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Gently, Logan wiped blood from Eva’s brow. A grateful smile trembled on her lips. “Are you sure you’re okay?”
“I’m fine. I don’t think the lightning hit me.”
“That’s good,” Logan said. “But maybe we should have Eidolon look at you when he’s done with my sister.” Eva had definitely been struck bysomething. But what?
Blade jogged up, dripping wet and looking like Carrie on prom night, his gaze glued to his comms. “No reports of anything out of the ordinary anywhere else. It’s just us.” He frowned. “No, wait. This is weird. It happened in Jerusalem too. Someone got a video of a localized storm over Temple Mount.”
He flicked the video into the air, and they all watched a storm dump blood rain on a shrine with a gleaming gold dome.
The camera panned, and Logan’s jaw dropped. The rain was falling on a building, and one building only.
“Ow, wow,” Eva murmured. “It’s the Dome of the Rock, a place of immense historical and religious significance. It’s even associated with end-of-times prophecies. That can’t be a coincidence.”
“It’s Lilith,” Scotty said. “It has to be.”
“This is too big for Lilith.” Ares had armored up, his sharp eyes assessing the threat. “It’s got to be Revenant.”
Eva eased up next to Logan. “Could it be Satan? Could he have broken out of his prison?”
An uneasy silence hung in the air. Escape shouldn’t be possible, but the suggestion was enough to freak everyone out. The impossible had happened before.
“It’s not Satan.” Reseph’s voice was hoarse, spoken through lips that dripped with blood.
“How do you know?”
His hands trembled at his sides until Jillian took them in hers and held them steady. Heldhimsteady. Only after he’d grounded himself in his mate did he speak again.
“I’ve tasted this blood before.” He swallowed sickly and looked up at the sky. “It’s Harvester’s.”
Shock rolled through Logan in a seismic wave. Harvester was invincible. She’d survived horrors most couldn’t even imagine. And as Satan’s daughter, she was more powerful than most angels.
“No,” Scotty rasped. “Not G-ma.”
Everyone looked up as the black clouds faded away as quickly as they’d come, leaving behind a stinking, steaming nightmare of a scene.
“Holy shit,” Limos said. “What has happened in Heaven?”
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Eva’s mind was having a hell of a time trying to process this. They’d just been drenched in…angel blood? Actual blood from an actual angel?
Seriously?
The journalist in her had many questions. The rest of her was terrified and of the opinion that this was way above her pay grade. The Aegis freakingowedher.
Desperate to gain some measure of control before she lost her ability to cope, she cleared her throat.
“Excuse me.” Eva’s heart raced as a group of the most powerful beings on the planet turned to her as one. “You’re talking about Harvester, the angel also known as Verrine? Wife of Reaver? Are you sure?”
Ares swiped his finger across the little crescent-shaped scar on his neck, and his armor melted away, leaving him in swim trunks once again. “If Reseph says it’s her blood, it’s her blood.”
Reseph stumbled out of the shelter, his gait unsteady as he trudged through the sand. He stopped a few meters away and threw back his head.
“Reaver!” he roared at the sky, his voice drenched in pain that made Eva’s heart clench despite knowing that this guy, as Pestilence, had given Satan himself a run for his money when it came to cruelty and body count. “Father! Where the fuck are you?”
Logan respectfully averted his gaze from his uncle. “Reaver and Harvester have been MIA for a few months,” he explained to her. “No one has been able to summon them. And now…” He looked up at the sky as if silently calling for them.
Amber had come to, and tears rolled down her face. Next to her, Scotty dabbed at her eyes and then ran toward the house.
