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"No!" Cael exclaimed, backing out of the other angel's grip. "No one is holding me here against my will, Araqiel." Running a hand through his hair and re-situating the Charper PD sweatshirt after it had been disheveled by the angel's strong hands on his shoulders. "I've been here," he explained. Leaning back against the sofa he'd been sitting on previously, he took a deep breath as he tried to explain to the angel what had happened. "I was doing my duty but instead of escorting a mortal to Heaven I saved him. After that whenever I followed that pull towards whatever it was I had to do it was always the same mortal...since it always pulled me to him I stayed with him." He left out the fact that he'd slept with the mortal and that there were some consequences to those actions.

Cael knew Angels, knew they stuck to their duties and took their jobs very seriously, and even if Araqiel cared enough to check on him he had no doubt if he knew about the child it would be reported. The threat of a possible danger to his unborn child, no matter what it was, had Cael tense and uncomfortable.