Chapter 273
I blinked and the rabbi once more stood solid before me.
"Conference room in twenty," he barked in his Russian accent and strode off.
The wiry man who'd been trailing the rabbi scurried behind the reception desk, looking as if he was trying to make himself invisible as he dropped into the chair.
I reached behind me and took Ro's hand, because my heart was racing, and my legs were questionably stable.
"You good, Louis?" Ro asked the man, holding my hand tight between our bodies.
Louis, the receptionist, nodded. "The rabbi's in a mood. Can't blame him, but..." He looked up at us with bleak eyes. "If a daeva compelled Ethan, what hope do we have? Tell me straight, is it safe for me to keep working here?"
"I don't know," Rohan said. "Do what you need to and don't feel guilty either way."
Louis nodded, biting his bottom lip and looking down.
Ro clapped him on the shoulder and we headed through the door into the main DSI area.