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disappear. That information would surface in its own

time, and she’d pay the piper then.

Calliope’s brow furrowed. “And you never thought

I might need to know more? What if Xaphan’s concubines had reached her first? You should have contacted

me immediately.”

“She couldn’t. She was dying.” Dagan’s voice interrupted them, and from the way Calliope jerked to attention, Roxy was fairly certain that she hadn’t sensed

his return any better than Roxy had.

She remembered Calliope’s past description of soul

reapers:…you would never have known he was there.

Not unless he wanted you to. They can practically move

between molecules, disturbing nothing. Not air. Not

sound. Not light. They are there, but not there.

So very true.

“Must you sneak around?” Roxy snapped.

“Sneak around?” Dagan looked completely flummoxed. “You said five minutes. It was five minutes.”

She sighed. He really had no clue how eerie it was

to have him simply appear at will. “People like to have

a bit of warning when someone arrives.”

He shrugged. “I’m here. There’s your warning.”

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Great.

Calliope was regarding them as though they were a

foreign species. “What do you mean, she was dying?”

she asked Dagan, her distaste at speaking directly to

him apparent in every word.

For some reason, Roxy didn’t want him to answer.

Everything that had happened for the past few days—

being nursed by Dagan, protected by him, drinking his

blood, making love with him—it all felt too personal,

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