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She smiled softly; giving me a light kiss, one I made sure went deeper so she would think of it long after it ended.
“Thank you,” she said, pulling away.
“For what?”
“For coming after me, for telling me about your past.”
I reached behind me and pulled open the door, taking her hand. “Someone had to intervene before you went off in your head again.”
“And when you’re not around to placate my demons?”
“I’ll always be around, baby-girl, because me demons are beginning to love yours.” I winked and pulled her into the hall, taking a mental snapshot of her smiling.
“And you don’t have to thank me for telling you about me. I plan to do that much more. Like I said, we’ve got time.”
Whether that was true wasn’t relevant. She would know all there was to know soon enough. I had no reason to hide who I was. What my mother had done to me was wiped away the day Zane’s dad had me put a bullet between her legs.
It was her rejection that still stung all these years later. Call me weak or a pussy, but all I’d wanted was my mother to want me. When that didn’t happen I sought out chicks to make me love me. None of it mattered, none of it seemed real, this was different. Nyx was different.
We headed back downstairs, and the aroma of food grew stronger. Hearing someone in the kitchen, I paused and glanced back at her. “Why don’t you go grab something to eat, even if it’s light? I’ll see what progress has been made.”
“Okay.” She gently pulled her hand away and headed in the direction of the noise.
I ambled down the hall hearing only male voices from within the computer room.
“Nice of you to rejoin us. Enjoy my cousin?” Luce asked.
“I don’t think she would appreciate me that type of discussion.”
“Good answer,” Ice said, blue eyes trained on the monitor.
“Excellent fucking answer,” Luce reiterated.
“You testing him?” Zane came to my defense.
“I’m making sure my cousin is as well protected as my sister. She doesn’t have a brother so the responsibility falls to me.”
I kept my face blank, flicking my gaze to Zane, and then back to Luce. That was an odd thing to say considering Nyx certainly did have a brother. That wasn’t a normal type of slip up either.
Buddy had said the kid was sick,
but how would Luce know he had died before any of us?
Why was I asking myself this?
This was Luce. I had demons strong enough to bring the toughest man to his knees, but when I looked at Lucifuge all I saw was the next devil in line.
His words were always laced with double meaning, his mind a fortress of debauched thoughts and valleys of secrets only he could navigate.
“Any luck with the computer code?” I asked Ice.
“As a matter of fact, yes. I got in five minutes ago.”
I looked towards the screen that showed everything he was seeing, and watched him scroll through a batch of files.
“So, there’s about thirty-five videos just like the one you caught off, all different girls. This is who you saw.”
He double clicked one of the folders and an image appeared, an older version of the girl from the video.
