Evenstar by Darcy Town Read Free Book Online

white and iron of the Solomon Soldiers.   She cranked on the wheel and cut across traffic.   The car followed.   Belial watched them in her mirrors.   “Everyone duck .”
    Jacob and Tracy got low in their seats.   Iron bolts pierced the car where their heads would have been.  
    Belial cringed.   “Jacob, pull the ones out of the back of my seat please, thanks.”
    Jacob kept low and grabbed at the metal.   He held the bloody bolts in his hand.   “What do I do with them?”
    Belial looked at him in the mirror.   “Don’t let them touch Tokala, but besides that I don’t fucking care.   Start a collection if you want.”
    Jacob gulped.   “Kay.   They can’t touch him because they’re iron right?”   She nodded.   He dropped the bolts under the seat and stayed low.   “So you’re a fallen angel, he’s a fairy or something, and Dahlia is involved in this somehow?”
    Belial swerved the car.   “Jacob, I’m kind of busy right now.”
    He nodded.   “I can’t help it.   I talk when I’m nervous.”
    Belial slammed on the brakes.   The chasing car swerved and plowed into a truck.   She snickered and hit the gas.   “As long as I don’t have to answer, talk as much as you like.   You guys can sit up now.”
    Jacob did not change his position.   “Those people are trying to kill us.   No one’s tried to do that before.”
    A phone went off at Tracy’s feet.   Everyone’s eyes swiveled to it.   Belial held out her hand.   “Yours?”
    Tracy shook her head.   “No, I lost mine and my purse.”   She handed the phone to Belial.  
    Belial flicked it open.   “Yes?”   There was angry shouting on the other line.   She smiled.   “Your men were killed, violently .   Have a nice day.”   She broke the phone into pieces and tossed them out the window.
    Jacob popped his head back up.   “Why didn’t you keep it?”
    “They probably are able to track it somehow.”
    “We could have used the phone though.”   Tracy looked through the glove compartment and pulled out a set of pistols.   She shoved them back in the glove compartment.
    Belial shook her head.   “Good idea in theory except all of our phones were destroyed back at the house.   Paimon might have one, but he probably blew it up accidentally.”
    “Paimon?”   Tracy looked over.   “Was that Monty?”
    “Yes.”
    “Yeah, he lit on fire and made this huge explosion.   He threw fireballs at the angels.”
    Belial smiled.   “Sounds about right.”
    Jacob looked at Tokala and Celeste.   “Can we contact our friends or family?”
    “No.   I am not drawing more of your kind into this.   People are going to get killed and you guys need to accept that real quick.   If you want your loved ones to stay loved and alive then you do not contact them.   This is dangerous for you too; I already have to modify my plan to include you guys.”
    “Plan?”
    “Go east; well that was the original idea.”   She checked signs along the road.   “But now I need to get Tokala to a good healer and the only one I know of that’s working aboveground is in Arizona, so that’s where we’re going.”
    Jacob looked at the iron bolts.   “He’s an elf, or something isn’t he.”
    Belial laughed and merged onto a highway heading south.   “Pointy ears and everything.”
    Jacob pulled back Tokala’s hair.   “Whoa.”
    Tracy hugged her knees to her chest.   “His brother Nodin, he’s one of these fairies too?”
    “Yep.”   Belial looked at them both.   “Now shut up and get some sleep while you can.”
    Jacob nodded.   “Wake us up when you need to switch off.”   He took in her expression.   “You don’t sleep.   Got it, right, that makes sense.   Okay.   Goodnight.”   He closed his eyes and sank into an exhausted sleep.
    Tracy stared out the window at the starry sky.   Her lips curved into a slight smile.   “A fairy.   No wonder Nodin was an amazing lover.”
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