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Get through it-together. Get through this mess of a life together. Through this mess of a world.

“ Do you understand?” His voice was frozen. Utterly calm. The voice of the Umbra Mortis.

“ I’ve got you,” “ Sweetheart, I’ve got you.”

“ Breathe,”” You can do it. We can get through this.”

“ I can’t fucking handle myself, Quinlan. Not if you might be in danger.” ~ Hunt

“ It sucks,” “ It sucks that everyone just… moves on, and forgets. They expect me to forget. But I can’t.” “ I can’t forget.” “ But the world moved on.”~ Bryce

“ You don’t speak to her, you don’t go near her, you don’t even fucking think about her again.” “ Do you understand me.”~ Hunt

Hunt
“ Say that again.”

He’d pummel these assholes into dust for her.

“ Most days, all I want is to go back. To how it was before. I can’t bear to keep going forward.”~ Bryce

“ Maybe you and I can figure it out, Quinlan. We’ll have centuries to do it.”~ Hunt

“ I know you’ll keep going forward, Quinlan— even if it sucks.”

“ Good thing I can keep you safe.” ~ Hunt

“ It’s not about you, sweetheart. It’s about me not wanting to wind up dead.”

“ Watch it,”

Hunt’s gray wings flared slightly- a malakh’s usual stance when preparing for a physical fight. And those dark eyes… They were the eyes of the feather warrior, the Fallen angel. The one who had smashed apart battlefields he’d been ordered to fight on. The one who killed on an Archangel’s whim, and did it so well they called him the Shadow of Death.

But none in living memory possessed Hunt’s ability to harness lightning to his will. Or the depth of power to make it truly destructive. It had been Hunt’s salvation and destruction.

Ruhn Danaan, Crown Prince of the Valbaran Fae.