29. Cat and Mouse
Gahan knew that the w***e, the angel and the traitor would be looking for him.
Let them, he thought to himself. They will always be one step behind me. Soon though, the hunters shall become the hunted. Like the cat that waits silently in the shadows for the mouse to come, so shall I be waiting.
Gahan heard a distant bell ring out five times. It was time to rendezvous with Asmodeus, the man who was his master, if not his lord and father.
Asmodeus was sitting at the bar of a seedy little nightclub, owned by Satan and run by lesser demons. Once it had been run by mortals whose souls Satan eventually claimed. Gahan thought it ironic that the nightclub shared a name with a place in hell.
Gahan sat to the left of Asmodeus and waited for him to speak. Unasked, the bartender
