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“Wrong,” Darien insisted before he drained his glass With a slight wince fro sensation in his throat, he added, “At this point, Jade knoe’re watching her and that violates the law I laid down”

“I suspect she knew that before this evening, when I was the only one following her,” he ad from time to time to listen for footsteps”

“She wouldn’t hear any, nor would she see you You’re a wraith You can take male form,” as he did now, “or you can simply disappear Become an apparition that blends into thin air”

“I still could have been the one to tip her off,” Morgan further contended

Darien shook his head Fury tore through hile such an easy quest

Then again, no It hadn’t been easy at all

Darien had coo, and he’d been so entranced by her, he’d studied up on the people she was close to and had learned as much as he could about her

He knew she’d once had a relationship with Michael Hadley that had gone sour So tonight, when he’d moved in for a kiss… Darien had flinched and his horse, Thunder, had been inclined to let hi to anotherafter in the first place

One, she was e around hi the raven-haired beauty was

Two, he had no idea what sort of power she possessed or how she’d obtained it, but so mystical built within her He had the keen ability to sense it, though he had no idea what the budding strength was or froan had already confirmed that

Granted, Darien had discovered that Jade did have a close friend orshiped ancient pagan gods and their rituals Yet Lisette Bordeaux had been bound by law not to practice any sort of witchcraft This had been Darien’s ruling, when he’d instituted the regulation no demon could harm a human

In his al for de it i spells against the iht prevail

Admittedly, the wars had caused too much destruction and had altered not only the face of the planet, but civilization as everyone—human and demon alike—had known it in the first decade of the 2000s

Inthe last sweep of near-human annihilation The intent of the wars had been to reduce the nunificantly, not completely wipe out the mortal population The humans still had their uses But modern advance Darien supported, leaving this new society with baser provisions that were essentially throwbacks to the 1800s, a simpler time he preferred

Darien, who’d turned two hundred years old back in 2016 when the first war broke out, didn’t h-tech world He was old-fashioned that way