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Lucifer’s eyes go wide with a bright smile. “Now there’s an interesting idea.”
“I’ll tell Lily,” Simon smugly says before leaving the office.
Lucifer smiles at Johnathan. “Remind me later to leave a thumbtack on his chair.”
19
Jude
The levity from the office disperses like vampires in the light of day as soon as we get down to the garage.
But I still feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing on edge. It’s like a malevolent force is watching over us, and I just can’t figure out where it’s coming from.
Putting my hand on my Glock doesn’t ease the feeling at all.
While we watch Thaddeus pull the SUV up to meet us, Simon takes me by the arm and pulls me back from the group.
“What is it?” Simon asks and looks down to where my hand is.
“I feel like someone’s been dancing a merry little jig on my grave for the last hour,” I say and look around the garage where not a single car or motorcycle is out of place.
Following my sweeping gaze, Simon nods his head. “I’ve been feeling it, too. I can’t place it, but Lucifer says it’s the battle fatigue setting in.”
The rest of the men seem at ease and it bothers me more than it should. “Perhaps, but I don’t like it.”
“Me, either,” Simon say then pulls me towards the SUVs open door.
Getting in the front seat of the car, I wait a moment before I turn to Thaddeus. “How was the drive in?”
Shrugging his massive shoulders, he mutters, “Full of assholes.”
“Anything of note?” I ask and hear Simon and Lucifer in the back going silent.
“Nothing I could see,” he answers, and that’s all he needs to say.
He didn’t see it, but he’s feeling the same damn thing Simon and I are feeling.
“Three out of four makes a majority vote, Matthew,” Simon says from the back.
“Yes, I suppose it does.” Lucifer sighs. “Send a message out to all the circle and put security on full alert.”
“Doing it right now,” Simon says, and even I get a text.
“Sorry,” Simon says. “It’s going to literally all of the inner circle.”
“When will Eric be arriving?” Lucifer asks after a moment of silence.
I can hear the smile in Simon’s voice and feel a chill down my spine. “Three weeks from today.”
* * *
Halfway to thewarehouse something that has been nagging me in the back of my brain comes to the surface.
It’s a very simple thought.
Misery loves company.
That’s the truest of sayings, even if I look only in this car for examples.
