Sins of Angels (The Complete Collection) by Larkin Matt

Author:Larkin, Matt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Incandescent Phoenix Books
Published: 2014-02-24T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE

Maybe I was wrong about everything. The realization Galizur—Raziel—had been manipulating me from the moment he sent me to Gehenna leaves me uncertain of anything anymore.

The door opened and David jerked around to level his pulse pistol at the intruder. An Angel. Despite himself, he lowered the weapon. How could he threaten such a being? The Angel must have overridden Rachel’s lock on the door, perhaps through psionics.

David tried to keep his focus on navigating the Conduit.

“Wait!” Rachel shouted, pushing herself up off the floor.

The Angel strode toward her without pause. He was the size of a man—a big man—but with that wingspan he seemed to take up the entire bridge. “Surrender command, Ms. Jordan. Turn the Ark over to me and no harm will befall you.”

The way she set her jaw, David knew it wouldn’t be good. “Lass …”

“I am prepared to turn the ship over … But you have to let us get to Knight first. He’s on Gadara, not far.”

“We’re almost there,” David said.

Raziel spread his hands as though making a magnanimous gesture. “By all means, Ms. Jordan. Retrieve the mercenary.”

“He’s the one, isn’t he?” Rachel said, and stood. She hardly seemed frightened of the Angel. David suspected she should be. “The one you were testing, your pawn on Gehenna.”

“What makes you think there was only one pawn on my board, Ms. Jordan?”

Rachel snorted in a decidedly unpious manner. David prayed Raziel didn’t decide to smite anyone.

He pulled the Ark around a few more bends in the Conduit, then jumped out of the Gate. Gadara was the third planet from the sun in this system, a tiny world covered by a couple of small cities and not much else. A glacier blanketed the entire northern hemisphere, so the only cities sat on the equator.

“We have arrived,” Raziel said. He pointed to a city on the display. “Your friend is there, Ms. Jordan.”

Rachel glowered. “You know that because you were working with the Lazarus Group. Just another set of pawns? Do they know what you are, Angel?”

“Turn over command of this vessel, Ms. Jordan. I do not want to be forced to harm you or Commander McGregor, but I am taking the Ark. Now.”

Rachel’s chest trembled, then she stumbled. David leapt from the chair to catch her as she fell. She went limp in his arms. His heart caught in his throat. He couldn’t breathe.

“Did you … ?” he tried to ask the Angel.

“No. She is unharmed. The shock of severing the connection with the Ark made her faint. Now go.”

David lifted Rachel into his arms. So she was free of this thing? She must have willingly handed it over to Raziel. And the truth was, he was glad of it. Rachel had been losing herself in the Ark from the moment they found this relic. It wasn’t ever meant for mankind, that much was clear. It belonged where it was—back in Angel hands, though Rachel might never agree. He supposed she’d seen anything was better than losing it to Jericho Corp.

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