“Are you still in the car?”
“Yeah. It’s upside down. I can hear an ambulance though.”
“Is anyone hurt?”
“We’re all okay.”
“Don’t trust anyone except your coven and Samael’s demons. Promise me.”
“I promise.”
I hung up and called Samael. It would take me ten minutes to get to my sister, but she was just a couple of streets from his tower.
“Danica.”
“My sister–”
“I know. I’m on the way.”
My heart thumped. “Thanks.”
I hung up, sprinted down the last few stairs and hauled ass to my car. It didn’t escape me that I’d just called the very demon I’d been contemplating killing earlier. And I hadn’t even hesitated. The moment I’d known my sister was in danger, I’d reached out to him.
I’d wrestle with that later.
By the time I arrived, paranormals were surrounding the empty car.
“Evie?”
“Over here,” she called. I turned. She was sitting in the back of an ambulance, one of the kids on either side of her. Samael stood a few feet away, talking to Vas and Bael.
“I’m sorry, Danica. I didn’t see it coming.”
“Of course you didn’t.” She was clutching her arm and I stared at her. “You said you were okay.”
“It’s just a break,” a seelie EMT said. “We’ll get it sorted in a moment.” He stepped back from Cil. “You’re fine, young man.”
Cil grinned at him, and then turned the grin on me. “We flew,” he said. “You should’ve seen it.”
I closed my eyes. A tiny hand slipped into mine. Zip. He’d hopped out of the ambulance. I glanced at the EMT and he nodded. “Also fine.”
I crouched down. “I’m sorry this happened to you,” I murmured. Zip nodded solemnly. “Our treasures are still in the car.”
I blinked at him. “The marbles?”
“We have other treasures too.” His steady gaze told me quite clearly that he expected me to reunite him with those treasures. Despite the situation, my mouth curved.
“I’ll get right on it.”
Vas made his way over to me, his expression hard. I stood back up and walked a few steps away from the kids.
“What do we know?”
“Your sister saw people in dark cloaks. That was it. After the car flipped, they surrounded it and ordered her to get out. Said if she cooperated, they might let the kids live.”
I would make them hurt before I killed them.
“They weren’t expecting the ward.”
