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Then he let her into the demons’ den.
* * *
“Damn.” Zane reached for door handle.
Jude grabbed his arm. “Easy, man. Easy. She just walked inside. No way has she made contact with anyone yet.”
“This is the place where those demons jumped me!”
“Demons are always jumping you.”
Zane didn’t take his gaze off the door. “This was different. It was a trap. They’d been waiting for me. If I’d gone into that place…”
How many would have come at him?
“You would have ass-kicked your way out?” Jude asked dryly.
His lips thinned. “Yeah.” He would have.
“So why didn’t you go in?”
“She stopped me.” You shouldn’t go in there. Yet she’d just strolled in, rolling those sexy hips. “She said that there was a hit on me, that the vamps and demons had been wanting her to take me out.” Only she hadn’t taken the hit on him. She’d never come at him with fire in her eyes. Not once. Not even when he’d cuffed her.
For a supposedly cold-blooded killer, that didn’t make a lick of sense.
“So there was a hit, she didn’t take it, and the woman tried to protect you?” Jude’s fingers drummed on the wheel. “Interesting.”
Zane rolled his shoulders.
“So in return for her bit of community service, what did you do?” Jude asked.
“I cuffed her.”
The bark of laughter came fast and hard from the shifter.
Zane didn’t glance his way. His eyes were on the club. “She shouldn’t be in there alone.”
“Relax. Nothing’s happened yet.”
His back teeth clenched. “How the hell do you know that from out here?”
“Because I don’t smell any smoke. Your lady hasn’t started having her fun.”
* * *
Jana stood in the middle of the den, her gaze darting to the dark corners and closed doors. The demons were so strung out here. Her nose ached from all the bitter scents. Demons and drugs—sometimes, there wasn’t any other way for them to shut out the darkness.
She knew a lot about darkness.
There wasn’t an actual bar in the place. No band, either. Why pretend? The people there wanted only one thing.
Pleasure. The sweet release the drugs would give them.
Her gaze tracked to the right. She needed to find a familiar face… ah.
Demon number one on her list. The demon with the scar sliding down his right cheek, one of the demons who’d come charging at her and Zane. Also one of the demons who’d been so quick to flee when he realized Zane wasn’t going down.
She stalked toward him.
