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Fear surges throughcompared to what he is now I try to s past the need to screa to trap you”

“And yet you are here with her”

“Not for that!” I can’t guarantee Grace isn’t here for that She’s overly interested in Azazel and has good reason to be She wants answers about her mother Would she try to kill him, even if it meant I failed?

I don’t know

“Do you knohat I do to people who try to cross me?”

I can’t htide that washes away all rational thought “Stop!”

Fla out ofas I’ve suh to break the unrelenting dark I get a gli behind Grace,from either side of its head

No, no it

Him

Azazel

My flao out, but this tiht at the bedside table flickers on, weakly doing battle with the shadows seeather in every corner of the roo his hu at the space between the ends of our beds, his hands in the pockets of his slacks His eyes flare red, not quite s under wraps “Explain yourselves Quickly”

There’s no explicit threat tacked onto the end of that sentence, but there doesn’t need to be It hangs in the air, thicker than smoke

I exchange a look with Grace She see to reassure me If she attacked Azazel, neither of us will survive the next fewfoolish,” I snap

Her gaze flicks my way and she tenses “You took my mother”