Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.

it seems Montgomery could not help himself when it came to this vase. I'm afraid he has a weakness for beautiful things and has been known to relocate an item if he feels it is not being accorded the proper appreciation. Once he 'relocated' an ancient sculpture from the home of another archangel.

Remember that,” he groaned. “And tell everyone you know.

Taking a sip of the hot chocolate he'd made her, she met his gaze, those eerie eyes of endless black impenetrable, unreadable. "Max?" "Yes?" "Will you remember me?" His heart broke into a thousand pieces. "Always.

You don't fear me," he said now. She wasn't stupid enough to lie. "I'm petrified. But I figure you didn't make me come all this way just so you could push me off the roof.

An hour of your life is worth more than a thousand people to me.

I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.