We’d been gone for two already.
I fingered through the bills until I had enough, and slid the money through the window.
I got two feet from the counter before my stomach growled and I realized I was bloody starving.
Which meant Valory and Mercy were likely hungry, too.
I looked at our tickets, then at the large clock that loomed over the station.We’d barely had an hour until our train, which wasn’t a lot of time.
But I’d be damned if I let Mercy suffer any more than she already had on account of me.
So, I made my way to the bustling cafeteria, carefully reading the menus of the kiosks to make sure I could find something suitable for Mercy.Something without meat.I settled on grilled cheese and tomato soup.
Kids loved tomato soup and grilled cheese, right?
Yeah, Endor.Kids.Mercy’s not a kid.She’s seventeen.What the hell do seventeen year olds like?Fuck if I know.
Sure, I’d seen kids and teens in hell, but most of them were born demons like me.The kids and teens who chose to go to hell...or worse, whose soul choices marked them for hell on the surface...well, let’s just say they scared the living shit out of me and I avoided them—like most demons—like the fucking plague.
I placed my order for Mercy, opting to grab myself a spicy cheesesteak sandwich, and I knew I should have left it at that, but I was feeling out of sorts, I guess.
Fighting off werewolves and getting graced by an angel will do that to a demon.
“Will that be all, sir?”the attendant asked, and I let out a defeated sigh.
“I’ll take one brisket and macaroni bowl, too, please.”
CHAPTER4
Mercy
Valory tensedbeside me as Endor disappeared from our sight, and I knew he had sheathed his wings completely.
My head was a mess, and I felt like I’d been steamrolled over by a cartoon truck, flattened like a damn pancake on the pavement.
Every bone in my bodyached, spent from the exertion earlier during my Super Saiyan moment, and then taking a trip down memory lane with my angel and demon friends.
I stiffened for a moment as I turned to look at Valory.
Is that what we were?
Friends?
No, friends didn’t seem like the right word, entirely.But acquaintance felt too awkward, and family wasn’t the right term at all, but yet...
It was the most comforting choice.
I couldn’t deny that being in Valory’s presence, even then, I felt safe.Loved.
Valory had gone out of her way since day one to make sure I was safe, and so had Endor.
My thoughts wandered to my memory.
ToMiles.
Somewhere deep inside, I knew he kept me safe, too.Though, I had no idea how or why, or...
Damn it, why couldn’t I remember?
