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half-step, just enough to indicate he wouldn’t fight them today.
    “What is it about this couple you have worked so hard to protect, Zadkiel? That you’d be willing to die for them?”
    The Angel put one of her thin, delicate hands on each of the O’Conners, but her eyes never left the demon. “It’s love, Adriel. Something you obviously never understood.”
    Jeremy scoffed, unsatisfied by her answer, but Anna and Colin both knew it was true. The Angel never lied. She had come simply because she loved them and had been afraid for them, and she didn’t need any other reason.
    “I suppose then, Zadkiel, we’ll be meeting again,” Jeremy hissed. And then he vanished.
    Colin and Anna expected The Angel to disappear now, too, but she didn’t. She held onto their arms just as she had been, and they finally turned around to look at her. They were both glad they hadn’t turned around before. She had been frightened, and if they’d seen that expression in her eyes before, the O’Conners were certain they would have been the ones to act foolishly and recklessly.
    The Angel’s pale gray eyes were studying Colin, and a small smile finally played at her lips. “How are you doing this, Colin? Protecting Anna with this gift?”
    Colin shook his head. He still didn’t know how he was doing it. He’d only discovered he could because they’d been attacked and he’d been desperate to defend her. Since then, he’d practiced wrapping the energy that existed naturally in the world around her like a shield dozens of times to make sure he could , but he had no clue how he was doing it. It came far easier to him than using their gift as a destructive force. They were still working on controlling it as a weapon.
    The Angel’s smile broadened. “I shouldn’t be surprised. If anyone could figure out how to use this power as a defense, it would be you to protect Anna.”
    “He could have killed you,” Anna whispered, and she knew it was a ridiculous thing to say. The Angel obviously already knew that.
    “And he could have killed Colin,” The Angel responded. Anna suspected The Angel knew Anna wouldn’t argue with her after that.
    Luca finally felt convinced that the demon had, in fact, left the area and turned to look around him. “I don’t guess you know who the other two fallen angels are.”
    The Angel shook her head, but her long flaxen hair wasn’t disturbed by the motion of her head or the breeze in the air. “No, I didn’t know Adriel was one of them until he showed up here.”
    “But my angel wanted me to remember this particular demon in Berlin in 1923. It had a new boss, a recently fallen angel. You guys must know which angels fell and when?”
    “Time is measured differently for us, Luca. I’m not sure that’s as helpful as you think. Adriel fell over five hundred years ago, but to us, that’s quite recent. And not all fallen angels decide to command legions on Earth. The demon you chased down in Berlin obviously had a new boss, but that particular angel could have fallen thousands of years ago.”
    Dylan groaned. Hell had to make everything so complicated. “Then what’s the connection? Between Jeremy, I mean the real Jeremy, and that dream Luca’s angel had them remember?”
    “Other than his suspicion that one of the demons commanding a new legion is one of the demons you’re fighting now, we just don’t know. But we agreed that Jeremy is being protected and you won’t be able to kill him. If there’s a way to undo his possession, it may be the only way to save him.”
    “Any ideas on where we should even start looking for that kind of information?” Dylan asked.
    The Angel smiled at him. “It’s only a guess. Remember, this world isn’t ours either. You often know it better than we do. But don’t be so ready to discount those people who claim to be able to talk to the dead. Most of them are con artists, like you’ve suspected, but if some are them telling the truth, they may be far more