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The way my thoughts had turned on themselves in the past twenty-four hours and now battled back in forth. I was doomed to fall as hard as I hated her.
Could have fought it.
Could have told myself I was a crazy fuck and it was starting to show again.
But the way the thing in my chest sped up a little when I looked at her—the thought of possessing her entirely. No, this couldn’t be called insanity.
Lust?
A thrill?
My obsession getting the best of me? Who fucking knows all I knew was that I hadn’t felt any of this shit before. Scratch that I didn’t feel much of anything until I had Addy right in front of me. She was a small piece of humanity I had lost when I was a kid.
I shook my head and grinned.
Demon
was going to have a field day with this. Little shit had prophesized this happening the day he found out about me and Luce’s deal. I could hear his voice driving me up the goddamn wall about it now.
I almost missed his ass already.
He would back home soon, exactly where he belonged. There was no other outcome.
“This reminds me of my old neighborhood. Manufactured pieces of shit,” Ace disclosed.
“How did you end up out here?” Nyx asked.
I hadn’t expected to hear her voice again, not so calm and normal, anyway. Like, Addy, she had a neutral expression on her pretty face.
I did expect her to be more torn up about having to mercy-kill her friend. Since she was the harvester of souls and whatnot, I supposed it was all just natural to her.
“Dad kicked me and my older bro out of the house, said we were men and could take of ourselves.”
“That’s some tough love shit,” Cam said.
“He has us now, he’s better off,” Maliki stated.
“Yeah, tis all good. I don’t miss the neighbors much either,” he joked.
“We can stop at the next cul-de-sac,” I voiced a minute later. “We’ll be able to see the street and behind us.”
“Some of these curtains have moved,” Trix pointed out.
“I saw them. That means we find a house that’s empty. Look at this place, shouldn’t be too hard to do.”
The gated community was nothing like the exuberant area it could have been. An artificial lake now lime green was full of dead fish, the smell intensifying as the sun rose higher in the sky.
Huge faux mansions with irrigated yards now swathed by barren dirt sat neglected.
We turned onto a street named MullBerry, and I pointed to a cream-colored house in the center.
“Let’s try that one.”
“Want me to check it out first?” Trix asked.
“Yeah, just be careful.”
“Always, Z.” She flashed me a smile and then broke into a jog.
