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Demons lurked in this corridor, sticking to the shadows since the afternoon sun was still streaming in.
They wouldn’t be hurt by the sun but they hated it. The fact they were here at all was unsettling.
That wasn’t the agreement. As far as I knew, the demons were able to feed, after dark only, and never enough to kill or permanently harm.
He was getting bold.
The doors were locked, so I continued to follow the hallway until I reached the nurses’ station. Demons saw me as well, but that couldn’t be helped, and I’d likely have Harlow back before they could do anything about it.
The fact he’d tucked her away here where no one could monitor him, was fucked up. Vane wasn’t just bold but stupid because my anger was building, and he would be my outlet.
He’d pay for this . . . in blood.
Oldies were playing from a dated radio on the desk, but there was no activity in the empty common room or the station outside of one woman.
The old nurse was smoking with her head poking out of a window, so she didn’t notice the keys I’d taken from her desk.
It was too easy.
Clearly, this floor was careless since it had gone all but unnoticed by everyone else up until now.
Vane was planning something with the demons here. It was the only explanation for why they’d defy Hel.
The human wouldn’t risk it without reason.
My heart pounded as I pushed the key into the first door and turned. The click was loud and I froze, hoping she wouldn’t hear. Thankfully, the music drowned it out. A small man was curled on his side, shaking. From the matted hair and smell, I had a feeling he hadn’t seen daylight in weeks... or a shower.
“No, don’t let them in,” he pleaded. I hated myself for backing out and locking the door. At least that way they couldn’t get in, too, but I couldn’t save him.
Not yet. That would have to wait.
My mate mattered more.
The next three rooms were more barely functioning patients in various states of distress. One was crying, another babbling incoherently as she rocked back and forth, and the third was all but catatonic. I didn’t recognize them, and there were no names or charts to be found.
Vane put these people here to be forgotten.
I’d kill him for this.
Finally, I pushed open the door and recognized the blonde hair hanging off the bed. Her scent was so strong in here that I knew he’d taken her off suppressors. I couldn’t think of the implications of that, not yet.
My chest tightened to the point I could barely breathe as I walked forward and rolled her over. Her eyes were heavy, barely open, like she’d been drained of all life. She was a shell of a person now and fury snaked through my veins.
If I didn’t kill him, Monty would, this would not go unpunished.
“I’ve got you,” I promised her as I lifted her into my arms.
We’d barely made it out of the door and past the sigil keeping him out when I called out to Ivar.
He popped in, flames burning bright at the sight of her.
“Take her to our showers. I’ll meet you there, I can’t travel like you can, and she needs to get out of here. Now.”
“He’ll come for her.”
“He won’t have that fucking option,” I promised him.
“Make it hurt, half-breed,” Ivar said.
