Chapter 71

• "Tell me again exactly. Did that man say anything else?" Gosto asked, for what felt like the fifth time.
• We were gathered in his office Gosto, Fosco, Ermes, Diamante, and me trying to piece together the fragments of that disastrous night. Exhaustion clung to me like a second skin, but so did fear. Someone out there knew what I was that I had awakened and the more I turned it over in my mind, the more I was convinced I knew who it might have been.
• "I... I have something to confess," I said slowly, hesitantly. "I think I’ve seen him before. The man who called me Nephilim… his voice was different in the ballroom rough, hoarse but it might have been him."