Chapter 42. Sleeping Spell

ALICIA CHAY

Khovahsh! Why wasn't I surprised. Did he have full control over the pastor? The pastor's refusal to do the caller’s bidding seemed out of character for Khovahsh, especially after our first encounter when landed in front of me from a portal in the sky back in millennium 3. B.C. After spitting huge balls of fire at me that transitioned into psychotic faceless ghoulies, his expansive black wings exploded from the muscles of his upper shoulders, and he fled. I sprinted with the speed of light across the helipad, where choppers land. 

I was running after him as five twelve-foot ghoulies chased me, wanting me dead. Did they know I was Alicia, the Queen Mother? As I thought it, the ghouls paused in surrender, falling to their knees. No time for apologies, ghouls. I blinked, and they turned to dust. I jumped in the air, flying towards a fifty-story window, dropping a few more floors as I looked for Khovahsh Burgoos. The imbecile broke the law and had the nerve t