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“You can’t…” Azazel’s protest was cut off when he saw Kathrine’s golden eyes.
“I listen to him so he listens to me.” Kathrine squeezed harder and Azazel’s wrists began to smoke. He had never felt pain before. The Angel of War had never been beaten. Being cast out of heaven before the Great War in Heaven started, he had never experienced this horrible sensation. Clear golden wings appeared from Kathrine’s back and unfurled. They were at least twenty feet wide. The wings looked like they were made of air that had condensed into a solid form and the light from them lit the room.
“What are you?!” Azazel yelled.
“His servant!” Kathrine shouted.
Azazel wrenched his wrist free from Kathrine and pulled the sword from Paul’s grip. The blade cut deeply into Paul’s hand but he barely noticed. He was mesmerized by the beautiful half-angel that stood before him. Even her body had a golden glow around it. Almost like an image of an Angel was transposed over her. A real Angel, not the demon his father had become. Azazel took this chance to run. He ran out of the warehouse without looking back.
Kathrine’s wings faded and her eyes turned back to normal then she fell to the floor. Paul knelt beside her unmoving body. He tore a strip of cloth off his shirt to cover the gushing wound on his hand then kindly brushed the hair out of her eyes.
Behind them Kelly was finally able to break the chain on Hailey’s cuffs with Hailey’s help then she turned to her grandson.
“I’m weak, I need help,” John begged.
Hailey stared up in horror as Kelly’s kind beautiful face turned to that of an angry tiger. At least that was how Hailey pictured it. She had no fur but Hailey could clearly see the anger and how little John’s life meant to her now. With a clean swipe of her claws Johns head was separated from his body.
“Remind me not to piss you off,” Hailey quipped as she raised her hand for Kelly to help her up.
Kelly’s face returned to normal, her fangs and claws retracted. She grabbed Hailey’s hand then just stared at Hailey. Hailey felt it too. She had felt something before when she was near Kelly, which is why she couldn’t talk to her. Before she had brushed it off as confusion and her desire to be with a woman, but this was much stronger. Touching Kelly’s skin she knew for certain now. Kelly was her one.
Kathrine woke across the room and stared up at Paul.
“Did he get away?” Kathrine asked wearily.
“Yes, but it doesn’t matter. He won’t mess with you again,” Paul snickered.
Kathrine smiled at first then she remembered Paul in the alley with the little girl. She scowled at him and jumped to her feet.
“What did you do with that little girl?!” Kathrine demanded.
“What little girl?” Paul was confused. They had just beaten a fallen Angel, what did a little girl have to do with anything?
“The alley, you killed that man and stole the little girl,” Kathrine growled.
“Oh that!” Paul didn’t look upset. He almost looked relieved.
“What did you do with her?!” Kathrine demanded again.
“I returned her to the family she was stolen from,” Paul smirked. “As for the man, if you can call him that, he would have hurt other little girls. I couldn’t let him walk away.” The anger in Paul’s voice was unmistakable. He loathed that man.
“You could have turned him in to the police,” Kathrine reasoned.
“I had no proof and he was as much a demon as my father is. We kill demons, remember?” Paul admonished.
“You can smell evil too?” Kathrine asked.
“No, I’m pretty sure that’s just you and your dad. I don’t need to smell them to know they are evil. I’m not quite as gifted as you but I make due.” Paul’s face was a mass of confusion for Kathrine, she had never seen anyone more expressive and passionate. She had the urge to kiss him again. She really wanted to kiss him. Her thoughts were interrupted when she saw Hailey and Kelly approaching. Paul turned to them and addressed Hailey.
“Castriana. Thank you for helping my Kathrine.” He then turned to Kathrine. “Thank you for helping Cass. She was a little confused.”
“I really hate that name, Paul,” Hailey scolded.
“Fine, I’ll get used to Hailey eventually,” Paul laughed.
“You don’t mind that Hailey and I…” Kathrine started. She noticed Hailey and Kelly were holding hands. Kathrine wasn’t dense, she knew why. She just hoped that Kelly wasn’t angry but she wanted Paul to be angry.
“Why? I’ve done my homework. I know what I’m getting into. If it had been a guy then maybe,” Paul laughed. “I’ve been watching you since the day you bumped into me on the street outside Ceralin’s loft.”
Kathrine felt a twinge of anger. She wanted Paul to be jealous. Why was he not jealous? She did understand though. She didn’t want any other man than Paul and what she had with Hailey was nothing like what she felt for Paul.
“When did you bump into me?” Kathrine asked.
“You were about ten and going to spend the night at your aunt’s house. I had been watching Ceralin, trying to figure out how to talk to her about what I was doing. She had never gotten my letter or just didn’t believe it so I was working up the nerve to talk to her.” Paul paused and looked at Kathrine with longing in his eyes. “I knew that day. When I saw you again at Samael’s I didn’t recognize you at first. Of course, the minute I touched you I knew it was you. I had lost you when your mom died. Sarah is very good at hiding people.”
