Oh, I liked that. A shiver of desire trickled up my spine.
"Any idea where we might find Genevra and Ezekiel?" I asked.
"On Earth, almost certainly. Genevra is a Principality and Ezekiel is a Throne. They're charged with economic interference, sometimes war if God notices something he wants shifted or changed. Politics. Originally a Throne was charged with guarding God's literal throne, but he never uses it. He prefers to move about undetected." Michael explained our other two targets as he and Gabriel dressed.
"It would be better if the two of you went after them since you have your powers and they're nowhere nearly as powerful as you are. We can go after Uriel," Gabe said.
I looked at Luc and shrugged. "Okay with you?"
He nodded. "Absolutely. Any chance to see you at work again."
I snorted and took his hand. "Let me see if I can sense them."
With my newly unlocked magic, I funneled it out of my body so it could stretch and roam. Gabe and Michael felt it blanket over them and sucked in deep breaths. "I've always loved the feel of your power," Michael whispered. "Like coming home."
It amazed me how I could be so many different women. To Vincent, I was the formidable Queen of Abaddon, the stuff demons had nightmares about. Then an hour later, I'm comfort for Michael.
I was a damn enigma and it was about time I remembered it.
Throwing out my power, it lifted into the air and stretched. "This will be a beacon, unfortunately," I said. "Every angel will know I'm doing it."
"And every demon," Luc said.
That put an idea in my head. "Oh, that's a great idea."
As I pushed more and more power out and it stretched high into the sky, spreading across the atmosphere, I called out to my demons.Go home to Abaddon and stay there. Do not return to the Earth realm until and unless I permit you. Shore up the walls and gates. Fix the holes or hide them.I repeated that over and over as my power spread.
Under that message, I searched. Angels were dotted here and there across the globe and most felt me send a tendril of magic toward them to see if they were the ones I searched for, but when I left, they dismissed me as searching for demons as most of them were.
Within minutes of my magic stretching worldwide, I found them.
Since sending the demons home was a good idea, I pulled away from our two targets and continued my message until I felt all the auras of the demons disappear from this realm and go to a place I couldn't follow.
Calling my magic back, it took several minutes to contain it again, but it was thrilled to have had such an important task. Power and magic loved to be used, especially for important matters.
"Genevra is close. She's in Colorado, in some bar. Ezekiel is in a home in South Africa. He was harder to find. I think he may have some sort of magic cloaking him, but it was no match for this."
"What about Raphael?" Michael asked.
"He is not in this realm," I said, my voice full of disappointment. I'd been hoping I'd come across him. "I don't believe there is a power strong enough to hide him from me now that he's used some of the most powerful Relics in existence."
Raphael, Michael, and Gabriel were very, very powerful. But Lucifer and I were the first. We were created together, meant to be companions for one another, and God's chosen children.
Or, we were. When we Fell, we became decidedlyunchosen, but once upon a time, we were the most powerful Angels in Creation.
Now we were the most powerful Fallen. And I had my powers back.
10
Michael and Gabe disappeared to find Uriel in Heaven. I didn't envy them their job. It wouldn't be easy to remove him from that realm. I grabbed Luc's hands. "Looks like we're a team, as usual." He winked at me and we disappeared, materializing in the parking lot of the bar I'd found Genevra in as the sun slipped behind the clouds. It was freaking freezing in Colorado. Our human bodies did nothing to mask the cold for us.
Wiggling my legs against the cold, I wrapped my arms around myself. "I guess let's go inside and hope she won't want to make a scene in public," I said. But when we walked inside, I realized my crucial error. The parking lot had been empty, as was the interior of the bar. I hadn't even noticed. Rookie.
Genevra sat in a corner booth, alone, with two glasses of amber liquid in front of her. "I wondered when you'd come," she said. "I figured my time here was short when I felt your powers engage. Figured it would be soon."
"You felt that?" I asked. I hadn't realized they were that loud.
She chuckled. "Oh, yes. Every angel in existence knows when the Lord or Lady of Abaddon is in the realm. Your powers shout your praises to everyone around. I don't know how Michael and Gabriel stand it, honestly."
