“Fucking angels.Always overconfident.Never can admit when you’re wrong,” I said, though my voice wasn’t bitter.
Valory rolled her eyes.“You did not seem to mind myoverconfidencelast night.”
I grabbed her by the waist, pulling her to me as she reached the door of the cafe.I pulled her out of the way as some customers exited the shop.She fell into me with ease.One brush of my lips along her neck made her squirm.
“Endor!”She shoved me, smiting energy tickling my nipples through my shirt.
“Who’s overconfident now?”she said, placing her hand on her hip.
I wiped my thumb over my mouth, knowing just how it drove her crazy.“You will be eating those words later.”
She dismissed me with a wave as she opened the door.“We have work to do.This division doesn’t run itself, you know.”
It was my turn to roll my eyes.“Wearethe division, Val.”I caught up to her quickly.
She shook her head.“Exactly, and we have a quota to meet.”
“Don’t I know it,” I said as I scanned the room for our target.
A lost soul.
I still could not believe that the powers that be divined us to be a team.
Considering my actions, I’d expected to be killed for my blatant ‘fuck you’ to celestial law, but Roche said the powers that be wereimpressedby my actions, and wanted to offer me a promotion.
A position that would put me on the surface alongside the contractor demons and the reapers.
As anagentof lost souls.
A harbinger, if you will.
I’d been beside myself, thinking perhaps I trulyhaddied and in my dust-ridden state, I was eternally dreaming of what could have been...
But no, as luck would have it, I was beingblessedwith the chance to guide souls.
And Valory?
Her actions landed her a promotion, too.
Not only had we ferried Mercy to her body, but we had saved Miles, too.
Two souls for the price of one wasn’t a bad deal to our bosses.Or their bosses, I guess.
Though Matthew was a grade A angel dick and reminded us that as liaison agents from differing departments, “fraternizing” was frowned upon.
Roche kindly handed his ass to him and reminded him that there was no law against angel-demon relations, and that as long as we did our job, no one gave a shit whatwedid on our own time.
Which was all the permission I needed to engage my angel every chance I got.
I would spend the rest of my eternities finding ways to make my angel use her smiting powers, and she would spend the rest of her eternities driving me up a fucking wall.
Heaven, indeed.
“What makes you think he’s here?”I asked, looking around the room.I felt the strangest sensation in my chest.Like a ripple.
A call to action.
But as I glanced around the room, I didn’t see anything out of the ordinary.
