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understood the message: “I’m going to kill you.” It
didn’t bother him though, because he was thinking the same
thing.
     
     

Chapter Seven
     
    T aylor watched as
Sam gripped the wheel harder, her knuckles turning white from the
pressure. By applying more force to the accelerator, she had
managed to stay close to the lead car when it sped up in response
to the reports about the angel pursuers. Taylor had never seen her
friend this nervous—typically she was highly confident, bordering
on cockiness at times.
    The road they were on was quiet—no one was
outside and they were the only cars on the road. That’s when they
lost their last line of defense.
    One moment the lead car was zooming along,
about three car-lengths in front of them, and the next moment it
erupted in a ball of fire when a basketball-sized pulse of light
struck it, like a heat-seeking missile finding its target. The car
flew thirty feet in the air before landing in a heap on one of the
well-manicured front lawns they were passing.
    Samantha screamed and tried to swerve, but
she couldn’t avoid driving directly through the wall of fire that
rose from the road. Luckily, the car was moving fast enough to
slice through the flames and emerge on the other side unscathed,
but due to the lack of visibility and Sam’s sudden turn of the
wheel, the car jumped the curb and clipped a fire hydrant. They
came to rest on the sidewalk and, amidst a shower from the burst
hydrant, Chris jumped out and pulled a stunned Samantha from the
car. He re-belted her into the backseat and took over as
driver.
    Chris gunned the engine, reversed, and then
accelerated quickly, spraying rubber on the curb, as he tore back
onto the road. “Are they dead?” Taylor asked, referring to the
demons in the lead car.
    “No, they should be fine,” Chris replied. “A
little banged up maybe, but a little fire doesn’t hurt our
kind.”
    “What the hell was that?” Taylor said.
    Chris answered in one word: “Angels.”
    “I know that, but does it mean they defeated
the demon guard?”
    “I don’t know. Let’s find out,” Chris
replied.
    Pumping the radio to his mouth, he barked,
“Rear guard, what is your status?”
    The radio crackled and they heard, “Mission
complete. We teleported onto the angels’ backs and were able to
force them to land. But then one of our men grabbed them and
teleported them to who knows where. Adrian is a traitor, sir.”
    “Okay, there’s nothing we can do about that
now. We’ve been attacked by a second group of angels. Can you and
one of your squad members teleport to our vehicle? We are about two
blocks down Crown Street.”
    Seconds later, they heard a thud on the roof
of their car. “Sam, move to the middle seat,” Chris ordered.
Obediently, his girlfriend undid her belt and slid over. After
rolling down his window, Chris shouted, “C’mon in!”
    Even though she would have been expecting it,
Sam visibly twitched when the demons suddenly appeared on each side
of her. “Hiya, Sam,” one of them said.
    “Hey, Chuck,” she replied. Charles Booth was
a close friend of Chris’s, and both Samantha and Taylor had talked
to him a few times before. Charles, or Chuck as most of the demons
called him, was an intelligent, but fit-looking demon, with dark
black eyes and sharp eyebrows that made him appear to be intensely
concentrating. He was also highly handsome—he kind of reminded
Taylor of the smart but sexy Dr. Karev from Grey’s
Anatomy .
    Taylor didn’t know the other demon who had
appeared, but she looked strangely familiar. Her hair was a bright
shade of green, which contrasted sharply to her shadowy aura. “Hi,
I’m Kiren. I don’t think we’ve been formally introduced,” she said,
extending her hand.
    Taylor shook her hand while looking at her
curiously. “Taylor. Do I know you from somewhere?”
    Kiren laughed. “Sort of. I go to the
University of Trinton with you guys, too. I actually live on the
same floor as you in