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“Good girl,” he said approvingly. The two of us went out into the parking lot. The cold sank through my too-small dress immediately, and I rubbed my goose-pimpled arms. Dad smiled at me as he opened my car door like I was a lady, then he threw the bags into the trunk. “Oh, I forgot I needed to grab milk!”
He glanced toward the drug store at the side of the mall.
“Can I stay here and read my books?” I begged.
“Oh, all right. But keep the doors locked, okay?” He got my bag from the bookstore out from the trunk and gave it to me.
He closed the door and left it unlocked, then walked away through the shiny sea of cars. I watched him with my heart in my throat.
I was more scared he would abandon me than I was of the strange man.
My car door opened suddenly and a strange man loomed there. “Hey, honey. Are you okay? You looked scared.”
“I’m fine,” I said, sliding across the seat, toward the opposite door.
“Your dad got held up. There was an accident in the store; a man fell and he’s helping him. I’ve got my daughter with me too, so I said I’d come check on you.”
He hadn’t had a daughter with him before.
My fingers wrapped around the door handle. The man’s gaze flickered toward me, then abruptly, he jumped toward me.
My father loomed behind him. He had a needle in his hand, which he drove into the man’s neck. The man cursed, turned to fight him–then the man went boneless. The Demon shoved him into the backseat, where he fell. His head almost landed in my lap. He tried to raise his hands, and they looked twisted like claws as he reached toward me, his eyes wide and horrified. Then his hands fell as if he’d lost the last of his power.
I scrambled out of the car.
“It’s all right,” the Demon said. “You’ll ride up front with me this time. Like a big girl.”
He smiled at me brightly as he bundled the man’s legs into the seats, then slammed the doors shut.
The monster was coming home with us.
Chapter1
Cain
The fire alarms started to go off in the middle of the party.
I’d been drinking with Stellan, who seemed like he was in pouty bitch mode, even though we were tormenting Aurora forhim.He was the one who needed revenge, like Pax had needed it for his mom. We just had to wring a confession from the bitch first.
It seemed like a waste to punish her, to be honest. She made the world a much more interesting place. The thought of a world without Aurora in it seemed like a drab, boring one, like the world felt to me most of the time until she strolled into my life.
“Here’s to you turning that frown upside down, asshole,” I said, clinking glasses with him. “You think Aurora murdered your sister. Now she’s crying because people hurt her feelings. You’re bringing her down and it tooknothing. WeCarriedher ass and she crumbled.”
I was disappointed Aurora had crumbled, to be honest. I’d expected more of a challenge from her.
Then the alarms went off.
Remington winced. “Hope that doesn’t hit the sprinklers and—oh fuck.”
The ceiling seemed to open up as water rained down on all of us. Girls scattered, shrieking, and the men were hardly any better. Remington pulled off his tux jacket and held it over his head. Too bad I’d taken mine off a while ago. Stellan’s white shirt was already half-transparent and clinging to his chest.
“Let’s find out who ruined our party and go kill them, shall we?” I suggested to my friends.
I turned to find a wide-eyed pledge standing in front of me. He managed to say, “There’s been an, ah, incident…”
“I can see that,” I said helpfully. I hated it when they acted scared of me. So pathetic.
But then, I also hated it when they weren’t.
