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3. Medusa

I n a perfect world, we would have had a plan laid out for any choir of angels that could have shown up. We just didn’t have time. I had to figure out if I was actually a fury and how that worked if I was. Getting gods into Congress was pretty major, but the actual fight was always going to be with the angels.

Dinner was ruined. I mean, between Cas and Pepper, it was delicious, but the vibe was down. I guess we were hoping to get a night to celebrate before they showed up. As Benji would say, ‘rude.’ I agreed. But this was technically what we wanted.

Dionysus had properties everywhere, including D.C., so that’s where we’d be staying. We waited until Lucky and his team showed up. It was actually adorable. Lucky was a massive shifter and Pepper was a tiny human woman in her seventies. Lucky looked terrified of her.

“Sorry about your press conference, Ma’am. After the team that searched their houses got back to us about what was there and what they’ve done to our kind, we just wanted an excuse to knock them around a bit.”

If Lucky could partially shift like Benji could, his ears and tail would have been drooping. I was trying not to giggle because this situation really was fucked.

“Yes, well, no one would have been mad at you if you hit them a bit, but you had to involve capital police in your brawl and they didn’t do shit to you,” Pepper said, giving Lucky stink eye only a grandmother was capable of.

Pax was closest to me, so I buried my face in his chest to suppress my laugh. He just wrapped his arms around me and kissed the top of my head.

“Sorry,” Lucky grumbled.

“Well, I’ve got enough beds if some of you double up and I made plenty of food. Cas was helping me cook and was telling me about how you all have different dietary needs. It’s fascinating stuff. I think I’m prepared to feed you.”

“You don’t have to. We have a per diem for food.”

“Then you can use it to buy groceries. We’re going to be on break for the next few weeks. I don’t do well when I’m idle. If you’re going to be here protecting me, you’ll probably want me cooking for you because I’m a miserable cunt when I’m bored.”

Lucky started choking. I was pretty sure he wasn’t scared of anything criminal or supernatural, but Pepper Crane might be a little too much for him.

“We’re going to regroup and investigate,” Dionysus said. “We’ll call for backup if we need to.”

“Do that, but keep me posted. The president is up for reelection in two years and he’s terrified I’m going to run against him. He’s going to look like shit to voters if angels start killing people and he does nothing. I can make him call in reinforcements, too.”

I think we were all hoping she’d run against him. I couldn’t decide if having the president call for reinforcements was a good thing or not. On one hand, we might need the help. There would be supernaturals among them.

On the other, there might be plenty of humans who didn’t want us fighting with them. They could try to pick us off and claim it was the angels, or we got caught in the crossfire.

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