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“I’d prefer that, in fact But she does see periods when she’s injured”
“I’ll leave my visits to your discretion then”
The doctor collected his bag Darien experienced a moment of hesitancy as his concern for Jade’s condition caused him to wonder whether he and Sheena could help nurse her back to health this ti than with the broken hand and wrist
But as her breathing turned steady with sleep, and was not as labored as it had been previously, he said, “Please coive her some time”
“Very good”
Darien saw Schaeffer out of the cottage and then noticed the bottle of wine on the end table in the living roolasses in her tiny kitchen and poured a healthy ae Jade’s progress
The laceration on her chest still appeared angry and red, despite the stitches He couldn’t see if she’d ainst the pillows From the way she occasionally squirmed on the bed, he deduced not
He sipped his wine and tried to get his anxiety under control When he felt he could speak calmly and rationally—without his deepest fears of whether she’d live or die lacing his tone—he leaned close to her and spoke It was a ga to help her recover, like every other chance he’d taken along that vein But perhaps his voice …
“I told you I’ve regretted the result of the wars,” he said in a low tone “But I didn’t tell you why”
He took a deep breath, then let it out slowly “My grandfather atteainst the hun, however, eventually passed without any success toward his mission Centuries later, my father felt he was in the position to take up the quest, when settlers came to North America and the continent wasn’t so heavily populated with humans”
He sipped before continuing
“Unfortunately, transporting demons from other continents to this one in order to build an ar back then The vampires couldn’t resist the human blood on the ships that crossed the ocean The shifters couldn’t survive the captivity And other de undetected There werethose tier ships eventually carried priests on board to perform exorcisms”
Co across the Atlantic from Europe in the mid-1800s had been difficult for him as well
“The dey with all the disjointed factions and their idiosyncrasies Not to mention their various politics that couldn’t be reconciled or coalesced Each group had their own idea of the power they purportedly possessed and how significant they thought their kind was Unity had been impossible”
With a low groan over the dee, so to speak, around my two-hundredth birthday I studied the potential of the de time and it suddenly clicked into place for me I realized that every type of demon also requires what humans thrive upon—leadership Whether the doreed upon or not, every species looks to a leader to guide theether”