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looking around the room for anything that they could use.
    Alexandra pointed with her chin. “The bag!”
    He grabbed it and began emptying the contents onto the uneven stone floor. “What do you need?”
    “I don’t know! What’s in there?”
    Joshua smiled as he pulled a miracle out of the bag.
    “Perfect!” she said.
    Joshua tore off strips from the sticky fabric-like roll and quickly duck taped the cork to the jar. As an added measure he then wrapped some long strands another few times around to make sure it stayed in place.
    Alexandra let go and the cork remained seated firmly in place. Only then did she allow herself a moment to exhale. She dropped to the floor and stretched out her sore legs. She looked across the space at her fiancé and smiled. “Good thinking,” she said.
    Joshua held up the roll and shook it back and forth in his grip. “Never leave home without it,” he said with a laugh.
    Alexandra joined him and they laughed until their sides hurt. Ithad been a close call but they had won and the case was closed. It would bring much needed income to Alexandra’s fledgling practice and word of mouth of her success couldn’t hurt matters any either.

T he building that housed the OAGI was as nondescript as they come.
    Housed on the second floor of a four story walk up not too far from her apartment in Soho, The Office of Angel Guides was one of those places a person could pass daily without noticing, but one that stood out like a beacon when someone required their services.
    Alexandra Holzer had spent a good deal of time visiting the OAGI over the years, first with her father and later on her own or with Joshua. Although Joshua wasn’t a fan of the place, Alexandra loved her visits. The OAGI was magical.
    Samuel Esau ran the place. She knew it wasn’t his real name, of course, but the man was a master at evading the question each time she asked it. Eventually, she realized it was a lost cause and gave up trying to wheedle the information out of him. Whatever his true name was, Samuel was her contact to The Light.
    Thankfully, she liked Samuel.
    Joshua pulled the van into the alley next to the OAGI’s building. There was a sign stating that the alley was for loading and unloading only, which never stopped her from parking there. Technically, she was dropping off something this time.
    “Wait here,” she told Joshua. “I’ll get Samuel and we can get these things unloaded.”
    “Hurry back,” Joshua said, rubbing his gloved hands together to keep them warm. “It’s cold out here and these things give me the creeps.” He chucked a thumb over his shoulder to the cargo they carried.
    “I’ll be back before you know it,” she said before disappearing around the corner.
    A bell above the door chimed when she entered the second story office. As it did every single time, the sound made Alexandra laugh. Once, when she was younger, Alexandra had quoted a line from one of her favorite movies,
It’s A Wonderful Life
. She had reminded Samuel “every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings.” She didn’t understand why her friend found that so funny back then. These days she had abetter idea why it made him laugh.
    They had been friends ever since.
    The office was simple, to say the least, and had changed very little since she had first visited as a child. Wood grain paneling covered the walls, giving the space an earthy feel. The wall to the left of the entrance was covered with a mural of a forest that only added to that outdoorsy feel. Only the cast iron columns spaced along the outer wall were not covered by brown hues and stood in stark contrast to the earthen tones like dull metal trees sprinkled amongst the pines. The off white linoleum floor didn’t match the rest of the room, but it was so scuffed and had faded to a dull yellow patina to the point that it no longer clashed as it had the first time she visited. The OAGI opted for an open floor plan. Except for the bathroom and the back