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"So why didn’t you tell eline?" I persisted

"The consensus was that nobody needed to worry about it as long as Evangeline stayed put We didn’t think that even Lucifer would try to remove her"

"He didn’t," I said "I did"

"And that was so his hands through his hair "But now that you have…Maddy, you have to leave"

"Leave where? Chicago?"

"This universe," JB said "If you can travel to the land of the dead, then you can cross to another world You’ve got to get away before Sokolov discovers what you’ve done"

"I’itive for the rest of my life," I said "If he wants to come for me, let him"

I’d relish the opportunity to take Sokolov out He’d tortured JB, and for that I could never forgive him

"It’s not Sokolov that will come for you It’s the Retrievers," JB said

As he said the name of those creatures, it seemed that the wind echoed him--Retrievers, Retrievers, Retrievers

"I’m not scared of the Retrievers," I said "You don’t even knohat kind of shit I’ve seen Or what kind of power I have now"

"It doesn’t matter," JB said "The Retrievers are the final resort Nobody is immune"

"Then why didn’t you send the Retrievers after Lucifer once he started sneaking past the Door?" I said

"I think what it cole with Lucifer," JB said "They’re still s from the attack by Ramuell and Antares They know Lucifer is more powerful than either of those creatures were"

"But it’s okay to tangle with me?" I said suspiciously "You seem to know a lot about Lucifer all of a sudden More than I do, actually And I’ why you never told me any of this before"