When We Team Up, No Problem Is a Problem

"How did it go? Did you get through?" Angela asked.

"Not yet, but soon. Phones are like toilets—keep trying, and eventually they'll unclog."

Constantine wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, wondering if his reputation had spread across all of America. Otherwise, there was no explaining why Russell hung up the moment he saw his call, leaving him no chance to salvage the situation.

"Constantine, we can only rely on ourselves now, right?" Angela closed her eyes. She did not need Constantine to answer; she had already guessed it.

Angela's sister was named Isabelle. A devout Catholic, she had been committed to a psychiatric hospital for evaluation because she often claimed she could see demons.

After several years, the hospital had found nothing, but Isabelle had jumped from a building and killed herself.

Those who committed suicide could not enter Heaven. As a believer, Isabelle would only be cast into Hell for punishment.

Before meeting Constantine, Angela had been a standard atheist. She believed neither God nor demons existed, and that science could explain every phenomenon.

But disbelief was one thing; she respected Isabelle's faith. She did not want her sister to die without peace because of it, and hoped the Church would hold a Catholic funeral for her. After being refused, she met Constantine through a friend's recommendation.

With Constantine, Angela witnessed all sorts of things that defied science, which only made her more worried. She hoped Constantine could prove her sister had been murdered rather than having ended her own life.

The result was terrible. Her sister Isabelle was confirmed to have committed suicide, while Angela lost both money and possessions because of a baffling exorcism ritual.

Worse still, Constantine sweet-talked Angela into falling head over heels for that scumbag!

After that came the series of events where