"Well, he'll be free to date," Deidre said.
"Not an easy thing to do when you're Death."
Deidre sighed. Why did she feel guilty about this whole mess, when she hadn't done anything to get herself into it? Not directly, anyway. Or maybe it was all her fault, created by bad karma she built up when she was some crazy deity in a past life she had no memory of.
Okay, so maybe this wasn't so weird. She was working off bad karma.
"Toby, what do the angel memories say about it?" Katie asked.
"I'm thinking."
Deidre glanced at the angel curiously.
"When they get old enough, they can tap into this encyclopedia of shared memories," Katie explained. "It's kinda cool, except that Toby isn't old enough to research everything yet."
"I can't find anything," Toby said, upset. "But I think that Gabe can fix it. I mean, he has to be able to."
"Unless he can do something my surgeon can't …" Deidre shrugged. "Oh! Speaking of him, I'm supposed to be at his house."
"You should stay here," Katie said. "It's not safe in the human world for you now. Rhyn said there are demons after you. They're nasty bastards. This is the headquarters for the Immortals. Nothing can get you here, which is why I'm not allowed to leave." She rolled her eyes.
"I think I might've put him in danger, though. I already got one friend killed by a demon," Deidre said, guilt assailing her at the memory of Logan.
"The best thing you can do is just disappear," Katie advised. "That way, no one around you is in danger."
"I guess. I hope it's not too late, though," Deidre said. "I left all my stuff at his house."
"Go grab it and come right back," Katie suggested. "Rhyn knows you're here, which means he'll be checking up on you. You don't want him or Gabe to hunt you down. Trust me."
Deidre suspected the result of provoking either man was death to someone. She shivered. She hadn't intended not to return to Wynn's, but the idea of keeping him safe, too, made her feel a little less guilty about sneaking out on him.
She didn't want to die. She'd always hoped Wynn found some miracle cure, even while checking things off her bucket list. There wasn't anything else Wynn could do, though. Like Gabriel, he was better off without her in his life. It seemed like death was the only way to make up for whatever past-Deidre did.
"Do you need a portal?" Katie asked.
"No, I figured them out somehow."
"You're able to draw off Gabe's magic, like I can Rhyn's. It's how I accidentally learned to use the portals, too."