Gary’s room had a stimulating view of the hospital parking lot. Outside, the sun had risen, and it was a new day. I needed to sleep, but I doubted I’d be able to. May as well get straight to work. I called Steve as I walked out of Gary’s room.

“I’m at work,” he murmured when he answered. Steve worked at Samael’s tower. I didn’t know exactly what he did, but it was something to do with tech and security systems.

“I need a solid.”

“What’s wrong?”

I filled him in and he cursed. “I’m sorry to hear that.”

“Yeah. I’m going to go threaten some of the people who own stores around Gary’s until they hand over their security footage. Can I send it to you?” Steve was great at cleaning up bad video.

“Sure.”

“I’ll owe you another one.”

“This one is on the house.”

My eyes burned and I rubbed them. “I appreciate it.” I glanced at my phone screen as it beeped. “My sister’s calling, I’ll talk to you later.”

I switched calls. “Evie?”

“Dani, you need to get here. Now.” She sounded frantic. In the background, someone snarled.

“Where are you?”

“I took the boys out for breakfast. Someone set up some kind of magical bomb on our route and the car flipped.”

“Jesus. Are you okay? Are the kids okay?” I was already running down the corridor toward the elevator. I pressed the button, cursed, and headed for the stairs.

“We’re all fine. Gemma had the car spelled just in case anything like this happened. They couldn’t break through the ward.”

“Are you still in the car?”

“Yeah. It’s upside down. I can hear an ambulance though.”

“Is anyone hurt?”

“We’re all okay.”

“Don’t trust anyone except your coven and Samael’s demons. Promise me.”

“I promise.”

I hung up and called Samael. It would take me ten minutes to get to my sister, but she was just a couple of streets from his tower.

“Danica.”

“My sister–”

“I know. I’m on the way.”

My heart thumped. “Thanks.”

I hung up, sprinted down the last few stairs and hauled ass to my car. It didn’t escape me that I’d just called the very demon I’d been contemplating killing earlier. And I hadn’t even hesitated. The moment I’d known my sister was in danger, I’d reached out to him.

I’d wrestle with that later.

By the time I arrived, paranormals were surrounding the empty car.

“Evie?”

“Over here,” she called. I turned. She was sitting in the back of an ambulance, one of the kids on either side of her. Samael stood a few feet away, talking to Vas and Bael.

“I’m sorry, Danica. I didn’t see it coming.”