A Shake of Succubus (Cocktails in Hell Book 2) by S.E. Babin

Author:S.E. Babin [Babin, S.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-07-25T23:00:00+00:00

chapter ten

“You need to run,” Az said, kneeling before me. His face was a mask of worry. Ellie paced behind him, lost in her thoughts.

“This is my home,” I said for at least the tenth time. “There’s no way he’ll know.”

Az closed his eyes. “He will know. They always know. How do you think they hunt Nephilim?”

“I’m not a Nephilim,” I reminded him.

“You’re close,” Ellie said. “There are similarities between you and them.”

“I’ve never been caught before.”

The argument was in its third hour. I arrived here in time for dinner and waited to bring it up until I had a full stomach, knowing this would happen. Az’s main goal was to keep me safe, no matter what. Ellie had more flexibility, but this was a wrench. A massive one.

Michael, you see, was my father.

And if you don’t know who Michael is…well, he’s the dispenser of Heaven’s Justice. He’s the one who goes around smiting anyone who doesn’t follow God’s fickle rules. I’ve never met him. One didn’t just go up to an Archangel and say, “Hey, Dad. How’s it hanging?”

Especially since Archangels were forbidden from procreation with anyone and anything other than other angels. Even then, it was tightly regulated.

Supposedly. I didn't have a close and personal window into the world of angel fertility rites. What I did know was I was a big oopsie.

Technically, I had my father once.

Right before he tossed me into the fires of Hell.

Not the best way to start off a father-daughter relationship, but angels were notoriously unpredictable, and Michael was a pious asshole.

Except for the time he dipped his wick into my mother.

Who was most decidedly not an angel. In fact, my mother had a reputation rivaling some of the worst characters out there. Interesting that Michael took a liking to her. It inferred a few things. Michael was into bad girls.

My mother was a more complicated creature than the lore stated.

Michael took something he wasn’t offered and created something he didn’t expect.

All were viable options.

I’d never been able to find out because of the whole being tossed into the bowels of Hell thing. Michael thought I’d died. My mother thought I’d died.

But Az, who’d watched the entire thing play out as he spied on them both, plucked me out as soon as they left. I was fine, mostly, but my once jet-black hair had turned the color of scarlet and never turned back. I was strangely resistant to fire afterward, or maybe always had been, but I didn’t care for it much. Trauma memory or something.

Michael coming here was terrible on an epic scale. Angels could smell their children, or so I heard. Angelic parents were always involved in the hunt when a Nephilim was created because they could track them on scent alone. If he stood in front of me, there was a possibility he’d know who I was.

Az and Ellie had placed a glamour on me long ago, masking my scent, but waving myself in front of his face wasn’t the wisest decision I could make.

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