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Zane stiffened.
Nancy’s gaze darted to Jana. “Are you a full-blood or a hybrid?” She blinked and seemed to realize they might not know what she meant. “A hybrid would be a mix, a?—”
Zane backed away from her touch, and Jana saw the muscle flex in his jaw. “I know the damn term. Yeah, my mother was human but that bastard who fathered me wasn’t.”
Oh, nice touch. Perseus would be all over a hybrid. They’d want to recruit him, not kill him. They did love that human blood. And the powers that be over there would really get off on a demon killing other demons.
“Demons don’t always respond the way they’re supposed to when they are given human medications,” Nancy explained, her voice quiet and calm.
“I’m not a demon.”
“Hybrid,” she murmured and her gaze darted to Jana. “And you…?”
“I’m human. I’m his half-sister.” Said fast because she knew Nancy would be able to rustle up a demon who could check her out. A demon could look right through the veil of glamour and see another of his kind. If one took a good look at her, well, no sense pushing that.
“I see.”
Jana knew exactly what the nurse meant. Nancy wasn’t interested in her.
“I have some friends.” Nancy turned her attention back to Zane. “They work with people like you. They can help you.”
“Bullshit. No one can help me. I’ve been trying for years, fighting this thing inside?—”
Nancy’s eyes narrowed. “Does it tempt you, this beast inside?”
He didn’t speak.
“Does it call to you? Taunt you with the power that it has?”
Jana didn’t roll her eyes, but it was a near thing.
“I know I can do any damn thing I want,” Zane’s voice rumbled, so dark, and Jana’s gaze darted to him. “If I let my control go, there’s no stopping me.”
Now that sounded so real. Maybe too real. Her tongue snaked over her bottom lip.
“Have you ever let go?” Nancy’s eyes were fixed on him.
A grim nod. “Once.”
Nancy leaned forward. “What happened?” Eagerness glittered in her gaze. Hungry vulture.
Zane straightened his shoulders. “I killed the bastard who claimed to be my father. I sent the demon back to hell.”
Well, damn. The man really was one class-A actor, and a pretty good writer, too, because that was just the kind of story Perseus would eat up.
Demon killer. Destroying even your own father because of what he was.
Nancy smiled. “Good for you,” she praised. “Sometimes, there are some folks that just need to be put down.”
Sometimes. But those folks weren’t always demons. Humans could be just as evil.
Nancy’s gaze darted to Jana.
Jana swiped her hand over her cheeks, wiping away the tear drops that she still let fall. “It’s been so hard,” she murmured.
Nancy gave her an understanding smile, one oozing fake sympathy. “I’m sure it has been. But everything will be changing for you now.” She turned toward the door.
“Where are you going?” Zane asked, taking a step forward.
