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in, the matter must have shown on his face though, and Amber cut to the chase.
    “Change of plans. ”
    His interest piqued now , Raz arched a brow. “How so?”
    Amber slumped down in one of his leather arm chairs. “Lillian called me. She wants us to pick her up in an hour.”
    Raz was surprised. Though the girl had seemed to accept what they had revealed to her earlier in the day, he had picked her to be the kind that would fight her fate tooth and nail, wanting back the cover of blissful ignorance. The bookworm showed more guts than he had thought her capable of. Raz wondered how long that would be the case.
    “Good. The sooner we get her to a safe house and start training, the better. ”
    “I agree, but still…I never get used to having to be the one that rips the blinders off.” She sighed. “Now I reme mber why I don’t like Ivory duty.”
    He snorted. “You mean besides the babysitting?”
    She frowned up at him. “Do you really think of it that way? We’re talking about kids here. Kids that have dreamed up a long and fulfilled future and have to trade it against a much shorter life without even really knowing what they got themselves into.”
    Now it was Raz’s turn to frown. He hadn’t seen Amber in a while but remembered her as a woman full of light and hope, the absolute angel cliché. The woman in front of him had clouds shadowing her. “What’s wrong?”
    “I don’t know. It’s…” Another exasperated sigh and frown. “I don’t know.”
    “Come on, Ambriel, you’re the angel of communication and the touchy-feely stuff. You can do better than that.” Raz moved away from the window and crossed to the mini -bar that wasn’t mini at all and got out a bottle of whiskey, filling two glasses. Handing her one he sat down in the armchair across from her.
    “Thanks.” Amber looked at the glass in her hand, swirling the golden liquid. Suddenly she shook her head and pinched the bridge of her nose. “Just a bad day, I guess. Plus I haven’t done this in a while, Ivory duty I mean. I talked to Lillian after she called me.” Throwing her head back and laughing she added, “Full of questions that one. But who can blame her. She got to me. She’s a good girl, Raz, and has a strong mind. Maybe seeing that mind trying to figure out the shit we dumped on her made me…sad. But on the other hand I like her and I’m kinda looking forward to training her, seeing her become an Ivory. You know what I mean? I always like that part, watching them discover themselves. And so I… I’m feeling guilty, Raz.”
    For both their sakes he hoped she was talking about feelings on an angel scale not a human one. “Okay, so it’s hard for them leaving behind what they know. No one claimed otherwise. But you know as well as I do that Ivorys are meant to fight, born for it. She wouldn’t feel right in her skin continuing her life like any other mortal.”
    “I know .” After another pause she said, “My last Ivory died three weeks after I left.”
    Trying to lighten up the mood Raz smirked, “Ah, so that’s why they wanted me to work with you. Increased life expectancy.”
    It worked, even if only for a brief moment. He had seen the flash of white teeth before she threw a cushion at him and that was all that mattered.
    “Ha ha. Like I said, just a bad day.” With that she downed the whiskey in one gulp, grimacing as the fire burned her throat and hit her stomach. “Nothing more.”
    Raz still wasn’t so sure about that as he looked at her, taking in the smile that didn’t reach her green eyes, but before he could get more out of his partner a warm tingling of a sound vibrated through him. Amber didn’t so much as hear but sensed it as well.
    “You in trouble?” she asked glancing curiously at him.
    He snorted. “Who knows.”
    “Tell him about the change in plans while you’re up there, will you?”
    “Sure.” Raz stood, putting his empty whiskey glass on the table between them and motioning