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Surprise flashed across Aubrey’s face, immediately followed by understanding. “Because so many of his people were loyal to Lucifer.”
“Yeah. And while some of them are still causing problems, there are plenty who were only loyal out of fear. Now that Samael is in charge, they’ve happily switched their allegiance.”
“Do you think he’ll talk to me? Historically, demons and seelie…”
“I think he’ll do anything to make Danica happy,” I said.
Nathaniel leaned down and nipped at my ear. “I can’t imagine what that must be like.”
I squeezed his hand.
Hunter boarded, plopping himself into the driver’s seat, and I narrowed my eyes at him.“You’redriving us?”
“Sure am. Hold on to your asses, ’cause we’ve got places to be.”
The bus went quiet as he pulled out. I took a deep breath. The moment we hit the outskirts of wolf territory, I needed to make us invisible to human eyes.
Hunter handled the bus expertly, and within a few minutes, we were approaching the turnoff. According to our spies, the FBI was sitting in their van monitoring us just around the next corner.
“You ready, Evie?”
I took a deep breath and nodded. Nathaniel held up a hand, and the bus went silent. Cool trick.
Feeling all the eyes on me might have made me nervous, if I’d had the time to pay attention. But Hunter was waiting to turn, and my uncle, Hellaphine, her sister, and everyone else who’d been kidnapped and tortured were waiting in those labs.
Sometimes, I had to coax my magic to life. Today, it was a case of cracking open the floodgates, just enough for my power to pour into me.
“Her hair is floating,” someone whispered.
“Creeeepy.” That was Kyla.
Nathaniel turned, and I knew he was sending them a warning look. Silence reigned once more.
I could do this. People were counting on me to do this.
My mind threw me back to the way I’d constructed the spell last time. And I pushed it farther out until it surrounded our bus. The power drain was immediate, but I nodded to Hunter.
“Did it work?” Naomi asked.
“Of course it worked.” That was Xander. “We wouldn’t be driving past the FBI if it didn’t.”
“Are you okay?” Nathaniel murmured into my ear.
“Fine. We expected this.”
Nathaniel got to work, opening his laptop and continuing to coordinate with the other teams. Just looking at his screen made me queasy, so I kept my gaze firmly on the wide window in front of me.
Danica, Samael, and their team were loaded into a bus just like ours, only they’d left an hour earlier. I’d told her how I’d come up with this spell, and she’d gently told me that thanks to Lucifer’s untimely death, she didn’t need a spell to turn an entire bus invisible. It would happen because shewilledit to happen.
“We need a road trip song,” I announced.
Groans sounded. Someone threw a wadded-up piece of paper at my head, and I lifted a hand, incinerating it while it was still in the air.
“Show-off.” Nathaniel smiled.
Behind us, Bael and Vas started talking shit to Xander and Ryker. The wolves responded, and the bus erupted into jeering. Within a few minutes, Naomi and Kyla slid into the empty seats behind us.
I turned and raised an eyebrow. “Oh,nowyou want to sit with the nerds?”
