"We turned over the information to Beverly and Flynn so that they could figure out who the Mimi Diaz who had commissioned had been and if there was any suriviving family. Dinah and I went our separate ways. I came back to see Irina getting her shot from Heather.
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"I feel so different now. I feel like I am no longer bound to the blood and the night."
"Do not go out too soon. You might hurt yourself" Heather grumbled. "Your system is very weak yet, and being fae makes it more unstable"
"You should do it, too Amos"
Amos shook his head "If I did, Kisasi would kill Heather."
"Kisasi, who is he?"
"An African spirit of revenge. Punishing the entire family for the slave trade… the one you summoned against me."
Irina looked away "You hate me…you think that I am a monster."
Amos sighed "I know that you are fae…unpredictable, capricious, not bound by human morality:
"So you no longer love me."
"Our love was an illusion. The illusion is gone. I do not hate you, but there was never love there."
"No, I still love you"
"You are fae…. Which means that one day you will change and forget me."
"No, I do love you."
"Now" Amos sighed "Tomorrow, who knows?"
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Beverly had traced Mimi Diaz to a servant for the Benchley family at the turn of the century. And given what a servant's wages were then, she was probably doing it for someone who wanted not to be identified. A member of the Benchley family.
Probably an illegitimate child, hidden away to avoid scandal.
But whose child?