Fallen University: Year Three: A Paranormal Romance by Callie Rose

Author:Callie Rose [Rose, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

I barely had time to remember who and where I was the next morning before Michael pulled us all out into the town square. A crowd of people were waiting for us by the well, all grim-faced and silent. Keeping my head high and my guys close, I approached them. Michael nodded from us to the crowd.

“Piper and the rest of you, these people here are willing to stand up to Gavriel directly. Most of them have friends and family outside the village. They think those people will follow us into battle too.”

“I know my brothers will,” a demon at the front growled. His skin was a deep purple color, and his horns curved tightly around his head. “We’ve lost too many to Gavriel.”

I looked over their faces, a tiny bubble of hope rising in my chest. There weren’t many of them, but they knew people, who knew people, and so on. They might actually be able to pull something together. Maybe not enough to stop Gavriel themselves, but if we could get the stupid fucking Custodians to listen for once, we might all have a shot at stopping Gavriel’s army.

“I won’t stop here neither,” Michael told us. I wasn’t sure if it was meeting us or having his house destroyed, or just one too many days of living in fear, but something seemed to have lit a fire under his ass. I was glad for it. “I’ll be recruiting an army while you’re up there doing whatever you feel you need to. We’ll be in touch.”

He patted his pocket where I assumed he was keeping Kingston’s phone.

“There’s a woman you should get in touch with,” I said, chewing on my lip. It seemed like a long shot, since I wasn’t familiar with the geography of the underworld, but maybe Michael knew it better. Quickly, I described the route we’d taken that had led us to Vee’s hidden house.

To my surprise, Michael seemed to know the area I was talking about, and he nodded along more decisively as I described the landscape.

“She lives on the other side of the mountains,” I finished. “She’s up the slope a little way from the edge of the red meadow. You know the forest between the bogs?”

He nodded. “Yup. I know it. Haven’t been that way in years.”

“The forest comes to a point, like an arrow. Her place is directly across from the tip of that arrow. Her name is—well, she called herself Vee. She didn’t trust us with her real name. Anyway, she’s smart and resourceful and hates Gavriel as much as you do.”

And she’s a lonely-ass loner just like you.

I kept that part to myself though. It seemed like a terrible time to be playing matchmaker. “I think she could help.”

“Vee, huh?” There was a gleam in his eye and his heavy aura lifted slightly. “Interesting. Yeah, I’ll get in touch.”

I looked around at the gathered crowd again, feeling like I should say something. They were watching me expectantly, as if waiting for me to give them some kind of pep talk.

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