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half angel, half mortal children grew up in the mortal world, experienced emotions while their angel parent watched and manipulated.
    Then once ascended, those emotions would be taken from the Halflings and absorbed by their angel-sires. That was a father-daughter bonding experience Ginny planned on avoiding.
    And the reason she had avoided romantic entanglements and sex. “I can’t. I won’t fall in love and damn Eli to a life he doesn’t want.”
    Eli would grow to hate her. And Ginny would be a shell of herself, all her emotions gone.
    She couldn’t bear the thought of it.
    The sparks on her father’s wings turned to ice crystals. “You’d rather damn him to an eternity as a shade?”
    Horror flooded her body, and bile burned her throat. Ginny locked her fingers around the edge of the bar. “You can’t do that. You’re an angel!”
    “For humans, not witch hunters. I can force him to kill a witch and go rogue. Or just kill him outright and cast his soul into the between worlds before Wing Slayer can stop me.”
    “And what about your god? Don’t you think He might notice an angel committing murder?”
    “God’s too busy to care what happens to a single witch hunter.” Blood pounded in her ears and rage made her dizzy. She knew her father didn’t bluff. He would destroy Eli. He was blackmailing her with her love for her brother. What choice did she have?
    None.
    Because her father, like other very old angels, had to regain their human understanding or they would be cast to earth as Fallens. Ginny, and her emotions, were vital to her father’s survival as an angel.
    She glared at Lance with violent hatred churning in her guts. “You win. I’ll find some man and screw him.”
    His blue eyes narrowed, looking like arctic chips. “That’s not the assignment. There’s only one man that makes your emotions react.”
    Shit. She should have realized he’d know—even with his numbed state, he could see still the flares of her emotions in her aura.
    Especially after that kiss she and Ram had shared.
    So he knew there was only one man Ginny wanted. One man she dreamed about. Wished for.
    Even the sound of his voice stirred her desire.
    The one man who, if Ginny let herself fall for him, would have the power to drive her to emotional extremes. Hell, just his rejection of her friendship had hurt enough that she’d done something reckless and stupid—she’d asked him for a kiss.
    And that kiss had seared her mind, body and soul.
    Her chest squeezed at the memory. Maybe she could lie, convince him it was another she had feelings for.
    “Ramsey Virtos, the witch hunter,” Lance said, closing off any hope.
    Ginny wouldn’t let this happen. Couldn’t. Thinking fast, she shook her head. “It won’t work.
    He refuses to come near me now. And he’s got his own problems with his runaway soul mirror.” The bar lights shook and sparked. “If you want your brother to keep his soul, then you’ll do whatever it takes to make Ram forget his soul mirror long enough to get involved with you.
    Make it happen.”
    Ginny was out of options. She had to save Eli’s soul and find a way to free him from her father’s clutches later. As for her?
    She was doomed.
    A wooden feeling settled heavily over her. Ram wasn’t an easy man to manipulate. “There’s only one way I can think of.” A wave of misery weighed her down even more.
    Lance’s gaze studied her. “I’m listening.”
    “Let me call Ram and get his help in freeing the witches being held as blood slaves.” Ram would rescue the witches, and that was the one saving grace to the treachery she was inflicting on him. “Being around that much witch blood will incite his curse,” she said, forcing herself to explain in order to gain his permission since he’d already knocked her unconscious to keep her from telling anyone. “And I’ll be there, offering sex to help him.” Bile burned her throat at what she was doing. She wouldn’t let Ram go rogue; she