Chapter 91

I gasped. Blinked. Forced his words to unscramble themselves in a way that made sense. "What? But they chose me. I went to their mansion and..." Never had a conversation with any of them. Never even saw their faces. I forced a swallow, my throat suddenly feeling too tight. "Who were all those people?"

"People, some of them supernatural, hired to be the faces of the Senate when they had no real power over the slayer. The dark unknown wiped out the original members...thoroughly, in an effort to prevent a new slayer from being chosen after the current one died."

"How long ago was this?" Sawyer demanded. "Why hire people to be a fake Senate if they didn't actually do anything?"

"Simple," Eddie said, pushing his glasses up his nose. "If word had got out that the Senate was no more, the supernatural community would be in chaos."

"The slayer is a key part of the supernatural universe," the devil said again, nodding.