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more people choose it over your boss.”
    Jeremy actually sighed and turned his attention to Luca. Anna used the distraction to grab onto Colin’s hand, but she had no way of letting Andrew know what this demon was trying to do.
    “Of all people, you should know how hopeless your situation is. If it were as simple as people choosing sides, you’d be dead by now.”
    Luca was unperturbed. “Didn’t you ask Anna this same question? About believing our side was so much stronger? I’ve got the same answer, asshole. We may not be stronger, but we are so much better .”
    Jeremy spread his arms around him and kept that sardonic smile in place. “And yet, here we are.”
    He turned his attention back to Colin, and Luca knew what he was doing, too, and tried to distract him again, but this time, Jeremy wasn’t playing along.
    “And what would you be willing to sacrifice for your wife?” he asked.
    Colin didn’t answer him.
    This seemed to piss off the demon; they didn’t like being ignored anymore than they liked waiting around. The demon’s eyes narrowed and he took a step closer to the group, but a voice behind them made them all stop. And Colin and Anna knew that voice so well.
    “Leave him alone, Adriel,” The Angel warned.
    “ No,” Anna thought. She wouldn’t let herself turn around. Colin wouldn’t turn around either even though the other hunters did. Their Angel shouldn’t have come here. She was defenseless, helpless against this demon, and her life would be far more valuable to this fallen angel than any hunter’s.
    Jeremy seethed and hissed through his teeth, “Zadkiel. Of course you would sacrifice yourself for humans.”
    “ Zadkiel? So Zadkiel is not a ‘he’ after all?” Colin wondered.
    Anna thought of all things to find astonishing at the moment, the gender of their angel was at the bottom of their list. “ Angels don’t have a gender, Colin. You know that. She has chosen to appear a certain way to us. And who she is shouldn’t surprise either of us.”
    Colin agreed, but after three and a half centuries of not knowing who their angel really was, he figured Anna couldn’t really blame him for his surprise. He had never expected to find out while they were still alive.
    The Angel stepped closer to Colin and Anna and they both reflexively moved in front of her, keeping their eyes on the demon before them. The Angel may be willing to die for them, but they were just as willing to die for her.
    “You know I would,” she answered. “And I wish I could say I was surprised to discover it was you here. Your kind should have never been created.”
    The ground shook beneath their feet as the demon’s anger channeled into the orange-red earth. But he wasn’t so angry that he forgot there were five hunters protecting this angel, and for some reason, he couldn’t immobilize Anna as he had in the past.
    “Take that issue up with your boss,” Jeremy spit out, his teeth gritted, but The Angel was right. Even Heaven could make mistakes, and angels of death and destruction never should have been created. Most of their kind had already fallen. Once the rules governing the battle between Heaven and Hell were codified, and it was determined that angels could no longer fight, those angels whose sole existence had been to fight for Heaven had no purpose. Anna and Colin were surprised this angel had held out as long as he had.
    “I didn’t make the rules, Adriel.”
    Jeremy’s hands curled and uncurled into fists as he glared between the O’Conners and The Angel. Anna noticed Luca had let go of her arm and had moved to The Angel’s side and Andrew had moved to her other side. Dylan wasn’t far away from her either. This was his angel, too. But angels, unlike humans, didn’t have souls. There was no afterlife for them. If she were killed now, she would simply cease to exist. None of the hunters were willing to let her die for them.
    Jeremy finally took a small step back from the group, just one
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