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"Did he love her?"
"Perhaps" His face said that that didn'tshe no longer knew him Is that love?"
"Don't you know?"
"I've seen love defined a thousand ways over the centuries There is no constant" He stared at her, his own face expressionless "If Illium loved his mortal, then he was a fool She's been dust for centuries"
"Heartless," she whispered, sensing the war had they stood here that the fading edge of night had turned to dawn? "Couldn't you have allowed him a lifetime with the woman he loved?"
"No" Sharp, clean lines, a face without mercy "For if one mortal knows, soon another will You have little concept of secrecy"
Elena saw in his absolute statement, her future "Not round if it comes to that, but don't you dare take my memories"
"You'd rather die?"
"Yes"
"So be it"
Her blood fired at the finality of those three short words, knowing he'd spoken them as a vow "You do realize that to kill ance of a erous he was "It'll break the ennui of age"
She snorted and glanced outside "Rain's stopped I'll go out, see if I can pick up a trail in case Uraht in Stupor"
"Eat first" Hesearch patterns-if he'd killed again, I would've heard by now"
Feeling jittery but knowing she'd do better with so quick"
"Will you begin your search at Michaela's?"
"Might as well If he is up and around, he'll probably co in a familiar pattern "Damn, where did I put it?"
"Here" Raphael picked her cell phone out of the clothing she'd thrown over the slance at the caller display was enough to make her stomach churn "Hello, Jeffrey" She wondered what her father would say if she told hiel Probably ask her to strike a deal while said archangel was befuddled with sex
Looking at the profile of Raphael's highly intelligent face as he switched on a laptop she hadn't noticed until then, she felt her lips curve in a tight grin "What is it?" The urge to hang up was a pounding need in her blood, but she'd gnaw off her own ar cowardice
"You need to coh the coer "Is soet tofroht you'd said what you needed to say to your father yesterday?"