Chapter 82
Damned AngelFor some reason, Seongwoo didn’t seem that surprised by this news. He got up off my bed and paced around. “What are you not telling me?”, I asked. “But it can’t be him… it just can’t be… We checked him out… Gwanghyun and Sewoon have been following him for months. They were on JR duty and they had concluded that he was just a normal fallen angel”, he said. I felt my anger rising, “You knew?! You knew he was a fallen angel?! Why on earth wouldn’t you tell me?!”, I yelled. “Because", Seongwoo yelled back, startling me, "Sorry... look not all fallen angels are bad Tris. I told you this before. There are fallen angels living amongst humans, leading normal lives. They are not a part of The Fallen and they are no longer associated with this world; much like Danny. JR's story had checked out. He was attending classes, doing homework, going to college parties, dating girls. He was a fallen angel, but that was it; he was just a fallen angel. I didn’t want you to worry for no reason. WOU is swarming with fallen angels. That's another reason Jae's coven stayed behind. The fallen angel alert that I receive always went off when you left the dorm. The only time it didn't was when Daniel was with you. Anyway … some days ago, we had lost track of JR. He sort of just vanished and we couldn’t find him. I noticed he wasn't coming to classes either. When that happened, he became the biggest suspect on our list again. That’s how Sewoon found Jinyoung; he had been trying to find JR and just got lucky I guess”, Seongwoo punched the wall in anger, “He probably knew all along… he knew we were onto him and now he's gone underground. I can't believe he was right there all this time. We had just assumed he was hiding behind his army”.
“But why not just take me?”, I asked, “Why let our friendship build over the past year?”. “Probably the same reason I did”, Seongwoo said, “He wanted to gain your trust and besides the last time they tried to take us was pointless, because you were not 19. They figured out that the longer they hold you, the longer the covens have to find you. That's why things had been so quiet recently. It's because they were not even trying. They were waiting for the right moment”. “Are there any other fallen angels I should know about?”, I asked bluntly. “Tris, I’m so sorry”, he sat back down on my bed, “I know I haven’t been the greatest guardian angel to you… but I would never let anyone harm you; especially not JR”. I could see the sadness in his eyes. “If you must know, the rest of his gang are fallen angels as well; that whole bunch that you’ve been studying with; Dongho, Minki, Moonbok Hyunwoo and W
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