The Godsverse Chronicles

A squad of demons patrolled the perimeter and roof of the walled building. It wasn’t abnormal for complexes in South Africa to have their own security, but it was unusual for them to be demons.

Whenever my clients complained that things were taking too long, I would remind them that if they paid more, it would go faster.

I tried to put it out of my mind for the next week, but something didn’t sit right with me about how things ended in Seattle, and it wasn’t just missing out on five million dollars.

It took a half-hour to raise the boat and for the bunny to recover the information I needed, but it was well worth the wait.

By the end of a single day, the phone must have rung a dozen times, and the cockroach diligently answered every single one but never made an outbound call.

What a convoluted mess. All I wanted was for Benny’s people to call off the hit on me, and now I was running around Washington State like a chicken with my head cut off, trying desperately to do what?

I pushed out my chair and stood up. As I did, several guns locked on me from around the restaurant.

It didn’t take long to cross Seattle. Compared to LA, just about every other city was tiny, and you could make it across any of them in less than half an hour.

Dexter had a dock manager named Gordon on his payroll who worked at the top of a tall building overlooking the whole of the dock.

I returned to Claudia’s vet clinic again because if I was going to find out who put out a hit on Benny, I needed to be able to talk to him.

Gino’s was close to the water across Seattle from Ratinger’s Drug in the circuitous maze that was Pike Place Market, a mesh of poorly planned buildings.

While the rat had still been sleeping, I told Claudia everything I knew about the murder.

Before I headed into the sewer to chase down a mangled rat, I needed equipment. I stopped by a pet shop and picked up a carrier, some rat food, and bandages to tie up the animal’s wound.

Phil didn’t love the idea of my mother hanging out with him and Candy, but he conceded that having a frigging angel for protection until this all blew over would be a logical move.

I rolled my eyes behind my sunglasses without replying and disappeared into the portal.

Carl forced me to finish watching Jaws before we started the job, which didn’t bother me one bit. I needed a moment of big, dumb fun.

A medical table lowered from the ceiling and spread across the counters on either side of the room.

A gang of demons wanted me dead, and now I had Benny’s crew breathing down my neck.

I had no doubt that I could survive the attack, but bullets still stung something fierce, and I had no interest in getting the wind knocked out of me or nursing welts for the next two weeks.

The three orcs, decked out in battle armor, would lead the charge with their snub-nosed shotguns.

The views in the Hills were majestic but getting there was like navigating through the favelas of a third-world country, with roads barely wide enough for one car.