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His nostrils flared. “But you still sold me out.”
Her laugh was brittle. “Would it have killed you,” she asked him, stepping toward the exit now because it was her turn to leave him, “to have trusted me, just a little bit?”
Good sex. No, great sex. Maybe that was all they’d ever had. Why had she expected more? “A human was coming at me.” She didn’t look in his eyes as she spoke now. She couldn’t. “Beth was shouting some crazy shit about me being normal, saying all I had to do was walk away.” Laura—the girl’s eyes had been wide. Sad. Tears had glittered behind her glasses. “I didn’t want to hurt Laura. She didn’t seem like a threat to me.”
He shifted and edged closer to her.
“I thought Perseus was using her, just like they’d used me. I didn’t want to hurt her,” she said again as the memory surged through her. “Then she lunged at me. She touched me and barely let her fingers skim down my side.”
And it had felt like the woman sliced her open with a hot knife.
Jana tossed back her head. “If you don’t believe me, look.” Her eyes held his. “Look.”
She felt the hard psychic push against her mind.
Laura stood before her, the woman’s thin body trembling.
Hell, where was Zane? “Don’t take another step.”
Laura froze.
“What happens when she takes the fire away? Where does it go?” Jana asked.
Beth didn’t answer, and the girl wasn’t speaking. Her eyes looked so big behind the glasses, and her skin was stark white.
An alarm sounded overhead. A high-pitched, whining alarm. Beth jerked and swore. “Dumb bitch. She should’ve just done her damn part.”
What?
Footsteps thundered outside.
Beth’s face hardened. Her hand lifted, and she stabbed a finger in the air toward Jana. “The demon is going to die. If he won’t help us, then we’ll rip him apart. But first…” And the guards spilled into the room. “First, we’re taking that fire from you. We’re taking it, and we’re going to make sure you’re nothing but a corpse when we leave this room.”
Now, this was the Beth she knew and hated. “Bring it, bitch.” Jana let the charge shoot through her. “If you think you’re strong enough, come on.” A line of fire split the floor between them. Charge more. Charge. “Let’s see if you still like my fire.”
“Shoot her!” Beth screamed at the guards. “Not the head or the heart, but shoot her! Take her down!”
The bullets flew through the air just as the flames blazed higher.
Laura stumbled forward, careening dangerously close to the fire. Jana lunged toward her. Laura’s fingers brushed her side.
Pain. It sliced through her. Agony that burned and burned and burned.
Jana screamed and fell to the floor.
Beth’s laughter echoed around her. “Give it to me! Give it to me!”
Something was ripping out of Jana. Clawing its way out of her body. Burning claws, hacking their way to the surface. Tears streamed down her face. “Z-Zane!”
“He can’t help you. He won’t.”
Her palms slapped against the floor. She forced her head up. Those flames…
Laura stared back at her with eyes too wide. Beth was holding the girl’s hand and squeezing tight. “Give it to me.”
Smoke began to drift from Laura’s nostrils. From her mouth. Her eyes.
“Give it to me!”
