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“What? No. If Levi sees you there, he’ll lose it. He’ll be reckless and do more stupid shit. No, you have to stay.”
Lacey grabbed something from her pocket. “Take this.” She deposited a small white pouch in my hand. “It’s a bomb. Throw it near your enemies and it’ll daze them for a minute. In case anything goes wrong.”
A minute was enough for when I found my wings and had to run out of there. “Thanks.”
“If I had more time, if I had known your plan, I would have done more for you.”
“It’s okay. Hopefully, I’ll just need this.” I fisted the pouch. I glanced at my phone, which had been recharged by Lacey on the car ride here. “It’s almost time. I should go.”
“Right. The demons Levi left behind are outside, one around the front, the other in the back. Be careful.”
I nodded and approached a window in the back, on the house’s left corner, where it met the wooden fence that separated the yard from the neighbor’s. I opened it and spied out. The demon was across the long yard, looking out into the darkening horizon.
“Wait.” Lacey crouched down and touched the tip of my boots. A rush of magic coursed through my feet. “You can jump and run now. No one will be able to hear your footsteps for the next ten minutes or so.”
I smiled at her. “Thanks.”
Not one for sappy goodbyes, I sat on the windowsill, climbed down, and jumped over the fence. I heard a little squeak as Lacey closed the window behind me, but I didn’t stop moving. The next two houses didn’t have a fence, so I could run straight through their backyards, until I was at a corner house, jumped another fence, and found myself at the street.
With my phone in hand, I used the map app to guide me out of this neighborhood to a busier street. It took fifteen minutes of fast walking, but when I got to the street, I saw a two-story medical building with two taxis parked in front.
I jumped in one, rattled the address to the mansion, and tried to relax on the thirty-minute drive.
Tricky thing to do.
Five minutes away, I called in. “I’m almost there.”
“Good,” was all the voice on the other side said.
My hands sweated and my heart thumped. The moment I got there, Levi would know it.
The taxi stopped right in front of the iron wrought gates. I paid the driver, stepped out, and faced the two demons behind the gates. “I’m Ariella.”
The gates parted in the middle, rolling on side rails, and stopped with a six-foot gap. Swallowing hard, I walked past the gates. Immediately, they closed behind me.
I tried not letting that affect me as I continued down the stone path that led to the mansion.
Not even five seconds later, I heard his voice.
“Ariella!” I glanced back and saw Levi holding the gate bars, his eyebrows at his hairline. “What the fuck are you doing?”
Four demons appeared from the side of the gates, pointing what looked like taser batons at Levi.
“Step away, demon!” one of the guards said, jerking the taser forward.
Levi bared his teeth at them. “I want to see you try.”
The guard pushed the taser up to Levi?—
“Wait!” I called out. The guard stopped, the taser just half an inch from Levi’s hands. Damn it. This was not my plan. “He’s with me.”
Levi tilted his head.
The two demons who had been guiding me to the house stepped beside me. “Are you sure?” one asked.
I sighed, knowing I would regret this. “Yes, I’m sure.”
The gate opened again. Levi growled at the guards before walking to me. He came to my side. “What the fu?—?”
