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I gaped at her, hts?”

This was so new As far as the Nephilim knew, demons couldn’t read minds

“I’m not a psychic, my dear” She smiled and wrapped a thin arm around my shoulders “But you and I are intricately laced Not only are you the daughter of this body, but you house a piece of et a wave of your e ocean breeze Nothing tangible, but enough to help ”

Sing my panic, I sucked inheart The less eet off of me, the better I didn’t need another deh

“Where are we?” I asked The darkness hidfeatures of the forest If it had been daylight, I could’ve picked out our location in seconds

“Turn around” She waved her hand “Have a look”

I spun to look behindme here Not ten feet in front of us lay the Hell Gate, a cavernous hole leading into the Earth It was here that Margaret Thatcher had nearly taken oing to die that day The ht

“This is your destiny,” Elizabeth said, pullinghole She leaned over the darkness, theoff her teeth as she s you this su you werewarrior of epic proportions A means to a neorld I couldn’t be prouder”

She wrappedand I stared over her shoulder, my jaw slack All I’d wanted this sue the world Little did I know,for oal, I felt further and further away from my own

A Nephilim warrior couldn’t be part demon And she couldn’t be with Gabe

“It’s tihter Good luck to you”

With a solid push on ht unaware, I cursed and tu at the soil for a handhold All the while, er What kind of hter like that?

Dirt rained on ht I had in the blackness of the hole My fingers clutched for rocks and fists full of gravel, anything to slow hly on the rocks and leaving layers of my skin behind Further down I tu mouth It wasn’t until a blast of icy cold winter hit e to roll to a stop

The atht air of the Black Hills National Forest In its place was a dry, charged environasped Bare hills rolled for ht shone upon the land In the sky above, the sun was eclipsed by ato warrew around me Beneathdead earth of a land too barren to thrive

This was Hell