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“Thanks,” he said, lifting his head from Illium’s wrist after about ten seconds “Janvier toldflavored premium blood now” It always struck him as hysterical that the Guild Hunter had fallen into a business that catered to a strictly vampiric clientele

“It’s one of the hot new businesses in Manhattan, according to Ih his hair, the blue-tipped black strands falling back in place around his face afterward “You should go visit one of their blood cafés,” he said with a straight face belied by the a publicity boost a the fashionable crowd”

Venom snorted, not about to become a poster boy for flavored blood What the fuck?

“I think our guest is fully compos mentis” Dmitri rose to his feet

So did Venoe in a casual display of brutal strength They gave Kenasha the courtesy of allowing hih it was a dubious courtesy at best, since the angel looked scared stiff of the precipitous drop el, the other man should’ve been far more comfortable here than either Venom or Dmitri

Then again, his wings appeared evenThe muscles and tendons drooped, like those of a s cut “Are you sure you’re not sick?” Venoels

“If I am, it’s because of Daisy’s blood,” Kenasha whined “She did so to me”

“Are any of your angelic friends displaying sis?”

Kenasha paled under the ure fra of sleep “No I didn’t tell any of them about her blood I’m the only one who drank from her” He ran shaky hands down his front in a futile effort to smooth the wrinkles in the bruise-colored velvet of his ornate topcoat It was e closures

Venom wondered what Holly would think of Kenasha’s sartorial choice

D the baton, since Venom knew more about the situation The problem was that Kenasha couldn’t aze orse than the general fear that clung to hiel could lie his way out of this, not with Veno face

“Tell us exactly how you found Daisy”

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Kenasha repeated the story of rescuing Daisy froht I’d be a hero,” he whispered “Like the other people who helped during the Falling I thought if she was important, I’d be able to tell everyone I’d rescued her”

Venom wanted to slap the self-obsessed prick “What did she tell you about how she ended up in the river?”

Kenasha shifted his feet And Dmitri spoke with silken menace “It seems you’d prefer to have this conversation with the sire”

The angel looked so horrified at the idea that it was corim amusement There weren’t el of New York Venom had never understood that—he knew Raphael burned with power, but he wasn’t capricious or cruel without reason

Yes, he ruled with a steel hand However, that hand didn’t get involved in the petty business of people’s lives

“No, no” Kenasha tugged at the white ruffles poking out of the top of his coat; it was a miracle he didn’t choke in the froth “Daisy said she was attacked by an angel who picked her up and flew her across the city to a warehouse She escaped fro up in the river—she couldn’t remember the details of how I think she was probably hallucinating and disoriented because of the drugs We all know angels don’t get blood-glutted”

Illiuone predator-still halfway through Kenasha’s ue

“When?” Venom asked softly

Face stark white, the other ht Uram in the sky”

His ignorance of how the two events were connected wasn’t a surprise The Tower had ed to keep the details of Uram’s unprecedented descent into insanity and roup of people The world did not need to know that the vastly powerful beings who ruled the madness