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with him. Blindly, blissfully happy. Living in France—her favorite country—with her sister. Spending nearly every night wrapped in Kai’s strong embrace. He was the best lover she’d ever had. She could still admit that. But to her, it had been so much more than great sex. His every touch had sent her heart flying. She’d gotten him to smile and laugh; to let his wings down, as she’d sometimes said. The warrior would take a back seat, bringing out a side to him he’d once told her he hadn’t thought he’d had.
    Not that she’d never seen the warrior side of him.
    For as gentle and thoughtful as Kai was with her, he was equally as protective. In the beginning, he’d practically threatened to kill a man for something stupid that she couldn’t remember now.
    “That wasn’t very angelic of you,” Belle had said after the man walked off.
    With his arm possessively around her waist and his lips beside her ear, Kai’s reply had melted her heart. “I’m not just an angel with you. I’m a man. And I don’t share.”
    Belle had only laughed, but she suspected that was when she’d fallen in love with him. When he’d distinguished the difference and discarded it at the same time. When she’d realized he truly didn’t care—not about the stupid discrimination against her race, or the laws of his that forbade their love. She’d handed over her heart with a smile and, later, admitted to wanting to spend her eternity with him.
    Tears stung the backs of her eyes at the bittersweet memories.
    That had been the best year of her life. Just one year, but it trumped the two-hundred and some others she’d lived easily. Even now, after what he’d said to end it. Even after what had happened a few short weeks later, when she’d fallen so low that she’d prayed for him and wanted to dive into a dry riverbed when he hadn’t responded.
    But you pulled through all that. And she’d done it by herself. With only the strength she found in her soul.
    Her heart may have been forever shattered, but she was not defeated. She was not dead. She was no longer lost. This was her final test, and it was a test she would pass.
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    He was too alert to sleep that night. His mind swam with too many different thoughts to let him rest. Instead, he leaned his back against the wall beside the window, directly across from the locked front door, and waited patiently for sunrise. Belle and Gwen had tucked themselves into their respective beds; Belle hadn’t even glared at him since her shower. Gwen seemed to be feeling better, and they’d set up a battle plan to leave the area in the morning. Belle said Gwen was well enough for travel. Gwen wanted to go see her brother “one last time.”
    “I told you, no more of that,” Belle had said firmly as soon as the words were past Gwen’s lips. From this, Kai deduced that Belle intended to heal away a demonic curse.
    He scoffed silently. Well, if anyone could. He’d always recognized the strength in her healing power. And despite the pain it delivered to his heart to see her, and her resentment of him, on a regular basis, he was proud of her for finally accepting herself. When they’d met, she’d been playing human alongside her younger sister, thinking she had to hide to survive. If nothing else, then, he could at least be glad that he may have helped her learn another way to live. One he hoped was better.
    In an effort to pull his focus back to the mission at hand, Kai dragged his thoughts around to Creed. That was the only name he knew the demon by, though certainly not the name the demon had been born with. More importantly, though, it hadn’t been too long since he’d last encountered the vile male. Had it been only a month, perhaps two, since he’d attempted to catch Creed during a battle with that human-loving demon, Darr?
    How the hell does he keep escaping in time?
    Sure, at night it made sense. Demons could travel through shadows, and the entire world—or, at least, the time