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really interested in something else. So, don’t volunteer anything, okay?”
    “Boss, what do you think the director—um—His Greatness wants?”
    “Well, he’s new to the job. I’d say he wants my help, wouldn’t you?” Josh tried to look more casual than he felt. The guys seemed to buy it. “In the meantime, keep your eyes peeled for trouble. Watch over the girl, but don’t intervene. I’ll have my sat cell and will always answer your calls unless I’m in a meeting with G.O.”
    “G.O.?” the two angels asked in unison.
    “Great One.”
    All three laughed at this.
    Josh zipped up the black soft duffel case Beau had given him with the Spacetraveler saucer logo.
    “Okay then, I’m off. Behave yourselves.” Josh punched both men square in the chest. They followed him downstairs.
    Once in front of the messengers, Josh asked the obligatory question he was dreading. “So, how long will I be gone?”
    “His Greatness didn’t tell us when you were coming back, or if.”
    This was bad. Very bad.

Chapter 6
     
    The transport warehouse had been busy, Josh noted. There was a pile of duffel bags silently collecting dust at the wooden benches, things abandoned by dark angels who were not allowed to take them back. It happened all the time. But the size of the pile concerned Josh as soon as he discovered it.
    “You boys been pretty busy, then?”
    The oldest one, Abraham, grunted. “Yeah, been lots of changes,” he said as he checked his watch and motioned for them to sit. Side by side, they waited like a bunch of crows on a telephone line.
    “So, I guess I should feel complimented it took three of you to come get me? He’d expected trouble?” Josh said in the most casual voice he could muster. Inside his stomach was doing flip-flops.
    “Just following orders, Joshua.” Abraham avoided eye contact.
    “Hey, it’s me, Josh . You guys know that.” He had always been their friend. They might reveal something. He shrugged. “So, tell me what’s going on? What do you know?”
    The three looked at each other, cautious and checking themselves. Josh read their fear, their eyes darting back and forth without a word. He knew they wanted to tell him more than they could. It was a dangerous sign.
    “Gents. We go back a long way. Just a little clue, please.” He had hand-picked them to work for the prior director.
    “Zachary’s gone.” The youngest, a dark-haired boy of about twenty, started in. “And Silas, well…” He looked at his two buddies. They all chimed in together as they looked at Josh. “Gone.”
    “Gone.” Josh nodded his head. “Gone as in gone where?”
    “Vaporized.” Simon, the redhead, put finality to it, which made Josh’s blood run cold. He knew Peter was powerful as a dark angel. He did not know anyone else had the power to vaporize.
    “So, he knows how to vaporize. You saw him do it?” Josh’s mentor had told him centuries ago Josh would be the only one. He wished he could have a word with his old mentor, but the dark angel ended himself right after bestowing the gift on his new apprentice. He had warned Josh about a prophecy for a “Coming,” as he’d called it. Could this be what he foretold?
    “Yep. Looks just like when you do it,” Abraham said. The other two nodded in agreement.
    “Did Silas resist or something?” Josh watched a black limo with darkened windows enter the rollup metal door at the far end of the warehouse and come toward them. “How come he got fried?”
    Abraham leaned into Josh and whispered, “We don’t really know. Um, Josh, we won’t talk about this in the transport, okay? But he was tortured in Peter’s private quarters. We heard him scream for days.”
    “It was awful,” another whispered. They all nodded. “We thought maybe Peter uncovered something. But he crisped Zack for nothing— I mean, you know Zach. He was a good angel.”
    The redhead winced as he walked toward the limo, his steps slow, his head bent. Josh knew Silas was a good