Page 51 of The Angel's Kiss
Edgar sat back into the booth and shrugged. “How should I know?”
I didn’t like playing games. I allowed the indigo of my eyes to glow and I saw Edgar stiffen a bit, his jaw tightened as his eyes averted my gaze. “You better know something.”
He took a deep breath. “If I tell you, they’ll kill me.”
“Humans... leave,” I commanded.
“Hey, exile, you don’t run shit here,” shouted a demon. I turned to see he was one who’d been wheeling and dealing at a poker table in a game of life.
I pointed at him sending my Hellfire in his direction, igniting his body as he howled in agony. Immediately, humans screamed and raced to the door, climbing over each other in the melee to get free. Several demons also ran, those who had good sense at least. The demon who’d mouthed off to me was sent back to Hell for his trouble, the body he possessed burned to a crisp, but I controlled the fire so that it didn’t spread... not yet, at least.
I turned back to Edgar, who was staring at me with eyes as wide as he could get them. His mouth was open, and sweat shined on his face as more dripped from his pores.
“Well?” I asked.
“Ah... um... Grand Knight Azazel...” he stammered.
Good, he finally learned his place and was showing me my proper respect. “I don’t have all day.”
“Look, sir. I really don’t know much. I’m loyal to Empress Lilith, but everyone knows that there is a faction of demons who want to overthrow the hierarchy of empires. They want to bring Satan back and put him on his throne. They believe that’s his rightful place.”
“I know all this. Why are they looking for children?” I snapped.
Edgar licked his lips. “I just know rumors.”
“And they are?” I prodded, one eyebrow arched.
“That a seventh woman gave birth to a baby two thousand years ago.”
“But there were just six and the Guardians killed them,” I said, because that was what I was led to believe all these years.
“I know, but remember, I said these are rumors.”
“Fine, go on.”
“It’s said the seventh woman was kept hidden by a spell made from the blood of an Archangel.”
Now, I was shocked. “Whose?”
“Lucifer’s... Satan’s, I mean.”
If that was true, then maybe demons really did have a way to open his cell. “And so, this woman gave birth to a half demon—half human child who was kept hidden?”
“According to the rumor, it died.”
If it died, then why are demons still looking for its human offspring? “What else?”
Edgar shrugged. “That’s all I know, I swear, sir.”
I knew he was telling the truth. No being could ever get a lie past me, which was why I knew Rai had feelings for me no matter how much he tried to deny it. I nodded and rose from the chair and as I walked out of the door, I released my control over the fire that had killed the demon and allowed it to spread. More demons ran past me out of the building before I teleported away. Edgar was small fish in the demon world, but a good source of information because lower demons had their ears to the ground. Before I returned to Rai, I wanted more information. I needed to prove to my stubborn partner that I was more valuable than he wanted to admit.
Even though, he was so cute when he frowned up at me. I’d pretty much watched him grow up and my goodness, did he form into a man that made me want to have him scream my name. But first, I had to earn his trust, because he’d spent his life learning to fear me. I’d been told of the visions he had ofmy past, which I was certain was nightmare fuel for him as he grew up. I made no excuses for what I’d done. It was what I was supposed to do. Unlike humans, angels and demons didn’t have the choice to choose. Even now, I couldn’t decide to go back to how I was. This curse wouldn’t let me. I could only follow the path I’d been given, but I wanted Rai to walk it with me.
I wanted him to stop being afraid and distrusting of me. So, that was why I knew I had to bring him something he could use. And I thought it was time for me to collect on a favor.
***
I stood in the middle of the Garden of Eden, its location long since abandoned by its angelic Guards after Adam and Eve had been cast from it. The significance of this location was where Cain and Abel were born. It was the only place I could summon the Captain of Lilith’s army. He was the first human I’d made contact with. The jealousy he harbored for his brother wasn’t one of my making, nor did I make him want to kill his brother. All I did was tell him all of the uses a rock could have. It was Cain who decided to use it in violence and like with everything that happened in the Garden, if one gave into temptation, which was just human nature, they were punished.
