Page 26 of The White Rider
“Why did Nephilim piss people off enough to kill them just for being born?”
“Says the girl who can paint the future. They inherited celestial abilities, but still had human weaknesses. One of them could get into a mood and destroy an entire city. There was too much that was unknown about them at first.”
That didn’t bode well for me. There wasn’t much known about people with my genetic makeup either, and Satan was my grandfather. I felt like my stomach was in my butt. Was I going to survive the apocalypse only to get killed by an angry angel for existing?
“That’s not going to happen to me… is it?”
Asher gave me a kind smile. He seemed way less annoyed with me today. It was progress.
“If it were going to happen, it would have by now. My father has a plan for you. It’s not Oval Office orgies, but you’ve helped Aeron and Leif just as much as they helped you.”
I broke into a smile and swatted at his arm.
“Was that a complimentanda joke?”
Asher started laughing and bumped me with his shoulder.
“Iamcapable of both. I’m sorry I was such a dick to you. I do get why you need to be there. I just want you to be properly prepared. He knows more about you than anyone else that will be there, and he will use that. If he abused you when you were a kid, and I’m fairly certain he did, he’s going to pull out everything he did back then.”
“Then, that’ll be his mistake. I’m not that scared little kid anymore. I got away from him, twice. Once was totally on my own, and the second time was with Aeron’s help. I’ve wanted him to pay for what he did to me long before I knew everything he did since the world went to shit. I’m not going to mess this up.”
“I get that, but expect anything when we get there. We need to be listening to Dice’s new device. The Bubbas were up in arms that some of their Marthas didn’t come home last night. They were organizing a scouting group to go check. They’ve probably found the present Aeron left behind. Want to listen?”
Fuck yes! Everything was going to plan. I wanted those fucking Bubbas as scared as the women they kidnapped and the men they killed were.
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wasn’t angry my boyfriends had left me alone with Asheragain.We cleared the air, and I was having a blast listening to the Bubbas with him. Asher had a brutal sense of humor, and I dug it.
They found the floral arrangement of body parts Aeron left behind. They realized all their Marthas were gone. They were coming up with some crazy-ass conspiracy theories to explain it that were all levels of racist.
“I’ll bet it was the Muslims. Only they would do that to a Christian church.”
“We killed all the Muslims we came across. This had to have been a large group to kill that many of our men and take our women.”
“What if it was the Chinese again? They could have snuck in by boat. We still don’t know why they turned everyone into zombies. What if they intend to round us up and eat us?”
“How are these dudes functioning?” I asked. “They do know about the resistance, right?”
“They can’t fathom the fact that other Americans are against Isaiah. They think the resistance is tiny because they only ever see them when they are out on raids. They immediately assume it’s the work of terrorists because they don’t get that’s what they are themselves.”
“We need to talk to the president. He’ll know who did this. Maybe the Rapture started, and they just didn’t know. Maybe they fought the angels to protect our Marthas, and no one explained themselves.”
Asher started giggling.
“They fought an angel all right. I’m not supposed to, and it makes my brothers mad, but I really want to show these yokels my wings!”
I held out my fist. He could bump it, or he couldn’t. It was a peace offering. Asher was pretty fucking cool. I liked throwing shade at the Bubbas with him. He bumped my fist.
“I wouldn’t mind you popping your wings out with them. Fuck what Aeron, Dice, and Leif might say.”
He was about to say something when the Bubbas started talking again.
“Do you think he’ll see us? He’s been an absolute bear since that radio show.”
“That’s because terrorists have his daughter, dumbass!”
