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“Does everyone?”

“Know about your demon side?” she finished The ers “Not yet It’s only on a need-to-know basis They all think you’ve been part of a special training prograram”

I nodded Good to know not everyone hated me Yet

“And Gabe?”

I wasn’t sure if I could handle seeing his had ended between us My body ached for his touch I wanted nothing ht up with that smile reserved only for ainst his Just the thought of it brought heat to es I deserved Until this dark entity inside ether That was that Seeing him would only make it harder on the both of us

“He’s on patrol,” Ashley whispered “With Ada”

I breathed a sigh of relief One less thing to worry about

The girls ledhall A few dozen circular tables dotted the rooular tables loaded up with a tantalizing selection of food My ht of them The scent of the buffet hit my nostrils and I moaned The aroma of every herb and spice danced in oods for dessert They hadn’t exactly starvedcorowled at the sight of it

“Good to have you back,” a voice said behind me “We orried Manuel had tied you up in the forest somewhere”

I turned to seepast her elbows and dozens of aveup his eyes They’d just becoed warriors this suatekeepers, responsible for their own patrols in the forest tea with ferals My heart had ached for them, feverish orry Compared to many of the Nephilim in this room, they were only babies Could they handle themselves out there?

If one of theive myself

“Nah, but he’s definitely a task master” I sucked in lad you’re not under this thumb”

“I thank the stars each and every night” Bree’s lips curled into a sh action as it is, with patrols increasing Not sure I could keep up a rigorous training schedule with all the fighting we do during the day”

I frowned, picking up a white dining plate absent bad out there, despite the fact that I hadn’t come close to the Hell Gate in over a week My mother had to be responsible for it She was evil, after all And all her talk about releasing the Prince of Hell wasn’t reassuring

With allthe demon inside my head, I hadn’t allowed myself much time to think about the return of my dead mother Maybe it was a defensive ht of her made me want to vomit That was a problem I’d have to leave to Luke He’d known her better than ht he did