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Adrian.”
    “ Okay,” I said, rubbing my
temples. “I can understand your reasoning. My feelings over the
craziness of your plan aside, what do you want me to
do?”
    “ I need someone I can
trust, a person who hasn’t already proven willing to switch sides,”
he told me, holding eye contact this time. “I have pressure on me,
and right now I’m doing this alone. Failure isn’t an option. Adrian
could unleash war on Heaven at any time, so I need to work quickly,
and mistakes can’t be made. The other Archangels will give my plan
only one chance. I can’t keep tabs on the lost souls all the time,
so I need someone I can trust. You, mistake that you are, are the
perfect answer. Someone who isn’t a demon, but is not yet an angel.
Someone who will by my ally. I want to believe this group is
capable of reform, that they can be saved, but I can’t rely on them
blindly.”
    “ You want me to team up
with your demon reform students?” My voiced cracked on the word
‘demon’ and I backed away. No. Just no. That was beyond nuts. And
aside from that, how the hell was I going to do that without being
killed? He’d just promised to keep me safe from those creatures,
and now he was asking me to go after them with him?
    If one of them decided it wanted to
cash in on my life, I’d be done for. “One almost killed
me.”
    “ I don’t know why,
though,” he argued. “Which is strange. Demons go after souls. They
don’t go around murdering random humans, which means they know
there is something different about you. I intend to find out what
that is and why they feel they need to kill you because of it. In
the meantime, you can make sure the demons coming to our side stay
in line, keep me updated on their progress. I need someone I can
trust to tell me the truth. If one demon tried to foil these plans
by coming to our side and turning coat, the result could be
disastrous.” He paused to let me digest that.
    Effectively, then, I would be a spy
for him in the group of demons. I would be in charge of making sure
they stayed in line. I still didn’t know why he thought I could
handle that, though, and I frowned at him. Putting me with a bunch
of demons sounded like an insane idea—even if they were supposedly
“good” demons.
    “ You will learn to use
your powers,” he told me with a smile. “You will discover
everything you can do, learn defense. Learn to fight the demons
that hunt you. And I have the perfect teacher in mind. She can
protect you until you can take care of yourself. Until we find out
why Adrian wants you dead.”
    I eyed him, feeling uneasy. Learning
to control my powers. I was going to need that to survive. And to
save Ash.
    “ Who?” I asked. An angel
trainer would be helpful, but if he trusted this girl so much why
wasn’t he putting her in charge of these demons?
    “ She was one of the
strongest angels I knew,” he told me with a half smile. “She was
resilient, and incredibly powerful.”
    “ Was?” Did he think that
was going to slip by me? I wasn’t that stupid. She was a strong angel,
meaning she wasn’t one anymore. She could be dead, a ghost, but I
doubted that was the case here. Could angels even die? Could they
become ghosts?
    Then I realized. If she wasn’t an
angel, there was really only one other possibility. My teacher
would be a lost freaking soul, which meant I was going to be taught
how to be an angel by a demon. Every time I thought this situation
couldn’t get any worse, it did. I stared blankly at him, hoping
this was a sick joke.
    “ Her name is Kali,”
Michael replied.
    Okay, not a joke then, if she had a
name and everything.
    “ She stopped the last war
in Heaven before becoming a demon.”
    I let out a shaky laugh, knowing that
was meant to comfort me. “Redeeming qualities aside, the girl is
still a demon. How do you know she’s not one of the assassins sent
to kill me?”
    “ She is important,”
Michael replied passionately. “She was a friend, and she