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Lily fires.
“Ow, fuck!” Freddie slams against the wall, right next to where he was holding Brooks. The fire in his palms dies as he squirms, trying to free his body from the bolt that’s pinned him through the shoulder to the wall. “You shot me? How were you able to shoot me?”
“Bolts tipped with angel’s blood,” Becka says smugly. “Not standard-issue Vault weaponry, but this rogue knows a few tricks.”
Freddie’s hold on me drops once more. I race across the room toward Lily, stepping over the circle and reaching her bed.
“Fuck,” Lily breathes, and then she throws herself back onto the sheets, her eyes fluttering shut once more.
I touch her forehead.She’s okay. She’s alive.
“That bolt won’t hold him forever.” Brooks appears at my side. He clasps one of Lily’s hands and shakes her roughly. “Wake up, Lily. We have to get out of here.”
“Please, Daisy.”
“No, don’t wake her.” Becka tries to pull Brooks off, but he just shrugs her aside. “She’s—”
CRASH.
The door to the suite splinters into pieces, and the pieces catch fire as a figure strides through them.
A figure wearing a familiar designer suit and a smug expression.
Levi tilts one of his perfect eyebrows. “You rang for me, princess?”
31
THIRTY-ONE: BROOKS
“You.”Freddie glares at Levi as he struggles harder to free himself from Lily’s bolt. “Leviathan. I don’t know what you’re doing here, but this is my turf. Get your own souls. These ones are mine.”
So Levi truly is a demon. And his name is Leviathan? It doesn’t sound as if he’s working with Freddie.
That’s potentially useful to know, if we aren’t all about to die.
“Looks like you got more than you bargained for, Mephistopheles.” Levi smirks, folding his arms.
A thin, whipping tail sneaks around his body from the back of his designer jeans, curling through the air like a snake. I still hate the guy, but in that moment, I kind of admire Levi, the way he’s surveying the room as if nothing is amiss, as if Lily isn’t passed out in bed and Freddie isn’t pinned to the wall by a bolt.
So now we have two demons. So we’re twice as dead. Goody.
But then Levi lunges at Freddie just as Freddie tears himself off the wall, and they crash together.
Fire blazes around them as they swing at each other. Levi draws a sword out of thin fucking air and flings himself at Freddie, who manages to dodge the blow at lightning speed.
Fuck. It looks like our two demons have an ax to grind with each other.
And now Freddie is literally holding an ax. He swings it at Levi, who ducks and grabs Freddie behind the shoulders.
Becka races out of the way as the pair of them crash into the TV. Jackson and I throw ourselves over Lily as glass sprays across the room.
Quick as I can, I gather Lily’s limp body into my arms. I eye the door, but I have to get between the two demons to make it.
Jackson sees what I’m thinking. He grabs the crossbow that Lily has dropped on the bed and loads another bolt. “I’ll put another one in Freddie, and you make a run for it. I’ll cover you. Go to the Vault. They’ll know what to do.”
“Unlikely,” Levi grunts out as he blocks an ax blow with his sword.
Jackson raises the crossbow. He wasn’t on the archery team like Lily, and I doubt he’s ever shot one before, but we’re close quarters. It’s pretty tough to miss. The only problem is that Levi and Freddie are locked together. He can’t get a good shot without risking hitting Levi.
