Ari didn't answer his phone so by the time I'd driven back to the chapter house with no contact from him, I'd worked myself into a frantic state, unable to see anything other than my brother's broken bloodied body from when Asmodeus had tortured him.

I ran inside. "Ari?"

I checked every floor with no sign of him, then hit the basement, running into the Vault almost blind with panic.

A dark-haired guy was making out with someone. All I could see was the back of Dude ...