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male with dark disheveled hair and piercing blue eyes. “I’m Clyde, a warrior angel. You’ve met my soulmate, Ashley. You’ve heard of the Guardians?”
    She had overheard her sisters speaking of them before. Not just of the Guardians, a league of immortal warriors who battled Malum Inmortalis, rogue immortals, but of the war brewing between the Malums, immortal breeds, and mankind. Wanting to know more, she’d asked, but her sisters refused to answer, telling her she was too young to worry.
    Valerie tried to speak, but couldn’t. Her throat on fire, instead, she nodded.
    “We are part of that league. We hunt rogue immortals, Malum Inmortalis. The Malums attacked your coven last night. We found you and brought you to New York.”
    The Malums? The rogues her sisters told her she shouldn’t concern herself with had done this? “W-where—” she croaked.
    Ashley neared. “Try to save your voice. We’ll explain everything we can. First, just know you’re safe at the demon compound, the home of the demon king who founded the Guardian league centuries ago.”
    Her chest tightened. “My c-coven—”
    The male shook his head. “I’m sorry. You are the lone survivor.”
    For some reason, she glanced at the brunette whose eyes welled with tears.
    An ache filled Valerie even as she tried to deny what she felt inside as true. She no longer sensed the magical presence of her sisters.
    “N-no.” She shook her head. Denial yet, instantly, tears welled in her eyes and fell.
    “I’m so sorry,” Ashley whispered, her voice broke.
    “No!” she tried to scream, but her throat hurt so much it sounded like a growl.
    They couldn’t be gone. She couldn’t lose her family, the ones who’d raised and sheltered her for more than twenty years after her parents abandoned her.
    Tears fell, streaming like a river down her face. “Shari and Hanna and Dianne…a-all of them?”
    Ashley nodded. “I’m so sorry.” Her own tears spilled over. Quickly, she wiped them away. The male wrapped his arm around her.
    Valerie’s ache deepened, searing a hole in her chest. “But they were just with me! I couldn’t be the only one. I…I have to see them. I have to make s-sure!” Her voice rose and broke, sounding hysterical. “Take me back, please!”
    “You know they’re gone. You feel their magic inside you.”
    The angel was right, and yet she didn’t want to believe. She stilled, placing her hand over her chest. Like a flicker, the magic of her sisters welled and pulsed inside her where their presence had once been. So much magic and yet she felt hollow. Grief slicing through her, her breaths grew shallow.
    She knew then, despite her attempts at denial.
    Her sisters were gone. She lost everyone she’d ever cared for in a split second.
    She cried out, hating the magic running through her veins.
    “I am terribly sorry for your loss.” The angel’s compassionate eyes held hers. “There was nothing you could’ve done to save them—nothing at all.”
    I should’ve died with them, with my family! She clutched her chest, that emptiness filling with agony.
    “You lived for a purpose. Don’t let this tragedy determine the rest of your life.”
    Her grief spilled out of her. She sobbed loudly, not caring who heard, who witnessed.
    The angel took a step in her direction. Before she could move away, he placed his hand over her head. “Rest now.”
    Her lids heavy, she grew weak. When darkness claimed her, she welcomed it. The pain finally faded.

Chapter 4
    Jacob watched. Sometimes, it seemed like that’s all he did—watch Annie. Right then, he watched her play with the dolls Jenna bought her. Sensing no grief in her, he sighed.
    It had been three days since her life turned upside down. Every night, she awoke in tears, burdened with reality—her parents were gone. Her sorrow wedged deep inside him, superseding his own.
    Her grief was natural. He just wished there was more he could do to console her. He wanted to erase her