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“It’s Murtagh,” I replied.
“You’ve got some bad people heading up your way,” he warned, cutting to the point in his southern drawl. “I’d send Ombre up to you, but it won’t make no difference. They done figured out the dot-to-dot from us, to you, to her. So when they came to us last evening, Seraphus was quite prepared this time to handle a shadow demon well and good. It’ll take a while before he’s back to his old self, in fact.
“And then they handled me. That was a bad surprise. Came with a proper demon trap, punched me right into it usin’ a sledgehammer of all things! Put my poor girl all alone except for Silas. And Silas is worthless. Literally—he is in no way prepared to handle that sort of situation. And so Wendy did what she could…”
“Is she okay?” I asked, but really, I wanted to ask what the fuck happened.
“Oh, no. She’s fine. She got a little bruised by the followers because they had in mind to bag her and bring her to a second location. But then Wendy bewitched Seraphus.”
“She did?” I asked, my words hopeful.
“With good manners,” he specified, and my face fell.
“Wendy ain’t no dummy. If you can’t fight, or flee, she knows that she’d better befriend real quick. So she offered Seraphus a tea and had a sit-down, despite the fact that he obviously planned to torture her for information. I imagined he didn’t know quite what to make of her. Folks rarely do. And so here we are,” he continued, “because to keep herself from being tortured, she of course willingly gave up your location and admitted your connection to your mate.”
My mouth dropped.
“She did not explain what you were looking for and is certain that he does not know. She also got from Seraphus that he has a notion of right where your girl’s brother is.”
I blinked, gooseflesh prickling on my skin. “When did this all happen?”
He grunted. “About ten hours ago. Wendy got me and Ombre both out of our fix and back to rights. At least as much as she could, and we’ve been trying to get you on the line ever since. You are going to want to unroot yourself from where you are pronto and get in the air. Doesn’t matter where to, just don’t stay there, because Ombre told us where ya’ll were going.”
“I did not tell the shadow,” I said succinctly.
“Oh, he followed you right to Turkey. Just because he doesn’t say ‘hello’ don’t mean he ain’t there. Don’t you forget for a moment that a holy war hangs in the balance, here.” There was no apology. There was no explanation. There was only a pause in the conversation, and then he said, “I mean now. I mean move your ass. Keep in touch.” The other side of the line went dead.
I pinched my nose and closed my eyes. What a fucking nightmare.
Literally, this was my nightmare.
I whipped my head towards the bed. “Caspian, get up! We’ve got to move!” I barked at him with force, grabbing my pants and pulling them on. “Miles!”
Miles was already walking in, his eyebrows raised.
“We have company heading our way,” I growled at him. “We need to be out of here in five minutes.”
“So, I’m guessing this isn’t company I should be making a charcuterie for?” he asked, annoyed but not startled. It was hard to startle Miles.
“No.”
“I’ll be in the car in five,” Miles assured me and disappeared back out the door.
CHAPTER 22
Caspian
What the fuck?
Right now, I had Zazie’s warm little bubble butt pressed up against my cock and my arm around her waist, pulling her close against me, all while Miles and Murtagh were yammering about some danger, and I just wanted to pull her in closer and stay like this forever. I breathed in her scent, heavenly and perfect and just like home and everything I’d ever wanted.
“Caspian, fuck. Get up. We have to move. Now,” Murtagh shouted. “Seraphus is coming for Zazie, and we need to get her out of here. Miles has already gone to get the car, so get the fuck out of bed.”
I groaned. He was ruining my perfect dream. I’d much rather be woken up with Zazie riding my cock, but Murtagh continued yammering about demons and monsters and the eventual end of the world when it all suddenly snapped back into place.
Fuck! Seraphus!
And I thought cats were a bad enough feature in this adventure.
