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let’s change into something appropriate for the Ordinary and get down to business.”
    Duncan quirked a brow at her. “Don’t tell me you plan on doing what Uriel says.”
    â€œOf course I do.” I hope you’re hearing me, Uriel. Or Sarah, or Abigail, or any of the other angels dogging my every step. “It’s an honor to protect the balance. I’m told you and your brother and sister work to sway the souls bent on Decision. Your knowledge will help us do as we’re meant.” That about summed up what she’d been lectured on for the last several years. “Oh, and I just wanted to add what a pleasure it is to work with such an established Decision maker.” Right, keep it positive . She wanted to choke on the words, but forced them out regardless. “I want only to restore harmony and balance…and love.”
    Duncan frowned, and she wanted to kiss him for having a disagreeable bone in his body. “On that note, I’m ready to leave. Let’s get the hell out of here.”
    Thank God. Sapphira nodded pleasantly and took his hand, flashing them to the area where clothing suitable to the middle realm sat on hangers and in heaps for those needing them.
    Anticipation surged, the knowledge that soon she would once again be surrounded by greed, lust and conflict, by the very qualities that made humanity what it was—exciting, lively and a complete opposite of life in the upper realm—causing her heart to race. Her excitement had little to do with the sensual demon forced to follow her orders. Or so she kept telling herself. She glanced at him and licked her lips. Such a strong, powerful creature. Tall and broad, heavily muscled. Dark of spirit and contrary. And hers to do with whatever she wanted, under her thumb, her boot, her body…
    â€œSapphira?”
    Duncan’s smooth tone tore her gaze from where it had wandered to his impressive erection, and she flushed when he smiled, a carnal grin that told her he knew very well what she’d been imagining.
    â€œLet’s go save some souls, sweetheart. I’m more than happy to teach you everything I know.” He grabbed jeans, a ragged T-shirt, and a pair of scuffed boots—all black. Then he promptly dropped his white robe and stood before her, gloriously naked. “I promise not to leave anything out.”

Chapter Two
    â€œUriel’s calling. I’ll be right back.” Her eyes wide and fastened on that part of him rising to meet her gaze, Sapphira disappeared before Duncan could take his next breath.
    Duncan scowled at the empty space where she’d stood. His plan would never work if the angel kept her distance. Despite the fact that he’d decided to use her for the information she possessed about the upper realm, his body demanded he take whatever else she had to offer. For all the physical pleasures he’d been subjected to these last nine days, he hadn’t once been as aroused in Sarah, Abigail and the others’ presence as he was just by standing near Sapphira.
    For a minute he wondered if that had been Uriel’s plan all along, to seduce Duncan with feminine perfection. As he dressed, Duncan pondered the idea and discarded it. No, Sapphira didn’t seem as easy around Uriel as the others. And Uriel had given her a tired, almost exasperated study, much like the one Duncan’s father often gave James, his brother.
    Thoughts of James took his mind from Sapphira, and Duncan wondered how he’d once again found the short end of the stick. James and Duncan had played a prank gone very wrong, and though amusing to see the angels getting their asses handed to them, Duncan knew he and James rightfully deserved some type of punishment, if for no other reason than they’d been sloppy enough to get caught. Yet while he’d been banished to the demon-forsaken upper realm, James, his twin, was no doubt living it up in the catacombs with the dragons,