro outward from the wall itself, as if the walls had somehow been turned into vertical patches of soil

She took another bite of the pretzel as she considered her options Before she could put her plan into action, however, her skin prickled But when she looked around, no one was there

So she looked up

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Venoh up that she couldn’t see anything of his features, especially with theher vision—but she kneas him The way he stood, the way his suit so impeccably fit his body, it was pure Venom And she knew he had his eyes on her; the rainbow hair was pretty and itin

Holly thought about waking up on his stone floor, of the honey in her veins after their insane sparring session, and knew that way led trouble Dangerous, deadly trouble washed in sin She made herself look away, forced her ion building