For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.Nalini Singh
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The way she treated him after he was hurt broke the rules, and she didn't even know it. That's what surprised him. He'd seen others attempt to heal him, to bring him back to health, but never had anyone made him feel like he had when he was with her.
Source: Archangels Consort
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