Free Death has a Daughter (DHAD Series) by Candice Burnett

would be able to fight.  All you’ll be able to do is teleport us.”  He laughed.  Hmm, a guy picking on me...this was nothing new.
    “ That is not all I can do…but I have nothing to prove to you…and it’s too bad Guardians aren’t gifted with teleporting souls or we wouldn’t even be in this mess.” I learned at an early age that words got you nowhere.  You could argue all day with someone about how good you were at something, but it meant nothing until you proved it to them.  “I really would love to listen to your bullshit all day, but I do have to go back to my realm.  I’ll return after I’ve seen the right people, so that my absence won’t be missed.  The Demons shouldn’t be able to track you here yet.  We should have a couple days before they even pick up on the fact that you were here, and by then I’ll have moved us somewhere else.”
    “ As long as I pick the next place, that sounds fine,” he said.
    “ Goodbye, Lacie. It was nice...ugh...meeting you, I guess.”  It felt awkward just leaving her there with this jerk, but he was her Guardian.
    “ Don’t bother to be nice to her. We both know that the minute this situation is resolved, you will be on the hunt for her soul again,” he spit out at me.
    “ You’re probably correct.”  There was no reason that once he was healed and was able to get more Guardians that I couldn’t fight for her soul when it came into compromises.
    “ You go back on your end of our agreement, and I will go back on mine!” he threatened.
    “ Our agreement was that, until you were healed and able to get more Guardians, I helped you and that you guys wouldn’t tell about me, ever.  So I would not be breaking the agreement once you were healed, would I?”
    “ Freaking under-realm.  That’s why you can never trust them,” he muttered under his breath, and I’d had enough of him.  This conversation was over. I ported out of there and back to my realm.
    How was I going to get away with this? I sat down on my bed and pulled out my scroll .  There were so many names here.  There wasn’t any time to help guard a soul for half of the day.  The scroll was only about halfway through and I’d already knocked out the easiest ones when I wasn’t stalking Lacie.  How could I possibly keep my end of the bargain? But if I didn’t, and they exposed me, I would be finished.  The second any of the underworld council heard I had helped save a soul, from a Demon of all things, they would never let me continue to be a Reaper.  They’d probably even kick me out of the realm, knowing that I’d saved a Guardian as well.  I was in too deep now.  The only solution would be to go along with this. 
    Once that G uardian was healed, I could go back to stalking, or just wait for the Demons to get her soul.  That would be the easiest way out, as they would get it eventually.  Hopefully, it would be after our deal was over. My hand grabbed a pencil and started mapping out my scroll.  According to my calculations, I was still ahead of everyone else.  To remain the top, I would be required to take at least five souls a week.  That would be perfect timing and would mean no screw-ups.  I put my head in my hands and started rubbing my temples to try and focus.  This had to be possible, I could do it, for, if I didn’t, I would fail and could possibly be exposed as a traitor to our realm.

Chapter 10
Double Agent
    “You’re late,” Trevor said, as I ported to where he stood with Lacie.
    “ Yeah, sorry, had to do my day job.  The researchers were taking longer than usual.”  The researchers were backed up.  Seems a lot of the Reapers brought multiple souls in today, so they were busy.  It was a good thing I’d gotten there when I had, with my two souls, or I probably wouldn’t have been able to come down to Lacie and Trevor at all.  If that’d happened, Trevor would think I’d betrayed them and would have exposed me the first chance he got.
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