Mercy for the Damned by Lisa Olsen Read Free Book Online Page B

sheepishly.  “I’m just not supposed to talk about it much, and I’m still not really sure what I can do to help.”  I wasn’t aware of anything within my power to help knock Azazael out of Ben’s body. 
    “ No te preocupas ,” she waved away my concern. “You want to bind this dangerous angel, for how long?”
    “Does eternity seem like too much to ask for?”
    “That will take a lot of power, at least a circle of five, maybe seven,” she frowned, tapping with her finger again.  “I will have to put out the feelers, see who I can raise.  When are you looking for this to go down?”
    Parker and I traded looks again.  “See, that’s the thing.  We have to go bust our friend out of the demon realm first.  I don’t suppose you have a way to help us with that?”
    “You want to go to the shadowlands on purpose?” Her brows rose, as if I’d said the stupidest thing she’d ever heard. 
    “It’s not that I want to, but that’s where Ben is.  Trust me, if it was up to me I’d never go back there, ever again.”
    “Then you’ve been there before.  You don’t remember how you got there the first time?”
    “Of course I do, I just don’t know how to get past the gate guard.  He’s very… imposing.”  That was an understatement. I’d never met anyone who looked as capable of tearing a person limb from limb.   
    “That’s where they’re keeping her boyfriend too,” Parker contributed, and I shot him a look.  So much for pretending we were an item.  The first time a good looking woman came into it, he forgot his promise to me.  Typical. 
    “I thought you were her boyfriend?”
    “No, I’m available, Senorita,” he winked broadly.
    “ Que sorpresa ,” she smirked.  “I’m not.”
    “I’m devastated.”
    “I doubt it, but it’s sweet of you to say so,” she laughed.  “When are you looking to break your friend out?”
    “Soon,” I replied, happy to redirect the conversation away from Parker’s flirting.  “I don’t suppose you’ve ever heard of a way in or out of there besides through the main gate?  We have it under good authority that witches have found a way to travel there unnoticed.” 
    “I can’t help you there, I’ve never been into that dark shit before,” a shake of the head was given.  “I’ll put the word out though, into the great beyond.”
    “The afterlife?” Parker blinked.
    “The internet,” she smiled.  “Listen, why don’t you go do something manly and leave us alone for a little girl time.”  Luz made a shooing motion with her hands and Parker’s face fell.
    “Can’t I stay and watch?”
    “Parker!”
    “What?”
    “How about you play the quiet game for the rest of the day?”  As annoyed as I was with him for de-evolving back to the smarmy Parker I’d known for the past few years, I was dying to find out what Luz wanted to talk to me alone about.
    “Alright then, I’ll bid you ladies good bye.  But if either one of you need me for anything, anything at all…” he fixed his baby blues on Luz.
    “We know where to find you,” she finished his sentence for him.  “Is he always like that?”
    “Most of the time.  Actually he’s a pretty cool guy if you get to know him better.  But like most men, he turns into a drooling idiot when faced with a beautiful woman,” I gestured to her. 
    “He must drool all the time then,” she replied, her smile losing some of the edge it’d had when Parker was in the room. 
    “What did you want to talk to me about?”
    “You hear some weird shit when you hang out around the people I do.”
    “I can imagine.”  She was easily one of the strangest people I’d ever met, but not in a bad way, just… interesting.
    “I heard about what happened to you, when you got taken by the demons.”
    “I’m surprised you know who I am at all,” I frowned.  How exactly did something like that get around? 
    “Oh please, we have seen the signs coming for a long, long time.