“Samael.”
I turned and Lilith held up her phone. “You need to see this.”
The Mage Council Headquarters were on fire. Several floors were mostly missing on one side, as if a huge chunk had been taken out.
“She was in there,” I was certain of it. “She was in there and I can’t feel her anymore.”
“Samael–”
My wings extended, dripping flames. Wrath burned through me, incinerating every other emotion in its path.
Lilith stepped closer, her face pale. “They wouldn’t have killed her there. You know that. They’d take her to Lucifer and he’d kill her himself.”
She was right.
“I have a call for you,” Sitri announced as he walked in, his face grim.
I slowly turned my head at the interruption and the blood drained from his face.
“You’re going to want to take this one. It’s a witch. Says Danica saved her life, and it’s her turn to repay the favor.”
I was across the room with the phone in my hand before I knew I’d moved.
“Speak.”
“Uh, hi. Is this–”
“You’re speaking with Samael. And you’re wasting my time.”
“S-sorry. My name is Riona. I’m the witch–”
“I know who you are.”
“Okay so I had a few drinks with my sister and we ended up at Meredith’s. She was about to close–”
“Get to the point, human.”
“Um. Mere has a tiny touch of the sight. No visions or anything, but she gets like panic attacks. I mentioned I wanted to find a way to thank Danica properly, for saving my life and she suddenly had this massive panic attack. She just knew Danica was in danger.”
I could hear someone cursing in the background, along with the sound of a car’s engine.
“Where are you?”
“Mere said Danica was meeting a friend at the Mage Council. We got there as the top floors exploded and a car drove out of the garage. It nearly hit us. Then Rose ran in front of our car and screamed about Danica being kidnapped.”
I took a deep breath, reaching for the little patience I had left.
“The taillight,” Riona said quickly. “Someone punched out a taillight, and they’d shoved their hand through it. It’s Danica. I recognized the bone bracelet on her wrist.”
“Where are you?”
“We’re taking 40 East. We’re following the car.”
40 East. They were heading to the closest portal to the underworld which was next to Lake Wheeler in Southeast Raleigh.
I threw the phone to Sitri. “Stay in contact with them.” I turned and strode toward the balcony.
“If she’s in the underworld, you can’t follow her,” Ag said.
