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“Let him go,” I said, my tone definite. “Untie him and let him go.”
“So he can bring his friends back here? I don’t think so.”
“Then blindfold him, take him somewhere out of the way, and then run.” I paused, the words all rushing to my tongue. I needed to choose them right. “But then, please, let him go.”
“Can’t do that, sweetheart. You see, this angel isn’t innocent and?—”
I groaned. “Holy shit, stop!”
Levi’s eyes hardened. “If you don’t want to see me work, sweetheart, you’re welcome to go.”
“I might just?—”
“Ariella,” the angel croaked.
I stilled for three seconds, shocked, and then turned to him. “Yes. I’m here.” I wanted to reach for him, to help him stand straighter, but I was afraid that wherever I touched him, it would hurt. “Are you okay? Can I get you anything?”
Stupid questions, but they blurted out of my mouth.
The angel lifted his head and fixed his eyes on mine. His mouth quivered, his shoulder shook, and I thought he was crying. Until his mouth contorted in a big smile and he laughed.
I took a step back.
“We’ve been searching everywhere for you, angel-killer,” the angel said, his voice raspy. “The guardians will find you, they will capture you, and they will ki?—”
Levi punched the angel’s face, the sound of a crack echoing through the place. I gasped and startled back.
But the angel laughed and faced us again, his cheekbone clearly broken. “And you, Leviathan, are going down with her.” He smiled at me, blood in his teeth. “We were told you had sided with demons. Now I have proof.”
Levi grabbed his hair and pulled his head up. “Answer me, you motherfucker. Who sent you? Who is spreading lies about Ariella?”
Lies? Levi believed me.
“No one is lying,” the angel said. “She betrayed her kind and killed a dozen angels. The entirety of Elysium knows about it.”
My stomach twisted in knots. I knew every angel in Elysium must have heard about it, must have believed it, because why wouldn’t they when the famous, powerful Archangel Rhodes told them so?
But to think my mother and my sister believed them too … that made me sick.
I frowned. “It’s not true.”
“If it’s not true, then why don’t you face us? Why don’t you bring the dagger and turn yourself in?” the angel asked. I froze at the mention of the dagger and Levi glanced at me, eyes narrowed. “We are good, righteous beings. We would give you a fair trial and?—”
Levi closed his hand around the angel’s throat, squeezing it. “You just said you’ll capture her and kill her. That she’s done for. I don’t hear anything about a fair trial in that statement.”
The angel smiled, even though it had to be hurting. “You’re smart for a demon.”
I pressed a hand to my stomach.
This angel … he wasn’t behaving like an angel. He wasn’t good and righteous. He was calculating and almost as evil as a demon.
“Who sent you? What do you know about me?” The words blurted out from my lips before I could stop them. I pressed a hand to my mouth in horror. “No, no, no.” I took two steps back. “I’m not doing this.”
I glanced at Levi. He didn’t seem one bit worried about this, about my feelings. It looked like a fun game for him.
And it made me sick.
I turned and ran.
