lana harvey 05 - death wish by roquet angela

Author:roquet, angela [roquet, angela]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2015-10-02T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure

until he begins to blame somebody else.”

—John Burroughs

Thursday morning, the thumping of Saul’s tail in my face woke me. I didn’t piss and moan over too much after I realized I had slept through my alarm. All work and no play was starting to take its toll.

My skin crawled when I stepped outside Holly House. I could feel eyes watching me again. Saul sensed my discomfort and tilted his muzzle from side to side to sniff the air. He let out a gruff snort, seemingly frustrated that he couldn’t zero in on the cause of my distress. We hurried past the front gate and to the travel booth across the street.

I was in and out of Reapers Inc. as if the place was on fire. Bumping into Grim was at the far red end of my stress-o-meter, right before being eaten alive by hellcats, which didn’t seem as likely to happen, but I’d witnessed it enough times that I couldn’t dismiss it entirely.

The harvest list Ellen gave me was deceptively light. I would have taken the time to question her about it, but like I said, raging red stress-o-meter to fret over. There were no protests from the Posy Unit, even though Kevin was still MIA. Having Saul back helped the day slip by faster, and if not for the threat of Armageddon and the thought of Bub as a prisoner of war, I might have actually had a skip in my step.

I found myself back at Reapers Inc. by early afternoon. With Grim on the verge of smiting me, I probably shouldn’t have, but I went ahead and risked bringing Saul into the office. I lucked out and missed the grimmest of reapers, but still somehow managed to run into Maalik in the lobby.

“Stalker alert,” I quipped dryly. “You’re totally following me, aren’t you?”

Maalik gave me a forced smile as Saul nudged his leg for attention. It had been several months since we split, but the hounds still adored him. Especially Saul. The dirty little traitor. I was never bringing him to the office again.

“We need to talk,” Maalik said, following me outside. Saul’s tongue flopped out of his mouth as he happily pranced between us to keep up. Every time I saw the angel of doom and gloom, my stride seemed to double in length.

“I’m off work early. Don’t spoil it.” I groaned as Maalik grabbed my arm and steered me in the opposite direction of the nearest travel booth.

“Somewhere private. How about the park?”

“What? No. I’m going home and taking a bath.” I jerked my arm, but he hung on. “I gave you the stupid tracker. You didn’t think I was capable, so now it’s your problem. I gave up, remember? You win. Ow!”

“Quit being so difficult,” he hissed, his fingers pinching around my elbow.

“Then quit manhandling me!”

A nephilim gave us a strange look and sidestepped around us as we stopped at the curb. Maalik mean-mugged him as he hurried away.

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