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Divine Uprising

Rachel Van Dyken

To all my readers… this one is for you!

When men began to multiply on earth, and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how

beautiful the daughters of man were, and so they took for their wives as many of them as they

chose. Then the Lord said: "My spirit shall not remain in man forever, since he is but flesh. His

days shall comprise one hundred and twenty years." At that time the Nephilim appeared on earth

(as well as later), after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of man, who bore them

sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown. (Genesis 6:1-4)

DIVINE

Chapter One

Athena

My whole life I’ve been taught to be good.

I’ve been good.

I remind myself of that every time the job gets to me. On days like today, when I look at what I’ve

done — repentance comes to mind.

I took in the complete and utter mess around me. By the looks of it, I clearly had a lot more in store at

the end of my life than normal people.

Normal.

The word itself mocked me.

My feet touched the cold slate of the floor. Blood pooled around the spike of my leather heels,

instantly making me feel irritated that I’d have to clean them.

It had been too easy this time. We were supposed to be looking at the apartment across the way.

Adonis convinced the real estate agent that I needed my space, so we boarded the elevator alone, and

when we reached the fifth floor, headed to the room where the human was waiting.

It was over before she could even pull the trigger on her .45 Auto, not that it would have done much

damage.

But after we found out she was trying to trap us for the Phantoms, her only remaining option was death

— not that it was an option to begin with. Death rarely was.

I rolled my eyes and knelt down by her body. I was literally standing in a mess of my own creation.

The form was pale and lifeless. Its entire source of energy… gone.

The Phantoms started this war. Now it was up to those who remained in His favor to end it.

It’s what Seekers did. They sought out the evil in the world that threatened to destroy everything pure

and good.

All I knew was that until the Phantoms were burning in Hell, my entire existence was spent saving the

weak human race from being destroyed by their own stupidity.

After taking a deep breath, I realized I only had two options: call for reinforcements or clean up the

mess myself. I decided against the latter. I didn’t feel the need to get dirty. After all, a girl hates to get