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“We keep saying that, but no brilliant ideas have co fair and I know it, but I can’t stop I shrug out fro to wash the blood off” I hold up a hand when all three of them tense “Alone I need to think”

It’s only when I step beneath the water nearly hot enough to scald thatproperly I close my eyes and let the worries and e victory, and one that shouldn’t have been possible if my father had his way He’ll have paraded them before the compound the way he always did in the past with his conquests Losing the the one to steal them away is a power play that will help establish e to kill him

What they’re asking for feels impossible, but they don’t have the saht it, er than life in mymy fear control me and listen

But the tiain I sht feel halfway human, but I’m not human at all There has to be some way I can use that If the seraphim were so feared as a whole, there has to be a reason why Surely it’s not just because when they have sex with vampires, they can bond with them There must be more

There has to be

The men aren’t in the bedroom, which is just as well We ruined another bed I stare at the bloodstains and grimace Someday, when this is all over and we’ve settled so to have to invest in plastic sheets on the bed we have sex in and have a strict no-biting rule in the bed we sleep in I shake e, it was fully stocked when I arrived Once dressed, I follow the faint tug of the bond downstairs to the kitchen

They all look up as I descend the stairs, their expressions varying degrees of wary Malachi is the one that approaches me He’s always the one who takes that first step, and I’ll love him forever because of it

I clear my throat “I’m sorry I shouldn’t have snapped I’ to help”