They aren't experts, but this is a rookie mistake. I didn't recognize the men with her, except that they held guns like they knew how, but I'd come to expect nothing less than professionalism from Raphael's people. How long does he think he looked away for? He says a few seconds. It was as if his power complemented the ardeur, as if it were a key to the lock, or maybe all of Belle's line were like this, that we could bring each other.
It didn't sound like Nathaniel's voice at all. His hair cascaded around him and spilled over the side of my body, pooling into my lap, covering Damian like a blanket, if a blanket could flow like liquid over a body. I suddenly couldn't breathe past the pulse in my throat. I stared at my hands like they belonged to someone else.
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