Page 27 of Demon Unleashed

“Oh, Great One,” he said in surprise.

“I need something else. I need you to go back a few months and get me a list of everybody who was up top on a specific day. Can you do that?”

“Sure. What’s the date?”

Zoltan bent over the desk and grabbed a pen, then scribbled the date on a piece of paper. Yannick looked at it. “Is there anything special about that date?”

“Just get me the information.”

“Of course. However, there’s a slight problem.”

“A problem?” Zoltan growled.

“Data that far back hasn’t been entered into the system yet.” Yannick motioned to the boxes behind him. “They’re on the paper records. I’ll have to go through those first and enter them before I can run a complete list.”

“How long?”

“A week?”

“You have three days!”

Zoltan pivoted and stormed out, slamming the door behind him. He had to wait three days to find out if Vintoq had also sent the previous assassin after him? Fuck! He was in his right mind to kill Vintoq right now, but he knew it was imprudent. Sending one demon up top, who then showed up at the same place as Enya and Zoltan, could be a coincidence. Sending one to attack Zoltan a few months earlier would show a pattern, and be sufficient proof to act.

He was already walking to his private quarters when he stopped himself. He had to go back into the human world. Tomorrow Enya would tell him the truth about herself, and he didn’t want to miss her call. Besides, he preferred sleeping in his luxurious condo to spending the night in his rather basic accommodations in the Underworld. He’d grown accustomed to the amenities in the human world, the pleasant smells, the soft sheets, even the views over the city.

The moment he teleported back to Baltimore, his tense neck muscles started to relax. This was where the Great One should rule from, a city full of crime and fear, and not from the caves and tunnels deep within the earth that smelled of sulfur and never saw daylight.

Once he’d overthrown mankind, he’d live here permanently, never to return to the dark and squalid hellhole the previous leaders of the demons had created. Why nobody before him had ever thought of setting up mission central in the human world and enjoy its amenities, he couldn’t fathom. But then again, he was a new breed of leader, a leader who looked to the future, a leader with true ambitions. And soon, they would all be fulfilled.