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impatient for the time when all angels would be unleashed and the enemy would be overthrown once and for all. When time ended and eternity began.
    Until then, Jag wasn’t backing down. The scene about to play out tonight was all too familiar. He’d already failed on a day like this one.
    While the demons hissed and spat at him, Jag remembered. The years faded and Jag was there again. That Angels Walking mission had also been in Los Angeles. Jag had been assigned to protect a man of great faith, a police officer. Terrance Williams was his name. He had been called to testify against one of the city’s most notorious drug dealers.
    There had been only two days left in the trial when Jag failed.
    Up until that point Jag had kept Terrance Williams safe at every turn. Two hit men had been assigned the job of killing the officer. In the weeks that led up to that fateful day, Jag had found ways to distract Williams, ways that had saved his life. Jag had also created obstacles for the killers, delays that had kept the men from carrying out the murder.
    The whole time Jag knew the situation. The murder was the bad guys’ only hope to avoid a guilty verdict. If the trial reached a guilty verdict before the hired guns could kill Williams, then the deal was off. No hit, no payment. No point.With only two days left in the trial, Jag was hovering behind Officer Williams’s car when the man stopped at his son’s school.
    This was not part of the plan.
    Jag hadn’t known that on that day the man’s son was in a class play, or that the boy had invited his father to watch. Jag had missed that. Even now, with a host of demons threatening him, Jag could see what had happened that day. Terrance Williams had parked his police car across the street from the school and gone inside. Jag had been nervous, his instincts on high alert. His Angels Walking partner had been across town, working behind the scenes at the courthouse.
    So Jag was alone.
    He stayed in the auditorium with Officer Williams for the entire hour-long school program. It was an hour Jag could still remember, every detail. The boy attended a Christian school and that day he sang a solo from the front of the stage. “How Great Thou Art.” Halfway through the performance Jag saw Terrance Williams wipe tears from his eyes.
    The boy was ten years old and everything to the man.
    Which created a problem. What if Terrance decided to take the boy home with him early? For weeks, when Terrance picked his son up, Jag had his Angels Walking partner with him. Together they had been able to protect both father and son.
    But that day Jag could feel the demons, same as he could feel them now. Without his partner he would be outnumbered if a battle ensued.
    Long before the program was over, Jag knew the hit men would be waiting for Williams, their guns trained on him fromthe moment he left the school. They had followed him here. Jag knew he would have to appear like one of the parents picking up their child at school.
    But he had wondered if his efforts would be enough.
    As the program ended, Jag had materialized in a hallway outside the auditorium. He looked like any other parent as he walked into the crowded room. Quickly he found Terrance Williams and his son, Ryan. Jag had walked up and put his hand on Ryan’s shoulder. “Hello. You’re Ryan Williams, right?”
    The child looked startled. Same with his father. Officer Williams stepped forward. “I don’t believe we’ve met.”
    “I’m Jag. My nephew Billy Goodall is in Ryan’s class.” Jag smiled. But he could see the confusion on the officer’s face.
    “How do you know Ryan?” The man pulled his son close.
    “Ryan’s been a good friend to my nephew.” It was true. Information Jag had picked up during the mission. “Billy gets picked on by the other kids, but Ryan . . . he stands up for Billy.”
    Ryan smiled and looked at his dad. “Billy’s my friend.”
    Jag remembered feeling desperate. He was out of ideas. He