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“Are you?” she shouted at all of them, tears burning her eyes and the humiliation of that making everything even worse. “Are you really sorry? Why haven’t you found Draven yet? Why aren’t you out there looking for him? All of you.”
“We are, Eva.” Logan shot a glare at Scotty before taking Eva’s hand and leading her to a bench that faced the shoreline. “DART is using all its resources to locate him. But now that he’s hooked up with Lilith, it’s more complicated.”
“Why?” His level voice and logical words penetrated her fury, and she dialed it back a notch. But that didn’t stop a tear from rolling down her cheek. “I don’t understand.”
“Draven’s species resides in our world. We know him. We know where he likes to hang out. We should have been able to find him by now.” He swiped a napkin off the bar top and handed it to her. “But Lilith is a product of Sheoul. She knows every corner of it. If he’s with her, he’s a million times harder to find. DART doesn’t have the kind of reach in Sheoul that we do here. Most DART agents are human and can’t go there.”
“But you can, right?” She dabbed at the tear and then caught another that escaped. Dammit. She hated being so vulnerable on a normal day, but here among strangers and in a strange place after a strange event…she was honestly surprised she hadn’t curled up in a fetal position yet.
He shook his head. “My cousins and I are all half human and one-quarter angel. We can use Harrowgates and stand being in Sheoul for a few minutes, but we get sick if we’re there too long.” He gestured to Ares and Reseph. “The Horsemen and the Sems are already looking for Lilith, but—”
“It’s like trying to find a hot dog that doesn’t contain assholes,” Mace said, pulling up next to Logan.
Okay, she got it. She was being unreasonable. But none of this sat well with her. She was a person of action, someone who confronted problems instead of hiding from them—or instead of standing around crying.
“Then let me help. Give me a comms device. It doesn’t have to be mine. I’m great at research. Or I can consult with a demon law firm. I know the language. Just…please. Let me do something.”
Logan and Mace exchanged glances, and then, in a shocking move, Mace shrugged, unclipped his comms, and handed it to her. When Logan looked at him like he was a loon, he shrugged again.
“I’ve got another one at home. And I owe her.”
“I’m going to need more information,” Logan muttered. “Later.”
She hid a smile as she handed Logan his comms and clipped Mace’s around her wrist. That demon wasn’t so bad.
Seemed weird how easily that thought came to her.
“What’s going on?” Kynan asked as he approached. “What’s The Aegis saying about the blood rain?”
“I don’t think they know anything,” Eva said. Even if they knew the blood belonged to an angel, there was no way they’d know to whom it belonged or how—and why—it rained down on a single building.
Logan scrubbed his face, suddenly looking tired. The guy was probably running on fumes and fear, and if they’d been anyplace else, Eva would have hugged him.
“But things just got even worse,” he said. “Draven killed another Guardian. The female, Keeley.”
Kynan closed his eyes and threw his head back with a frustrated curse. “We’re running out of time.”
“I think we’re already out.” Logan’s voice was grim. “This time, Draven put his victim on public display. It won’t be long before she’s identified, and the media learns she was one of the DART/Aegis exchange members.”
Kynan swore. “And then The Aegis will tell the world that one of our people is a killer.”
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Shit just kept getting worse, and Logan was tired of playing defense.
It was clear Kynan felt the same way, and he cursed in a couple of different languages as he tapped at his comms device. “I need to reach out to the Aegis Elders.” He frowned. “Speak of the devils. Hold on.”
Kynan wandered off, speaking to whoever was on the line, and Logan sank down next to Eva on the bench. She was rubbing her bare shoulders and looking around as if she couldn’t focus on any one person or thing.
“You okay?” he asked for what had to be the millionth time. “Are you cold?”
“No.” She offered a shaky smile. “I’m fine. I just…” She inhaled deeply. “It’s nothing. How can I help?”
“You can tell me if Kynan was right,” he said. “Will The Aegis get in front of this with their spin?”
“I don’t know. Maja didn’t tell me their plans.”
Even though he’d expected Eva to be careful with the information she shared, disappointment flared in the pit of his stomach.
