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“Delilah owns and runsBrimstone Inc.”
Now that he’d heard of.
“The firm dedicated tohelping supernatural creatures with all sorts of problems,” hesaid, eyeing the woman with a thousand questions. “Castor Dioskouriis a friend. He has only good things to say about yourservices.”
Alasdair’s smile was full of pride for hismate. Delilah’s own smile, which had been warm, disappeared behinda frown. “You have your memory?”
His memory? What was she talking about?
Before he could ask, shewaved a hand. “Sorry. I get visions from time to time, and I hadone where we met. In that vision, you’d recently been shot by oneof your own arrows and it gave you amnesia.”
Amnesia? That was known tohappen, but a rare reaction. And, until Elodie, he’d never been hitwith an arrow. He’d remember. “I did get shot recently,” was all hesaid, and tried very hard not to glance at Elodie.
“Hmmm…” Delilah mused. “Thevision must have been off because of this.” She smoothed a handover her still flat belly. “This isn’t the first vision that’s goneslightly awry.”
Elodie gasped. “You’re pregnant?”
At Delilah’s glowing nod,she hugged her friend. Other than these last days together, thiswas the biggest show of emotion he’d ever seen from hissiren.
Did Elodie want children?See herself ever settling down?
“Thank you,” Delilah said.Then focused on Elodie. “But we’re here for a reason. The man whotried to take you is named Cretan Pasiphe.”
Beside him, Elodie tensed. “Pasiphe?”
“Is that familiar?” Delilahasked, exchanging a glance with Alasdair.
“A year ago, I hunted andkilled a man named Tavros Pasiphe.” She shook her head. “I thoughtthat guy in the bar looked familiar, but I hadn’t gotten his nameyet.”
Just like her tensing, hecaught the slight vibration of her shudder. Without thought, he puta hand to her lower back. Thankfully, she didn’t seem to mind. Evenleaning closer.
“I guess evil runs in theblood,” she murmured, more to herself.
“Maybe,” Chance admitted.He’d seen enough of humanity to believe that. “But evil is also achoice.”
“There’s more,” Delilahwarned. “We know that Tavros and Cretan were brothers. But theyalso aren’t entirely human.”
They both tensed atthat.
There was no law or evenunderstanding that supernaturals wouldn’t kill each other. Hells,the dragon shifters had only just found peace after five-hundredyears of strife and war. But…
“I knew Tavros wassupernatural—though I didn’t bother to find out what. But I didn’tsense anything supernatural about Cretan,” Elodie insisted. “Icould see his aura. It was awful but looked humanenough.”
“I’m not surprised,”Delilah said. “He’s descended from a long, diluted line ofminotaurs. More human than bull now. But he lives in a commune withmany full-blooded cousins. And he wants vengeance forTavros.”
Well…fuck.
Chapter9
Elodie took a deep breathas she walked into Chance’s apartment.
Minotaurs.
Like wolf shiftersdescended from werewolves, the breed of half bull-half men hadsomewhere along the lines learned to shift at will, allowing themto blend in more easily among humans. Those creatures werenotoriously bad tempered.
And I killed one.
Granted, a bad one. She’dbroken no laws among her kind. The fact that they were half-humanhad to be why she’d been able to see their auras. That happenedsometimes. But if Cretan was after her now, he wouldn’t give upuntil she was dead. Stubborn was like a badge of honor to hiskind.
