Chapter 52.2

Her head snapped up.

“From the looks of things, I’m going to be responsible for shooting the crystals. Griff will free the others and work his way up.”

She nodded.

Azriel strode ahead with the kind of purposefulness of a man in charge. The demons patrolling through the hallway cringed away from him as though one brush of his wings would burn.

“Here they are.” Namara flung open the door to a much smaller dungeon where the crystals rested atop a wooden table. “Satisfied?”

Beki gave me three sharp barks, and my breath caught. I tore out the pin from the first grenade and then the second, tossed one into the room and the other into the hallway.

They both hit the floor with a thud, and white smoke filled the air. Griff’s bombs detonated in the background.

Namara stumbled forward. Azriel caught her before she fell and laid her on the floor. I turned to find the rest of the hallway filling with smoke and the demons nearby dropping to the stone floor.

I pulled out the gun and shot the first c