Page 52 of The White Rider
“I know there are plenty of multilingual people in this country. I also know that those assholes out there make it a point to harass people in Starbucks for speaking anything other than English.”
“Did it work?” I asked. “Is the resistance out, too?”
Dice just beamed at me.
“Never. Pestilence and War worked together on this one. Leif mapped out the path, and I built the bomb. Leif knew exactly where to tell them to hide to avoid the chloroform and how long to wait for us to give the signal. We lit a flare outside the Washington Monument before we came inside.”
“Pass the salsa,” Aeron said. “We just need to wait until the air is safe so we can round these bastards up and start healing the world.”
“And then have awe saved the entire worldorgy,” Dice said.
Asher sure perked the fuck up for someone who had been totally against joining #teamSpeedy from the start.
“The Oval Office should be clean, with no trace of any demons now. We should do it there.”
I socked Asher in the arm and hurt my hand.
“You allknewthe Oval Office orgy wasn’t going to go down like I thought because of all the minions outside. You just let me think it was because you like giving me a hard time. And I thought you were against it from the start, asshole!”
All four angels started laughing then, and I knew they were laughing at me.
“You turned this adorable shade of purple every time you denied we were going to fuck in there. You know we still can, right?” Aeron said.
“Yeah, but can we have ourwe killed the Antichristcelebration somewhere that didn’t have my childhood dreams crushed?”
“My hotel room back in Florida?” Dice suggested.
“Hello? You turned fucking Disney World into a military base. That certainly qualifies for destroying someone’s childhood.”
Asher shrugged.
“There’s an empty mega-mansion that was some lobbyist’s fourth home when they were in D.C that I crash at sometimes when I hate these mattresses enough. There are some serious walls around it, so looters haven’t picked over it. Here in D.C, you really only have the option to join the resistance or be taken over by the Bubbas. No one is squatting in empty houses. If I didn’t need them to think I was one of them, I’d live there full time.”
“Well, you don’t anymore,” Aeron pointed out. “We can stay there while you do your little trials. I still think we should have killed the lot of them. They fucking wanted to burn my girlfriend alive.”
I took that personally, by the way. I wasn’t a good person, no matter how many ways you tried to spin my life, but I’d still done better with it than those assholes that followed my father. I’d killed people since the apocalypse started, but they were either already dead, or it was done in self-defense.
These assholes went on raids to hunt down anyone who didn’t think like them. They killed the men and kidnapped the women. I had done none of that, but sure, Beavis, I was the one with a demon in me. Dickheads.
“But we stopped them,” Asher pointed out. “They will still get punished, but not until we’ve used them to serve our purpose. We’re making an example of them, remember?”
“Aeron should probably be kept away from our trials,” Dice pointed out. “He’s a spiteful little bitch, and especially now he’s got someone to protect.”
“Oh, shut up. So, we are we moving to Asher’s mini-mansionor are we having our carnal celebrations in the Oval Office?”
I threw a tortilla chip covered in salsa at Aeron’s face.
“The Oval Office is officially ruined for me. The painting came true. Stop trying to make fetch happen. We are doing this somewhere with a comfortable bed.”
All four angels knew we weren’t actually going to fuck in the Oval Office because the Bubbas still needed to be taken care of. They let me believe that and gave me a hard time about it. The paintingdidcome true, and I totally wanted to celebrate carnally with all of them.
I just wanted to do it in some dead rich guy’s fourth home instead of the room I just murdered my father and gotten cut up by demons in.
Chapter 31
W
hen it was finally safe to go outside, I knew what I had to do, and the Horsemen let me do it. They were okay with letting me out of their sight now that the primary threat was taken care of and all the little threats were passed the fuck out. There was no question what I was meant to do here.
