When he began to lean on her face, the saint released herself from his grasp and put an arm of distance between them. It wasn’t revulsion but a lack of interest. Abel was and would be the only man she could be remotely interested with. In spite how many millions of lives he had reaped as an angel of death in the battlefield, Lilith still loved and believed in him and would always.
“I told you, Valek, I love this world. Vampires or humans, to me, there is little difference in my desire to protect them,” she replied without missing a beat. “I wouldn’t like any of your loved ones at the mercy of the Night Lords. So please be careful. I don’t think they have joined me in this time, but I pray they will never.”