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I made sure I showed him that and pleasured him too. We finally collapsed in a heap on the mattress after hours of lovemaking. I barely blinked and realized I was back in the Washington Monument.
Totally ass naked.
“Aeron!” I shrieked, diving under the covers.
“Ooh, naked Nephilim,” Dice muttered, pulling me to him.
“Angels are trying to sleep here!” Asher snapped.
“So, sleep. I’m going to snuggle with Speedy,” Leif said.
“Says you,” Aeron grunted. “I’ve got her.”
“Can I put some clothes on?”
“No!” three angels said in unison
Fuckers.
Chapter 14
I
woke up naked and alone with Asher again. He was sitting in front of one of the soundboards Dice stole from the van, wearing a headset. His back was to me, but he knew I was awake.
“Put some clothes on.”
I didn’t really care who saw me naked unless it came to Asher. I got dressed underneath the blanket and raided his mini-fridge. There was one container of rabbit stew left, so I heated it up.
“I can be left here alone you know, if you need to go hunting.”
Asher took his headset off and turned to me.
“Aeron is checking my traps. I wanted to tell you that you did a good job back there at the church and in the van. All the women did. They may end up killing Mae and her minions, but that’s on her. I told her to keep her mouth shut.”
“So, she wants her name back now?”
“She didn’t want to give me her name at all. I asked Saint Peter.”
“That’s all so weird to me. But thank you. Why did you tell her the truth like that?”
Asher sighed and looked deflated.
“Because it just makes me angry when people do all these horrible things, and say it’s because of my father. He had his vengeful fire and brimstonemoments in the past,sure, but he’s never been about forcing people to follow him. He’s not one of those people that wants others to follow him under duress. It pisses me off. I want these people to know they are wrong and just telling them isn’t enough. You have to show them. I half expected her to tell me I wasfake news.”
“I get that. I’m not understanding why you are trying so hard to save her life though. She was awful, and she’s not sorry about what she did. I don’t think any of those women are.”
“Oh, they aren’t. But Mae isn’t an anomaly. There are women like her all over the country, all over the world, too. They go by different names around the world. I’m not saving them out of the goodness of my heart. I’m making an example of them. If we just killed them, no one would know. If we put them on trial, we will document it. Everyone will know. If there are places like the cathedral around the country that we don’t know about, maybe it’ll give their neighbors the courage to rise up. Either that or contact us via radio so we can help. I’d love to kill them, don’t get me wrong, and they will eventually die, but not until I’ve put their rotten souls to good use.”
I nodded. I was totally on board with that. I got why we weren’t killing them. I didn’t think I’d call her Mae. She gave up her name when she became a Martha, and she had well and truly earned the title The Witch.
“So, where is everyone, and what are you listening to?”
I finally saw Asher smile. It was a genuine smile, and it was adamnsexy one.
“Dice can be very annoying when he wants to be, but his gadgets have saved our asses more than once. Aeron is usually his go-to for shit like this, but last night, he and I snuck into the Bubba camp and planted a microphone. Dice has it hooked up to this sound system. He even wired it into the bug he has in the Oval Office. All I have to do is press a button, and I can switch between listening to the Bubbas and the Antichrist.”
Fucking Dice. He was pretty much amazing. Was there anything he couldn’t do? All because we found the van of a band member who’d turned while they were trying to flee the city.
