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“Let’s go get some demons.”
Swallowing hard, the metallic taste of my blood in my mouth, I straightened, feeling strong and sure and powerful in the arms of Jude. “I’m ready.”
“Good girl.” A big, smoldering smile.
My pulse thrummed in my throat. After I took one step out of the shadowed corner, a tight grip on my waist pulled me back. He swept my hair to the side, trailing his fingers along the lower back of my neck. Gooseflesh rose all over. He did that on purpose.
“If you don’t see me, don’t worry,” he whispered in my ear. “I’ll need to move around and stay hidden. Casting illusion won’t help. The demons around here will know me on sight.”
“What about Kat?” I asked, glancing at her slim silhouette still in the cage. “She’ll surely draw attention.”
“She doesn’t work this region normally. The local demons won’t know her. I’ll be watching. If you see a demon, lure him outside. I’ll follow and back you up.”
“Who says I’ll need backup?”
A squeeze lower on the hip.
“I’ll be watching,” he promised. “Just to be sure.”
“Stalker.”
Warm lips on the slope between my shoulder and neck made me jump.
“Stop that,” I hissed. “I’ve got to concentrate. I’m going now.”
He smacked my butt as I walked away. Yes!Smackedit.
I stumbled a step forward and moved quickly into the crowd, glaring over my shoulder to see a grinning demon hunter, bloated with ego and the knowledge of just how much control he already had over my body. Among other parts of me.
“Oh, sorry,” I said, bumping into a couple by accident and moving on.
When I glanced back, Jude was gone. But not really, which gave me a sense of relief. As I found my way back to the bar, Jeff, Isaac, and Mindy were downing shots of tequila.
“Yayyyy! Come on, Gen! Come do one with us!”
“Somebody’s got to get you home in one piece,” I assured her, hoping she wasn’t going to get puking drunk. “Y’all have fun, though.”
They licked the salt off their hands, clinked shot glasses, downed them, and shoved lime wedges into their mouths.
Mindy made an especially sour expression, scrunching up her cute face. Bright blue eyes widened as she clapped her hands. “Whoo-hoo! Another one, boys!”
Leave it to Mindy. A party girl if there ever was one. I’d lost my beer, or the bartender had thrown it away, so I sidled up to get another.
“Killian’s?” he asked.
I nodded, fishing in my pocket for some money. Just as I did, a prickling of needles stung along my spine.
“Let me get that for you, sweetheart.”
I turned to the eerily familiar voice on my left and looked up into the blood-red eyes of Fabio.
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Once I’d gotten over the shock of him standing there with a stupid-ass grin spread on his face, I gave him a bright smile in return.
“Well, hello there, handsome. You know, you should totally get some contacts to hide those. It may just be me, but that’s really not an attractive eye color.”
“Doesn’t matter in a place like this, sweetheart. They all think Iamwearing contacts. The joke’s on them.”
