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three men in the other room.
    “Easy, Axis. We know that you need them as much as we do.
    We’re all just very tired and need some rest. We flew quite a ways today.” As usual, Jade provided logic for the group. Jade was quiet, but he got shit done.
    Axis sighed. This was going to be an uphill battle no matter which way he looked at it. He just hoped when he got to the top that his mates weren’t going to run down the other side. He glanced up at his men, who were following his example and stripping off their uniforms. Everyone looked beat.

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    “I’ll sleep on the floor,” he declared, taking a position by the closet. Maybe things would look brighter in the morning.

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    Marius scrubbed the flesh on his arms until the skin was angry, red, and raw. He just wanted to rub away the entire day and everything that had gone wrong in it. The “happiest” day of his life was now officially the most fucked-up day of his life. His marriage had become contingent on him accepting the everlasting presence of four angels who were everything he wasn’t, honorable, considerate, and downright fucking annoying. If he were honest with himself, which he had no intention of being, he would say that his lovers deserved to have men as high as the Elite Guardians as their own. But he was selfish, and he couldn’t and fucking wouldn’t give them up.
    “Still more concerned with your needs than those of others.
    Marius, have you learned nothing since I banished you to Earth?” The sound of his old archangel’s voice made him freeze in his frantic washing. What the hell was Archangel Uriel doing in his bathroom? He pulled back the shower curtain and found his old boss reclining against the double sinks. His gorgeous tan-skinned and dirty-blond-haired self looked right at home there. He was dressed in human street clothes. A gray T-shirt and a pair of ratty-looking blue jeans completed his outfit.
    “Uriel?” he asked.
    “And your IQ dropped to boot. Damn, boy, what have you been doing since you lost your job?” Uriel asked, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
    “Trying to survive while getting shot at by Michael’s nutjobs, avoiding hunters, and making money. Other than that, I’ve been smelling the fucking flowers,” Marius snapped before he thought better of it. His white-blond hair stuck to his face, and he pushed it Angelic Union
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    angrily to the side. “Did you know what those pricks were going to do on my wedding day?”
    Uriel shrugged. “Those Elites were going to come to you one way or another. I sent them. Perc and Desc were just the vehicles I used to deliver them.”
    “Trying to get me damned, boss?” Marius asked, a feral grin lighting up his face. If he were going to go down for good, he was going to go out with a fucking bang. He could already imagine getting out of the shower, getting his fallen weaponry, and sneaking into their room. It would be as easy as one, two, three.
    Uriel reached out and smacked the side of his head, sending it crunching into the tile of the shower. “You idiot. Of course not. You made a mistake a long time ago and needed to learn why it was a mistake. Your nephilim have taught you that lesson well.” It was true. Before, when Marius had been a hunter himself, he’d hated nephilim with a passion and enthusiasm that bordered on sheer madness. Meeting Erik and Levi had changed all that. He’d learned to love again.
    “But not to trust again,” Uriel said, reading his mind. “I didn’t send the Elites here to punish you, Marius. I sent them here to give you what you need.”
    “And what is that?” Marius asked, rubbing the place on his head that had collided with the shower.
    “Redemption.”
    The word was a carrot that was dangled effectively. Marius’s heart skipped a beat. Real redemption? He would finally be worthy of his lovers, finally be able to make them proud, finally be able to protect them as he wanted to. He’d known fallen that had waited