Chapter 12 Michael had felt the power surge from ahead in the tunnels and it called on his insatiable thirst for more demon blood. He smiled widely at the master demon in front of him… this one hadn’t been much of a fight and he was quickly becoming bored. The demon came at him with a feral growl and Michael took hold of its arms and slammed it against the wall. His body followed it, pressing against the creature and sank his teeth into the rough skin at its neck. Michael’s eyes drifted closed as he drank in its power, enjoying the growls and screams it released. Eventually the squirming stopped and Michael stepped back, letting the demon’s body slide down the wall and fall to the ground. Tilting his head back, he took a deep breath and hissed through his teeth when the usual power surge didn’t come as quick as before. It didn’t take him long to figure out why… the eruption of power further up the tunnels had called to him and made this meal hardly seem worth it. With a

Chapter 14 Tabatha and Aurora hurried through the subway tunnels, each female using their supernatural bond to locate Kane and Skye. They’d been feeling the earth under their feet tremor off and on almost like a ripple effect and cringed each time the roof above them dropped dust on the ground. “I wonder what that light was,” Tabatha said nervously. She’d seen it touch a demon and a human at the same time and they’d both had completely different reactions to it. Where the demon withered into a pile of dust right behind the human, she could have sworn the human had taken a deep breath then smiled as if he’d just found true happiness. “Whatever it was, it had the power to purify evil,” Aurora answered. “I wish I’d had some of that power in the demon realm… of course then I guess I would have been lonely after a while being the only one in the land of ash.” She smirked at her own joke then stopped mid stride. She swallowed feeling Michael’s heartache and placed her hand over her

Chapter 16 “Are you sure you don’t want to give me a bottle of that spritzer?” Jade asked as they pulled into the police parking lot. “What, and make it easier for you to sneak off and get yourself killed?” Titus asked borrowing a little bit of the sarcasm she’d been using on him for the last hour. “Thanks, but no thanks.” He jerked the Hummer in park and turned the vehicle off. Jade hadn't meant it like that, but if he wanted to go there then whatever. “Fine, if all of the men start lining up… do not blame me. Besides, I’ve always been a sucker for a man in uniform,” she lied. She flinched when the driver side door slammed and Titus was suddenly standing in front of her, blocking her from getting out of the Hummer. She didn’t fight him when he reached out, palming her waist with his big hands and lifted her out of the vehicle but she did inhale sharply when he pulled her flush against him and let her slide down his body until she was standing on her own two feet. Titus