I know, I know. It's been a while. Trust me, if you saw my calendar for the past week you would understand why I haven't updated soon. Just, pretty please review!

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As dusk fell over the hills surrounding Daniel's home on the seventh day after rescuing Luce he walked into his office to meet with the lawyer that had written out Mrs. Price's will. Daniel sat in the large leather chair behind his desk and the lawyer sat across from him, twiddling his thumbs and starting to sweat as he spoke and was under the angel's sharp gaze.

"I…uh…suppose that you…never had any plans for what would happen in the event that your wife passed away." He stuttered, nervously shifting in his seat.

"No, we didn't. I have no experience with wills so just please, tell me what to do." Daniel pleaded, softening his gaze.

"Well, in your case all of her possessions would be turned over to you, as her husband. House, any property, car, clothing…from there you can do whatever you want to do with it." The lawyer said, settling into his comfortable judicial position.

Daniel chewed over this and took a sip of brandy. He had gone through three bottles in the past week. Thank God he couldn't get drunk easily. "What if I didn't want any of her things?"

"Then your children would inherit it all. Of course you don't have any children either so then it would go to her father, but he is deceased so then it finally falls on her mother." The lawyer explained.

The butler of the house walked in with a letter for Daniel and delivered it, interrupting the conversation briefly. Daniel opened it and saw that it was from Matthew so he excused himself.

Daniel,

I have discovered recently that before Arianne kidnapped Luce she was in contact with Cam. Should it seem suspicious? Probably not. Is it suspicious because it is Cam? Of course. He is currently on his way to your home. He will arrive early morning. Do not jump to any false conclusions. Our world is still instable and we can't afford a brawl between two of our best angels. If he denies being involved in the plot, take him at his word. Be careful. Cam is not to be fooled with and if he is in your home and knows that you smell a rat he could harm Luce himself.

Your Friend,

Matthew

Daniel really wanted to throw something at the wall, or better yet just punch the wall. But just then Luce's mother came running around the corner and yelled his name frantically. "What happened?" he demanded, instantly fearing the worst.

"She…she…woke…up." She panted, but Daniel was running.

When he arrived in their bedroom he saw that his wife was lying on the bed, blinking bleary eyes. "Daniel?" she moaned, her tired eyes instantly falling on him. He sprinted to the bed and grasped her hand.

"Luce, honey, oh thank God, you're okay!" he whispered into her hair as he pulled her close.

"Wh-what's going on?" she asked, looking around herself trying to get her bearings.

"You have been unconscious for a week. We were scared that you would have psychological damage but you seem find to me and I am just so happy to see your face and your beautiful eyes looking at me and—"

"Daniel." She said, looking at him intensely. "What about the baby?" she instantly asked.

"He's fine. The physician said that he will be fine. Isn't that wonderful?" he exclaimed.

"Wonderful? I thought you didn't want a baby!" she gasped.

"It wasn't until I nearly lost him that I realized how excited I am to be a father; something I never thought I'd have the chance to be." He told her, holding her face in his hands and kissing her forehead.

"Can you stay with me for the night?" she asked, wrapping her arms around his waist.

"Forever." He promised, kissing her as she laid back down against the pillows, falling asleep instantly.

The next morning Daniel was woken up by Luce vomiting loudly in the bathroom. He untangled himself from the sheets and ran in to hold her hair back for her. When she was finished she sat back against the wall and said, "The only thing worse than being unconscious for a week is waking up and hurling."

He smiled grimly and held her hand. "Well, it is a good sign."

She lifted her hand up and stroked his face. "Yeah, it is." Then she gasped. "Daniel! My rings! They're gone! Please tell me that you had to take them off when the physician was with me."

He looked down at her sadly and tears welled in her eyes. She pulled her knees to her chest and started to sob. He put his arms around her shaking shoulders as she cried, "I know you want to hear about it, but I can't tell you what happened with Arianne. It is all so fuzzy and at the time I was more concerned about getting home than I was about knowing where I was."

"It's okay. Shh…you're okay now." He whispered into her hair. "Luce, you need to tell me how you contacted me through my thoughts."

"What?" she sniffed, not knowing how to react to the change in direction of the conversation. (AN: Was that sentence really weird?)

"The night I rescued you, I heard your thoughts. Well, really it was just you pleading for me to come and I instantly knew where you were. How did you do that?" he asked her.

"I didn't even know I did it." She admitted. "You…heard me?"

"I don't have any better of an idea than you. I just wanted to know if you were aware of it." He said.

Just then the door slammed open in their bedroom and Cam walked in, eyes sweeping over the vacant bed before landing on Daniel and Luce crouched on the bathroom floor.

"Oh, good, you're alive." He said, stopping in the doorway of the bathroom. "What's with the sour face?"

Without answering, Daniel launched himself away from Luce and at Cam, his hands closing around Cam's throat and pinning him against the wall. "Did you help Arianne in this?" Daniel demanded.

"Are you insane?" Cam gasped.

"Just answer the question!" he shouted.

Cam looked at Daniel with a steely gaze and said, "I had been talking to her that night, I didn't know what she was planning but I did let slip that you and Luce had a fight—" he was cut off by Daniel throwing him over the sofa.

"Daniel!" Luce exclaimed, standing up and running up behind him. "Let it go!"

He ignored her and advanced on Cam. "She almost killed Luce! With your help!"

"That's not what I said! I said that I had just been talking to her! I didn't know what she was planning!" Cam shouted back at him, scrambling from the floor.

"How does that justify it?" Daniel asked, grabbing Cam and pinning him against the wall and pulling a starshot out from a table next to him, holding it to Cam's throat.

"Daniel! Let him go!" Luce shouted frantically.

"We both thought she was our friend. We both thought she was our best ally and don't even deny it! Neither of us could have predicted that she would be a psycho. Right now you're in shock and you need to calm down before you do something you regret." Cam said in a calm voice.

"Trust me, killing you is something I'd never regret." Daniel said in a murderous tone that gave Luce the chills.

"Then why haven't you done it yet?" Cam tested.

Daniel paused so Luce leapt at the silence and grabbed Daniel's upper arm, tugging him away. "Daniel, please, just stop."

He glared at Cam for another couple of seconds before giving into Luce's request and backing away. She wrapped an arm securely around his waist as she said to Cam, "I'll calm him down. Then we can all sit down and discuss this peacefully."

Luce's mom then walked into the room and exclaimed, "I heard banging in here from the first floor! What is going on in here?"

Cam ignored her and said flatly to Daniel, "I'm innocent; you know that. Blaming me for someone else's actions won't bring justice; it will only bring tragedy by ripping apart our world." Then he walked out of the bedroom.

Mrs. Price put a hand on Luce's shoulder and said, "Honey, you should get back in bed."

Luce shook off her mother's hand though and said to Daniel, "Listen to him. I believe him when he says that it was an honest mistake. He's changed in the past year, you know that."

Daniel finally nodded and kissed her forehead. "Get back in bed, I'll have someone bring breakfast up." He said in a calm voice, walking over to the bed and making sure she was comfortable before finding his butler and ordering breakfast.

That chapter was longer than I expected and I'd say that the book has about ten chapters left. I know I said before that there were only a few left but I changed my mind and now have another plot that I want to run. Review please because I guarantee you'll get a faster update that way.

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