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“Aren’t you going to take a shower?” I asked.
He shook his head. “Later.”
“Then … can we talk now? Or are you busy brooding?”
He stopped and turned his frown at me. “There’s nothing to talk about.”
I stood. “What do you mean? You promised we would talk about my plan.”
“I didn’t promise anything, sweetheart. I said we would talk later to get you out of there.”
“What?” I almost shouted. “What the hell?” I started after him. “You—”And I bumped into an invisible wall. I almost fell back, but bumped into the bed, and was able to find my balance. I reached forward and felt it. “What is this? What did you do?”
“I can’t have you doing something stupid, sweetheart.“ Levi moved the couch three inches to the side and I saw it—the lines of the circle he had drawn around the bed and part of the cabin.
Rage bloomed in my veins. “You did what?!” I banged against the wall, but it was to no avail. Maybe if I had my magic, but without it … I was as useless as a human. There was nothing I could do against the simplest witch or demon circles. “Levi, get me out of there right now!”
“I can’t do that, sweetheart.”
“What, then? You’re holding me so you can hand me over to the angels yourself?”
Levi walked up to the circle, just out of reach. “I’m doing this for your own good, sweetheart?—”
“Don’t sweetheart me!” I yelled as loud as I could. “You asshole! Let me go, damn it!”
“Hate me all you want,” he said with a growl. “You’ll thank me later.”
He spun on his heels and walked out of the cabin.
I shouted his name, screamed, threw the side lamp at him, only to have it bounce off the magical wall and break on the floor.
Desperation suffocated me. How could I get away from here? From this?
The truth was, I couldn’t.
* * *
Now I understood why Levi had fed me and waited until I took a shower to lock me in the circle—because he didn’t come back that night.
I called his phone, but he didn’t answer. At some point, my phone died and the charger was on the other side of the circle.
Bored and angry, I lay down on the bed and ended up sleeping.
I woke up early and realized he had come back in the middle of the night: now the circle had an adjacent one that included the bathroom.
At least he had thought about that …
No, he wasn’t getting any sympathy from me.
How much more would he have to do for me to remember he was a vicious demon? Shortly after I first met him, he killed a demon who had been his captive. After that, he would have allowed demons to kill innocent humans, if it weren’t for the Blackthorn Hunters showing up at the park. He had captured and tortured an angel, and now he had trapped me in here against my will.
And according to him, he was going after my wings.
I wondered. Would he give them back to me, or would he sell them? Maybe add that to the angels’ offer and get a larger reward?
At this point, I couldn’t discount anything from him.
It was the middle of the morning when the cabin door opened and I opened my mouth to yell at him—but Lacey was the one walking toward me.
