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over my shoulder, out the window, but could not see street level. Did she wait for me? Didn't the hero deserve a kiss? Or had Coco wisely fled?
    For a moment of utter wimpy wistfulness, I thought I saw her bright green eyes flash at me. And then I blinked, and the sexy princess turned cat burglar was running toward me. Her eyes weren't as happy to see me as I'd hoped, rather wide and unbelieving, actually.
    She deftly avoided the angel ash and slammed into me, setting me off balance, so I clung to her. Every cut on my skin screamed. My right leg, which I'm sure was broken, buckled. I went down, and she fell with me, until we kneeled before each other, embracing.
    I buried my face in her hair. Rain-fresh summers and the sensual heat of her skin chased back the pain. Chocolate heartbeats pulsed against my chest.
    She clasped my head and whispered something that sounded like, "I'm so glad you're alive."
    No one had ever been glad that my heart beat. People usually ran when they saw me coming. Coat me in a quart of my own blood, and I'd really send them running.
    Yet Coco clung as if she had found something long ago lost. And I felt a piece being fit into some greater scene. Her life. My life. We fit together oddly enough.
    Damn, I wanted to make this work. Could the pieces stay together?
    "I'm getting blood all over you, love. Purple, even. Guess the angel blood mixed with my own."
    "I don't care." She wouldn't let go.
    Fine with me. Her warmth worked a balm to my wounds, and I could feel the skin knit closed, healing rapidly as vampires are wont. It sizzled a bit. Might have gotten traces of angel blood in my system, but I didn't feel the big kaboom looming.
    "I talked to the angel's muse outside."
    "What? His muse? Was here?"
    "Yes, walking by. Must be why the angel was in the area—he followed the lure of her sigil. She was itching it like a crazy lady. I told her everything, and gave her my sister's phone number. I explained she's still not safe even though this Fallen is dead. He is dead, right?"
    I toed the crystal dust. "That's about as dead as dead gets. Two muses in close proximity? London is overflowing with them."
    "Let's get out of here."
    "Works for me. But first—" I tugged out the folded plastic zip bag I kept tucked in a back pocket and handed it to Coco "—hold this. I'm not leaving without what I've come for."
    I scooped up the heavy, glittering angel remnants into the bag. It looked like diamonds, and had the weight of precious gemstones, but held no value for any person unless they were tracking a Nephilim.
    "That stuff is gorgeous," she said. "What is it?"
    "Angel ash. The only means to kill a Nephilim."
    "You plan on killing Nephilim? I thought you wanted to prevent Nephilim from being conceived?"
    "I do, but I can't be in all places at once. And I'm no professional angel slayer. Tonight was a fluke. I only won because I had this." I patted the blade at my hip. It had been my first angel-slaying mission. "And the Anakim tribe is huge. I can’t stop them from trying to create a Nephilim. This stuff is like an insurance policy. It can be doled out to all who may need it."
    "Like my sister?"
    "It'll prove a might more effective than the halo, I'll wager."
    I shoved the last bit of ash in the bag and followed Coco's fingers as we sealed the zip bag. I admired her enthusiasm, yet knew her real feelings were darker than the positive front she wore. Her sister would ever be in danger. There were dozens of Fallen, and the Anakim were summoning more to earth daily. The only thing that could kill them was a demon blade like I owned, or a real Sinistari demon, of which there were only about a dozen.
    The future looked bleak. But I wanted to be a part of the solution. I couldn't do it myself. But I didn't want to endanger this precious woman.
    "What's this?" She collected the black feather that had been uncovered beneath the ash. A splay of her fingers moved the delicate vanes. "It's made of iron? And