She Who Fights Monsters by Kyoko M

Author:Kyoko M
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: urban fantasy, paranormal romance, interracial romance, apocalypse, dark fantasy, action adventure, leviathan, angels and demons, diverse cast, afro latina protagonist
Publisher: Kyoko M

CHAPTER TWENTY

MICHAEL

I could tell the desk clerk at the Child Services office had gotten annoyed with me because I couldn’t stop tapping my fingers on the counter. If she had any inkling of the things weighing on my mind, she may have understood my fidgety nature. Impatience bubbled around me as I stood there, waiting for Belial to return with Juliana so we could hop on a plane and get the hell back to Albany.

I hadn’t spoken to my wife in almost a day. Not by choice, of course. Gabriel called when Raphael returned with the newly translated page of the Book of Time and told me everything. Understandably, neither Jordan nor I had taken the news well. I wanted to talk to her, but Gabriel told me to let her settle down first. He had a point. Jordan needed time to evaluate the situation. Hearing her worried husband wouldn’t facilitate that. But I still wanted to call. Every second of the day, I wanted to call and tell her I didn’t give a shit what that page said—I didn’t believe for a second that she would wake the Leviathan.

I didn’t surprise me that Gabriel didn’t believe it, either. After all, he had known Jordan longer than I had so we were both in agreement about asking Raphael to return to Heaven to have someone else analyze the page. There had to be something we missed—another Awakening, or some way to avert the Leviathan’s uprising. We needed to prevent the deaths of those one thousand people and we needed to make sure nothing from the underworld would be able to make it through to Earth from the Hellmouth. Again, the damn page did not specify the details of the incident so we were basically taking a shot in the dark.

Meanwhile, I’d been stuck with Belial as he secured all the paperwork and worked his magic on the judge to grant him custody of the child for the time being. Any normal person would have gotten a firm and rightful no, but Belial’s silver tongue had always been his greatest asset. Plus, he had paid off a shitton of people to get a trial date and a verdict in his favor.

The police were elbow-deep in the case of Juliana’s missing parents—interviewing locals, checking the last places they had been seen, and spreading the word. The Freitas family was well known in the area so a lot of people were concerned, which made things a little easier. The more informed the neighbors, the better our chance of finding them.

So far, I theorized that the rogue angel had some sort of accomplice who had been ordered to kidnap the parents if he failed in his mission to kill Juliana. He might have thought they would be bargaining chips for his release, but since he got arrested, things were out of our hands. Still, even with that hypothesis, I had doubts. Kidnapping didn’t seem like his kind of deal. Something just felt off about the entire situation and I aimed to get to the bottom of it.

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