Page 76 of When Monsters Fight
“Five minutes and we head to the next storage room along the way and wait for him to radio,” Zaq said.
Gabriel continued to hold me, and I gripped his arms, fingers flexing against his taut muscles as I counted down the seconds.
“We should go now.” Zaq cracked open the door. “Clear.”
We were on the move, but I wouldn’t relax until I heard Bastian’s voice on the radio.
Chapter 40
MICHAEL
There is nothing but blessed silence in the viewing room above our prize. This chamber is built to keep out sound. In this space, all is peaceful. All is power.
The Dominion have outdone themselves. My doubts have evaporated because they’ve succeeded where I now know I would have failed.
The vast room below me—the central chamber of our hub—glows with ethereal light from the energy of four relics and their anchor, each connected to the one being who can save us all.
Lucifer floats above the ground, her head tipped back, eyes white and sightless, body shimmering with power where the energy from the relics connects to her. Five connections passing through her and a sixth shooting out, up into the roof to feed the machine that will convert it into raw, pure, celestial power.
Enough power to fuel an army of celestials. Enough power to allow the higher echelon on this earth to never go hungry again, and the lower celestials…well, they’ll still have the humans to feed on.
Yes, we will nurture the humans. Feed them. Free them of disease so that they can contribute to the new order. This new engine of life.
Never will heaven rule us again.
I was wrong about the Dominion. They had a plan, and that plan is coming to fruition today, and tomorrow…Tomorrow I will satisfy my heart’s desire and conquer the thorn that plagues it.
Rue will need a protector. I will be it. I will bring her home.
The door to the viewing room opens, and a sentinel enters. “Supracelestia, we have a problem.”
“There are no problems, only solutions.”
“Yes, of course. But the hub is under attack. Watchers and humans.”
I arch a brow. “It is? How novel. Kill them all.”
“Even the humans?”
“If need be.”
“Very well. Some have breached the building.” He hands me a small screen which shows security footage of sector G of the facility.
My pulse leaps at the sight of the woman on screen.
“I’ve dispatched sentinels to intercept them.”
“No. Call them off.”
“Superacelestia?”
I give him a flat look. “Do not make me repeat myself.”
He bows and quickly exits, and I turn my attention back to the screen. Back to the small team who’ve managed to getinside our hub. Gabriel, always the strategist, but not today…Today he fails. Today he dies. But not her.
Not Rue.
She’s come for Lucifer, but she’s headed straight for me.
