There were murmurings from the phone from the Warden side, and then I heard Nicolai ask, “So what’s the game plan, then?”

Zayne looked over at me.

What? I mouthed.

He raised his brows as his jerked his chin toward the phone, telling me this was my show basically.

Which I appreciated.

But I squirmed a little, unused to, well, to being in control of anything so major. “I think we...” I cleared my throat as I focused on the phone. “We need to move on him fast. Get as much of the element of surprise as we can, especially since he has to be aware of what’s happened with Zayne and that Lucifer is topside. The longer we wait, the more time it gives him to gather forces and prepare.”

Zayne’s gaze met mine when I looked up. He nodded as he said, “Agreed. We need to go at him fast and hard.”

“That sounds dirty, Stony,” Roth purred.

I shook my head at the phone.

“So, you’re thinking...what? We do this tomorrow?” Nicolai asked.

My stomach tumbled a little. Tomorrow. Less than twenty-four hours, and that seemed like nowhere near enough time to prepare myself for coming face-to-face with Gabriel again.

But truth was, I’d been preparing for this all my life.

My thoughts settled, along with my stomach. “Tomorrow,” I said, nodding. “Probably close to dusk. It will make it easier for us to get closer to the property instead of broad daylight. There’s a lot of trees surrounding it, based on the pictures Zayne found, so that should help.”

“Up to a certain point,” Zayne tacked on. “I’m sure he has eyes on the area, but based on the listing, it looks like the property is off a private access road in a fairly wooded area.”

“Which makes me think we should meet up at the closest but safest point,” I said.

“Agreed,” Nicolai said. “You have the entire clan backing you up on this.”

“And we have all the demons that have come here,” Roth said. “Is that going to be a problem? Wardens and demons working together?”

Zayne and I exchanged a look as we waited for Nicolai to speak.

“We got bigger problems than demons at the moment,” Nicolai said. “We will not engage any demons who are working toward the same goal as long as they play nice.”

“They’ll play nice,” Roth assured.

“Good,” Nicolai clipped out.

I smiled. Demons and Wardens working together to stop an archangel Hell-bent on ending the world. Who would’ve ever guessed that?

“I think we let him see only me first,” I said. “He’s going to know that others are with me, but hopefully not all we have on our side. We need that element of surprise.”

When Zayne didn’t disagree with that, I went on. “From there, it will be up to us to take care of Gabriel.”