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Holly couldn’t think about her brothers and sister without e wave And when it came to Venom, she simply couldn’t think about it, full stop She’d done a terrible thing She’d brought him out of the self-protective cocoon in which he’d existed for three hundred and fifty years only to teach him that he should’ve stayed deep within it

The wo through the carapace he’d grow around hi, too hard, too much “Promise me,” she whispered

“What?”

“That you’ll love again”

A deadly stillness in his lamour, kitty”

Holly went to respond when a large angelic squadron flew right overhead She froze despite herself, only continuing forhen they didn’t so lance in her direction The sleek Abyssinian cats did, however, prowling up and hissing from a distance, but those cats were too far below the squadrons for the angels to hear and become suspicious

Her arhold through the open front entrance, her entire body taut enough to snap and the hard-faced guards on either side blind to their passage

His own ar

Hold, girl

Gritting her teeth at the aristocratic coht not to throw up Whatever part of Ura more and more a separate personality

The walk up the stairs to the mezzanine floor was an exercise in brazen confidence She and Venom passed within inches of a tall vampire so powerful she made the hairs rise on the back of Holly’s neck The well-built blonde woman frowned, stopped, and looked around, her hand on the hilt of her swordbefore finally shaking her head and continuing on down the stairs

Holly had been aware of Veno dead silent beside her, even as he reached back a hand to close it over the hilt of one of the two blades he wore on his back

Now, he relaxed his ready stance and they carried on without bloodshed

Only to enter thedirectly in front of the turret door The angel, his wings white streaked by gray, wasn’t looking at them, couldn’t see the her even from halfway across the floor

Venoainst her ear “He’s mine”

Re her arm with exquisite care once they were only a foot away froel, Holly tapped Venolael’s hand moved with predator speed to the hilt of his sword, his body reacting even before his mind understood what it was he’d seen Venom, however, had already mesmerized him

It wasn’t, Holly quickly realized, in any way an easy capture

Veno the coid line of his jaw, the locked fury of his muscles A vein pulsed in Veno every ounce of his power to force the angel tostep

There Just enough of a gap to get to the door

Breaking the lock with a pulse of power, Holly stepped inside Veno the door, he held the broken lock in position “I uard’s mind,” he mur to fool totally He’ll feel—”

The doorknob was tested right then from the other side Venom made sure it moved only as el stopped, as if satisfied the lock was as it should be But Venoency of their task Three painfully slow ain

Only after that test was over did Venoo ahead Holly had had to fight the co for the guard to be satisfied No way had she been about to leave Venoel who had to be a couple of thousand years old at least and powerful with it

But the defiance had taken everything she had