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“I have my eye on you, Sunstorm. You treat my sister right, or you’ll have to deal with the Angel of Chaos.” I pointed at myself.

Harker folded his hands together serenely. “I’ve been a perfect angel, I assure you.”

“That’s what I’m worried about.”

Contrary to our reputation, we angels were hardly ‘angelic’ in the human sense of the word.

“Bella is very eager to see Zane again,” Harker told me.

“I want to bring him home, but Nyx has insisted on running some tests. Nerissa checked him out physically last night. And Ivy is checking him out mentally today.”

That’s why Nyx had called Ivy away from Storm Castle.

Ivy rose from her seat. “Right, I’ll be talking to your brother starting in ten minutes. I just stopped by the canteen for a quick muffin and a chat with my favorite angel.” She winked at me.

Then she left. Alec left with her.

I watched Ivy walk away. “I wish Leila hadn’t poached Ivy and Drake from me,” I said to Nero. “They’re really good at what they do.”

“Poaching soldiers. Sounds familiar,” Harker commented.

I’d stolen some of his soldiers when I’d started the Purgatory office.

He winked at me. “How do you like the bitter taste of your own medicine?”

How do you like the bitter taste of your own medicine?I’d said something just like that to Faris last night. I hoped that didn’t mean I was just like my hypocritical father. That was one of my greatest fears, actually: to be just like my parents. I sure was living up to that standard nicely. If I continued on like this, by the end of the year, I’d be trying my hand at playing the game of world domination.

Nero and Harker were staring at me strangely, so I pulled my mind away from those foreboding thoughts.

“It’s only fun if I’m the one doing the poaching of soldiers,” I quipped.

Harker snorted.

“I guess we’d better get going,” I said with a heavy sigh.

The three of us stood up and walked out of the canteen. Angel trotted along after us.

“So, what are you boys up to today?” I asked them as we walked down the hall. Anything to get my mind off of my new assignment.

“It’s classified,” Harker told me.

I knew Harker was in town to work with Nero, but I didn’t know the nature of that work.

“Classified? By the Legion?” I asked.

“By me,” he replied.

We are going after a diary,Nero told me in my mind.

Thea’s diary?I asked. Bella told me it might hold answers about her past.

Yes. Bella seems to think her mother’s diary is some kind of grimoire. And that it’s hidden somewhere in Purgatory.

“I see. Well, good luck with that,” I told Nero and Harker aloud.

Harker frowned at Nero. “You told her.”

“Of course. She’s my wife. The mother of my child. We have no secrets.” Nero took my hand and kissed it.