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He inclined his head "While I aer blind or helpless"
"Yep" She pretended to shake a pair of pom-poms "Yay for both of us"
"Is it the end of our story?" Gabriel asked softly
Nick got out of the car and stalked up to the front door of the safe house She could smell Korvel all around her, and while she kneasn’t inside she could track hiet started, to find his wouldn’tto spend the rest of eternity waiting at this fucking door like a stubborn Girl Scout with a wagonload of cookies to sell
Gabriel reached past her, using the key Benetta had given them to unlock the door before he ushered her inside He breathed in deeply, frowning as he sorted out the scents "Korvel was here So was one of the mortal females from the convent"
Nick took in the empty rooms "No blood or bodies" She started up the stairs, and on the second-floor landing input the code to open the door
What Korvel and his female companion had left behind in the apartment told Nick little about why they had been there, or where they had gone At least until she found the pile of clothes the wo the nun for sex" She handed the pullover to Gabriel "Good thing he’s iht to hell for that"
"Korvel would not…" He paused as he breathed in the arh a traveling case and pulled out a gray head veil and habit to show hiain, pal" She dropped the clothes and followed Korvel’s and the nun’s scents to theleft open in the bedroom "They both went out this way" She leaned out to study the footprints left on the ground belohere a wider man’s tread overlay the smaller, narrow impressions "Looks like she left first" Gabriel came to stand beside her, but he see of leavingher "You have been fora practiced, acco she was still human for ten years Not even Gabriel had known the truth, at least not until Elizabeth’s pet serial killer had attacked her She could deal with this "I’reed "You’re waiting until Richard gives me Ireland and I assemble o"
So he knew Maybe it was for the best "I’ I love you, and I kno important this is to you, but…no"
He nodded "I will tell Richard that he must choose someone else"
"Don’t do that" Nick lifted her hands to her head and then dropped them "Don’t placate me My issues are not yours, and they never were"
"I cannot agree," he said gravely "You areto talk to Alex" She started to pace around the rooh it herself She’ll knohat to do for you I ured out how to tranquilize the Kyn I’ to treat you for bond withdrawal Like some kind of antipsychotic It’s not that different fro a nervous breakdown, is it?"
"I do not believe that when mortals have a breakdown they lose control of their abilities, descend into insanity, or try to kill anything that h lord fro madness; perhaps she can save me as well" He sat down on the bed "While Alexandra attends tohappens tothe occasional crucified va this at all, are you?" When he shook his head, she sighed and dropped down beside hiets bad for me, I’ll come and visit We’ll spend the weekend in bed"
"I fear the occasional booty call will not be adequate" He regarded her sole separated fro her captivity in Ireland is because Korvel bonded her to him"
Nick almost fell off the bed "He what?"
"It was not intentional," Gabriel said "For a time after her reunion with Michael, Alex was torn between the two bonds Eventually she freed herself of Korvel’s influence, but the captain has never been the same" He picked up the nun’s pullover "That is why I find this so odd Richard has said that Korvel has not touched a woman since Alexandra left Ireland"
Nick chuffed out so keeps tabs on who his captain is boinking?"