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wrist sparked from a voice in my head. What the hell does help them mean? Help who?
    “A vision or were you projecting?”
    I glanced over at Cade lying beside me. “What? Neither. A dream, I think.”
    “It’s never a dream.” He reached over and tugged me to him, wrapping his arms around me so tight, I could hardly breathe. “It’s either a vision or you were projecting.”
    I closed my eyes and pressed my nose into his warm chest, inhaling his intoxicating scent of musk and man.
    My Gemini mark flared up again, and not just a little.
    “Damn it.” I pulled from his arms and sat up, raking at my wrist.
    “What’s the matter?”
    “My mark. It’s driving me nuts. Keeps burning. It started this morning when I woke up from…” I stared blankly at the wall.
    “From what?”
    “My vision. Or projecting, whichever.”
    “Tell me about it.”
    I narrowed my eyes, silently begging him to let me off the hook.
    The vision of Cade being stabbed in the chest ran through my mind. A knot grew in my throat, and my heart began to pound.
    “Zoe.” He reached for me. “Are you all right?”
    “Yeah, sorry. I don’t want to talk about this now.”
    “You’ve Eternalized. These visions you have, they’re significant. It’s one of your gifts. You must share them. We’re not just Gemini in love, we’re partners in our duties protecting the Trees. Symbiotic. One does not work without the other.”
    I needed to talk to Raz. Or Gabrielle. Someone, just not Cade. I couldn’t tell him I watched him die, especially if it was more than a dream.
    “It was Lilith. When I killed her.” I sucked in a breath, squeezing my eyes shut, pushing out the memory of Cade’s body collapsing to the ground. “Lilith came back to life, said to wake up. Then just now, a voice said, help them . Whatever that means.”
    Cade grit his teeth. “We must speak with Raz.”
    “What’s going on?”
    “Raz came to me this morning. There’s been an overwhelming number of breach attempts since Lilith’s banishment.”
    “Banishment? No, I killed her.”
    “There is no such thing as true death. Not for humans, and certainly not for immortals.”
    “I don’t get it.”
    “Fallen immortals are banished to a particular plane deep within the dark realm depending on their transgression.”
    “A plane?”
    “There are many planes to the dark realm. Levels. The fouler the transgression, the deeper the plane of banishment.”
    “So she’s not dead? But her light. It literally burnt out.”
    He narrowed his eyes. “How so?”
    I blew out a breath. I didn’t want to go there again, but I couldn’t keep things from him like before. At least not things that mattered.
    “Her light changed. From dark blue to light, then it just—poof.” I tossed up my hands. “Burnt out.”
    “What do you mean, her color?”
    “Her aura?”
    “Fallen don’t have a color. It’s simply shadowed.”
    “Oh no, she had a color. Really dark blue. Or purple?”
    “Curious.” He scrubbed his chin. “I’ve not heard of such a thing.”
    “More research for Raz?” I sat back against the headboard, pulling the sheet up over my chest. “So, Lilith. She’s not dead?”
    “No. Death by an Eternal dagger means she won’t be returning to any other plane. I suppose when you banished Lilith, Azriel’s threat was just the first of many.”
    “Perfect. Azriel is way worse than Lilith. At least we know her motives but Azriel, he’s unpredictable.”
    Cade sighed, running his hands through his messy chocolate hair.
    “What?”
    “Raz suggested we might need to end our holiday early. Perhaps he’s right.”
    “And so it begins.” I slumped my shoulders, leaning back against the wall.
    “Listen to me, love.” Cade pinched my chin between his fingers. “I’ll do everything in my power to make our time alone all you dream of.” He moved closer. “I swear.”
    “Okay.”
    I closed my eyes and moved to lean against his chest, letting his heart thump