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Her features turn from confusion to carnal lust and back again. It’s... cute.
“What you saw,” she starts and stops, trying to formulate words. “You’re in grave danger.”
A grin spreads across my face. “Angel.” The word escapes my lips like a caress as I run my finger down her cheek and neck, allowing the burn to permeate my skin and sear me to my core.
“You’re in danger,” she repeats, eyes closed tightly.
My head shakes and the grin widens. “Iamthe danger.”
My wings sheath themselves back into place as my knee hits the ground with a crash that mimics the sound of thunder. Vermin scatter at the crack it causes, desperate to find shelter somewhere in the dead-end alley.
The memory of my first encounter with Victoria plays on a loop, punishing me for sins that keep racking up. Punishing me for loving her.
As soon as Zeke took flight, I chased after them. There’s no way on this Earth he should’ve been able to escape me. But he did. Somehow.
I came back to the last place I saw her with slim hope that maybe Tori convinced Zeke to bring her back. He’d be a fool to honor such a request. I’d break him in half and feed him to the demons surrounding the area.
A growl rips through my chest.
Anger courses through me, causing sparks to erupt from my fingertips, anguish chasing the emotion, warring for first place.
“Lucifer.” A deep timbre has me spinning on my heel, teeth bared, when I see him.
Zeke.
In three long strides I’m in front of the power angel, hands wrapped around his throat, holding him in the air, feet dangling. “You have a death wish, Ezekiel?” I growl in his face. “I’ll only ask once. Where. Is. She?”
“Put your threats away, Satan. It wasn’t me,” he says through ragged breaths.
I drop him to the ground, and he rubs at his red neck.
“Start talking,” I hiss, two seconds away from losing my senses and starting a war with Heaven.
For so many reasons, Ezekiel should thank his fucking stars I’m not tearing him apart. Slowly.
“I’m here because it wasn’t us who took her.”
“Us?” I yell. “You’d better start making sense.”
Zeke rolls his eyes, growing more impatient with each question and threat thrown at him.
“Heaven. It wasn’t us. It was your rogue demon.”
My eyes narrow and then it hits me.
“Nolda,” I growl.
I take ten paces toward the darkened alcove of the alley where the walled opening to Hell is hidden. As I lift my foot to step through, my body collides headfirst into solid rock.
“What the...”
“They’ve sealed off all known entrances,” Zeke growls. “How the hell did your demons manage that?”
“I don’t... Fuck!” I yell, grabbing my hair by the fistful.
“Unreal,” Zeke mutters.
“It’s impossible,” I growl. “It would take an act of...”
