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Worse, he didn’t kno to be a grandfather He was over five thousand years old and technically could be a grandfather thousands of tirandfather even once
“I’ve been in the Akashic Library trying to find so, that’ll help track down Gethel,” Reaver said, and Thanatos growled at the el who betrayed Heaven and nearly killed Than’s son “I even searched her home in Heaven, but it’s been ransacked by Enforcers already”
Enforcers, Heaven’s angel lawkeepers, had el a top priority, their zealous pursuit spurred by the fact that the entire underworld was buzzing about her ruainst Heaven Intel from the Heavenly spy network indicated a countdoas also involved But a countdown to what?
“It should not be this difficult” Frustration lashed Reaver all the way to his wing feathers He’d been searching for eight le lead “She isn’t technically a fallen angel, so she can’t hide in Sheoul—” He broke off, wheeling around at the sudden sensation of evil e from the doorway
“My ears are burning” Tiny flecks of light materialized into a shape Gethel’s shape
Instantly, the Horseers over the crescent-shaped scars on their throats, activating their ar, the hellhound leaped to his feet, so body as everyone put themselves between the child and Gethel
“Lian out of here”
Reaver didn’t hesitate He blasted the angel with nuclear-grade direlight The blue spear of sizzling light whispered through Gethel’s body and blew up the keep’s massive wooden door Gethel, unharmed, merely smiled, even when he sent an arc of fire at her head The fla
“How the fk did you do that?” Thanatos advanced on her, sword leveled at her throat, but Reaver suspected the Horseman’s weapon would be as useless as his own The souls Than stored in his armor—the souls of those he killed—swirled at his feet, anxious to kill “How did you get in here? My keep is warded against anyone butin”
“The child I carry lent me his power” Gethel touched her stoht of the bump under her palm
What kind of child could she possibly be carrying? Power of that nitude in any species was almost unheard of
The answer came to hiel, as soh Than’s wards But there hadn’t been any angels of that class around for centuries If Gethel was pregnant with an angel who could travel freely through both Heaven and Hell, the archangels needed to know
The hairs on the back of Reaver’s neck stood up, and half a second later, the Horsemen’s Sheoulic and Heavenly Watchers, Revenant and Lorelia, flashed in
Ares’s leather armor creaked as he stepped closer to Gethel, his two-handed sword poised to strike a lethal blow “Explain”
Gethel dragged out a draive birth to Lucifer”
Bullshit Lucifer, Satan’s right-hand el torn to pieces with his own eyes So as Gethel’s game?
“You mean Lucifer’s child?” Reaver hoped not Any spawn of Lucifer’s would be as powerful as els
“Lucifer himself,” she said sweetly, and Reaver’s stomach wrenched with disbelief “I was chosen to be the vessel that will give hiain” She eyed Thanatos’s sword “Go ahead and run h I’m not really here My precious Lucifer has the power to project e to the moon if I want”
A thunderous ruels dressed in business casual slacks and shirts slaht Before anyone could react, Raphael and Metatron swept the Horsemen and Revenant, their evil Watcher, aside like flies, leaving the stunned and grateful to be left conscious
Reaver snared Raphael’s arm “What did you do to them?”
Irritation flickered in the angel’s expression, and Reaver kneas close to being laid out by soel weapon
“They’ll recover” Raphael gestured to Gethel “When we get hold of you, you won’t recover”
“You are an angel, Gethel” Metatron’s silver-blue eyes flashed lightning, but his words were measured Controlled The calm before the tempest “You can stop this madness before it’s too late”
“Why would I do that? I’ in Sheoul” She druers on her belly “His poill rival even yours”
“How is this possible?” Lorelia asked, obsessively twisting the ruby ring on her pinky “Reseph destroyed Lucifer o”
In truth, Reseph’s demon half, Pestilence, had also played a key role in Lucifer’s ht now
“Lucifer was destroyed,” Metatron agreed, never taking his eyes off Gethel “But his soul was sent to Sheoulgra Given the right, albeit unlikely, conditions—”
“He could be reborn,” Raphael finished sourly “But under what circumstances?”
Metatron closed his eyes as Gethel s for hih to sire a reincarnated fallen angel of Lucifer’s status The race”
“Or an angel who betrayed Heaven and Earth,” Reaver said grimly “Gethel”
Gethel clapped “Bravo”
Raphael glared at Reaver “If you’d killed her when you had the chance, this wouldn’t have happened”
Way to stab olden-haired wench during their last battle ate at hi taken to task about it by a puffed-up archangel who had parked his butt safely behind his monstrosity of a desk while the human realm suffered under a demon invasion and near-apocalypse
“If any of you had gotten off your pampered asses to, I don’t know, help,if he should throw in a few expletives for emphasis Ultiel could turn him into a juicy stain