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out.”
    “I was watching you sleep.”
    She squinted in the darkness but couldn’t make out his form in the shadows. “Why do you stay in the shadows, my love? Step out so that I may hold you.” She stepped toward him, putting the full sway of her hips to good use.
    “Stay there. I like seeing you in silhouette. The light from the windows…it allows me to see you just the way you should be seen.”
    She paused and stared into the shadows. “And how is that?”
    “As a beautiful creature of the dark.”
    She heard him rise, and the chair he had been sitting in creaked under the strain of his weight. A rustling sound caught her ears and she smiled. “Your wings?”
    “Yes.” He stepped forward and she caught the first glimpse of his completed self. She looked up at his chiseled jaw, the bright blue of his eyes, the blonde locks curling just above his brow. “Although not as I expected.”
    She stepped forward and ran her hand across his massive chest. Her fingers brushed his strong shoulders and she squeezed when she felt the meatiness of his massive arms. “What do you mean, my love?” Her voice was breathy as she drank him in with her eyes. “You look perfect to me.”
    “My wings. They’re not like they were.” He pulled them in and they settled over his shoulders like a great leather cape. “They’re no longer feathered.”
    Her eyes widened as she ran her fingertips along the black leathery cape. She could feel the veins and connective tissue under the thin black skin. “What happened, my love?”
    “I do not know. I can only surmise it is because I took this dead flesh as a palette.”
    “And it is reflected in your wings?”
    He shrugged his massive shoulders and she noted the bat like wings rising with the action. “I can only assume so.” He turned and stepped away from her. “It’s not like I can go to my brethren and ask them, now can I?”
    “What does it matter, my love? Wings are wings. You never needed them before. You can travel at the speed of thought.” She ran her hands across the back of his shoulders and felt where the wings connected to his massive back.
    “An angel is an angel, my dear. But it is all about perception.” He spun on her and extended his wings, letting the blackness blot out what little light shone into the room. “They will see me as a demon on this plane.”
    Lilith sighed and wrapped her arms around his waist. She laid her head against his chest and felt him relax, his wings lowering and wrapping around her. “Once we have dominated them all, who cares what they think. All will bow before us.”
    Samael closed his eyes and squeezed her gently. “It matters, my love. For the subterfuge to work, they need to believe us holy at first.”
    She smiled wickedly and pulled away from him. “So we skip the holy part and go straight to domination.”
    “It will be much more difficult.” He stroked at her hair with his massive hand.
    “Perhaps. But we have a demon army that cannot be destroyed.” She chuckled as she pulled back and stared up at him. “One thousand may as well be ten million when their numbers cannot be depleted.”
     
     
     
     

 
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    Mark hung up the phone and went over the names on his list. He shook his head at the potential shit storm he had written down on paper and got up from his chair. Mitchell knocked just as Mark stepped out from behind his desk. He glanced up at the face poking through the door. “I heard you were running up the phone bill.”
    Mark waved him in and took his seat again. “I was running a hunch.” He tossed the tablet across the desk. “Those are people who used to be with Team One.”
    Mitchell picked up the notebook and scanned the list of names. “What do you mean, ‘used to be’? I thought Sheridan was the only one removed from—”
    “The rest are either MIA or confirmed dead.” Mark chewed absently at the end of the pencil in his hand. “I have a sick feeling in my gut, and it