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riverfront I’m risking my life. But shit, by not being here I’m also risking my life. The stakes are just as high whether I’m here fighting or relaxing on the beach in Cabo. All things considered, I’d rather go down trying to fight this thing.
    “Azrael is pinned down just north of the portal,” Uriel says. “You could swing around the city and give him a hand.”
    Nal looks at her with a measure of surprise. “And you are just now telling me this?”
    “You have enough on your mind,” she says. “Besides. He is in no danger.”
    “It’s going to be hard enough to stop that portal from opening with two angels out there fighting. Damn near impossible with one unable to contribute.”
    “I got him,” I say. Azrael has come through in the pinch for me more times than one. If there is even a slight chance I can get him out of there, I’m going to do it.
    “He is pinned on the north side of the Eads Bridge, behind the debris,” she says.
    “Sara is up by the car with a woman I rescued from one of the cars. Can you keep an eye on her while I take care of this?”
    Nal nods. “She can help with with the rescue effort.”
    On the other side of the highway I see Sara hunched down next to the woman I saved earlier. The woman is sitting on the ground leaning on the car, her hands and knees bandaged using part of the spare outfit Sara keeps in the trunk.
    “She going to make it?” I say, kissing Sara on the forehead.
    “She’ll be fine. Might need a few stitches below her knee.”
    The woman smiles up at me though quickly lowers her head when I grab Sara’s hand and lead her a few steps away.
    “I have something I need to do,” I say. “Az is in trouble.”
    She looks up at me, tears in her eyes. “I don’t want you to go. But, I know you have to.”
    I kneel next to her, hand caressing her cheek. “I don’t have to do this. If you want me to say, I will.”
    She shakes her head before placing her hand on mine. “If Azrael is in trouble, you should go help him. You know he would do it for you.”
    I nod my head. He has. Not every day you get the opportunity to return the favor to an angel.
    “Nal said he can use your help tending to the ones under the bridge.”
    “Did he now,” she says with a smile. “Maybe it will keep me from worrying about you.”
    “I’ll be back,” I assure her. “I always come back.”
    She walks to the back of the car and opens the trunk. “Then do something for me,” she says.
    “Anything.”
    She reaches into the car and pulls out one of my outfits. “Wear this.”
    I should have seen that coming the moment she walked back there. I’m not about to fight her on this though. If wearing that makes her happy and calm, then it’s the least I can do.
     
     
     
    “I missed seeing you in that,” she says, placing the cassock in my collar.
    I find it hard to believe, but I almost miss wearing it. It takes me back to a time when things were much more simple. A time when I didn’t have to think, only react. Just the mindset I’ll need down close to the battle.
    “If the shoes fit…” I say before planting the wettest kiss I can on her. I know she wouldn’t want me to admit it, but this might just be the last time I see the gal. I want to have a fresh memory of her in case that happens.
    She opens the car door for me in a reverse case of chivalry. When I’m in the seat with my seatbelt attached, she leans through the window for one last kiss.
    “I love you,” she says through a smiling face, though her eyes give the truth away.
    “I love you too.”
    I adjust the mirrors, noticing the porcelain wedding doll laying in the back seat.
    “You should take this,” I say, holding it out the window.
    She shakes her head. “You can keep her safe too.”
    I put the doll in the passenger seat, buckling it up so it doesn’t fly around.
    Sara steps back from the car when I put it into drive. I blow one last kiss to her when I step on the gas.
    Three blocks later, the