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I embeddedboth my knives deep into the demon’s back.
“Well, that was aggressive,” Samuel muttered somewhere to my left.
I sent a glare in his general direction. I didn’t have time for this shit.
The days when I used to live for killing demons were long over. This was nothing but a job to me now—something I had to do before I could get home to my wife and the rest of my life. Usually it was a pretty bearable job, but right now I hated it with a burning passion.
“You would be too if you had a hormonal, pregnant wife and were stuck on a stupid job in bumfuck nowhere when she could go into labor any day.”
“It was either you or Danielle,” Joriel said from my other side. Danielle was the newest member of the secret order, recruited after helping me go through the regrowing of my wings last fall. Micah had wanted three of us to raid a lair of demons. When it came down to it, it was more important that Danielle be close to Sierra than me. Butfuck, it was killing me to be away from her.
My phone rang in my back pocket. I threw one of my knives, primarily to free up one of my hands, and yanked out the phone.
“What?”
“Is that how you answer for everyone?” Kylie’s voice asked. “Or am I just special?”
“You’re not special. What’s going on?”
“Where the hell are you?” she asked because she couldn’t just tell me why the fuck she’d called.
“Hell if I know. Now why are you calling me? I’m sort of in the middle of something.”
“Is that something more important than being present for the birth of your daughter?”
Dammit.
“Sierra forbade me from calling because she doesn’t want to get in the way of your angel duties, but I thought you deserved to know.”
“Thank you, Kylie.”
“Don’t tell her I called.”
“No promises. I don’t lie to my wife.” I honestly didn’t lie much, which was surprising since Sierra’s whole family still didn’t know she was married to an angel whose job involved regular trips to both Heaven and Hell.
“Well, don’t bring it up if she doesn’t ask.”
We both knew Sierra was going to ask.
“Sure.” I hung up and shoved the phone back in my pocket.
“Go,” Samuel said. “We’ve got this handled.”
I squinted through the red smoke surrounding me, trying to see my brothers. I knew they’d both heard that whole conversation, and I didn’t trust them to be honest with me at the moment. I wanted to be at Sierra’s side so much it hurt, but I didn’t want to abandon my brothers if they needed me.
“Nathaniel.” Joriel waved a hand through the smoke. Each of his fingertips was black, as if he’d dipped them in ink. Maybe it was demon blood? He tossed the knife I’d thrown back to me. “Samuel’s right. We’re almost done here anyway. Go.”
I snatched the weapon out of the air and took off. I sprinted until I was out in the open and then jumped for the skies.
When I got back to the apartment—yes, we still lived in the same apartment with Kylie—I found both Kylie and Sierra’s mother pacing the living room.
“What’s happening?” I asked, already on my way to the bedroom.
“The midwife is in the room with her, but she doesn’t want anyone else there,” Kinsley answered.
Too bad. I wasn’t standing out here. Not happening.
I barged into the bedroom without knocking to announce my presence.
