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"Nah, I'm gonna go," I said, shaking my head. She was snoring again before I was out the door.
CHAPTER 4
Samantha
My whole dayhad been crappy. First my teachers all decided today was the day to assign a million essays due in three days max, and Raiden hadn't returned a single text I sent him. It wasn't like him not to respond, and a part of me wondered if he had woken up when I had given into my imagination of him in my room. How embarrassing would that be?
As I crossed campus to the dining hall, my phone flashed with a text, and I nearly sprained a finger unlocking my screen. The breath I held slowly leaked out of me when I saw my brother's name. With a defeated sigh, I opened the text. Not that I didn't want to talk to him, I had just hoped it was Raiden.
Family meeting.
Could he be more cryptic?
OMW
I switched directions and headed back to my dorm to drop off my backpack before heading to my car. I wasn't in the mood for a family pow-wow, and it was just another thing to add to my list for the craptastic day I was having.
What if Raiden told them about finding me in the arms of the very demon incubus prince that I should have been hunting?The tiny reminder of that failure should make me feel ashamed. All I felt was a spike of residual desire to find out how it would have turned out if Raiden hadn't shown up when he did. Stupid, I know, on the same level of stupid as those girls that go into dark alleys with strangers.
The door swung open before I could even make it up the steps. My brother loomed in the doorway, his arms crossed over his broad chest.
Crap. He knew.
"We have to talk," he said, his jaw flexing like it did when he was upset.
"I can explain," I said, attempting to beat him to the punch. My cheeks burned with my shame. I wanted to turn around and run from the front porch, but I forced myself to stay.
"Explain?" His face scrunched up in confusion as he stepped aside to let me into the house.
I headed to the living room. My parents' concerned faces greeted me, but my full attention snagged onto Raiden, who leaned against the fireplace, arms and legs crossed, avoiding eye contact.
My face heated and flushed as I crumpled into the chair across from my parents. I did not want to admit to the situation I allowed myself to get tangled up in. One I'd probably submit to all over again, but there was something about his touch that made me crave him. Most likely the incubus part, he could kill me with that touch.
"Samantha, something has come to our attention about the demon," my father said.
I swallowed hard, my mouth was dry as a desert, and my throat felt thick. "I'm sorry—" Raiden cut me off with a loud cough and clearing of his throat. My gaze flicked back to him, and he shook his head slightly. Butterflies fluttered in my stomach, maybe I had misjudged the situation. I snapped my mouth shut, dragging my gaze back to my parents.
"What I mean to say is I'm sorry it took me so long to get here. Traffic was insane."
A frown formed on my mom's face as she picked up on my tiny lie. She took a small sip of her coffee, choosing not to call me out right now, but she would once the guys were out of the room. That was how she worked.
My dad waved his hand in the air, shooing my words away. Ty perched on the side of the sofa, facing me. The lines on his face were deep, making him appear more serious than he had ever been.
Oh god, what if Raiden heard me moan his name, and he told my brother? The blood drained from my head again, until I shook the thought away.That was silly. There was no way he heard me and shared it with Ty.
"Raiden has discovered," my dad said, taking a deep calming breath and stopping my heart all over again.
That his perfect daughter masturbated to the thought of having Raiden, his adopted second son between her legs, my brain supplied unhelpfully. I held my breath as my ears rang. The moment was suspended in time in front of me. Then my dad released his breath and looked at my mom.
"The-demon-prince-is-an-incubus," he said, rushing the words together in one huge, wordy sentence.
"He what?" I said as I shot to my feet. Of course, I knew that already, but it was not what I had mentally prepped myself for as I sat across from my family. I still wanted to murder him for that, and because of it, starting a war didn't seem like a badidea. It was probably the reason my body was still buzzing with unfulfilled lust.
I knew from my studies that incubi fed and then left the females they consumed for dead. If he'd been here for months, we should have heard reports of missing girls.
"How did you find this out?" I asked. I knew already, but I was playing the part. This was where the other shoe would drop, and they would tell me all about my weakness.
"Raiden had an encounter with him last night," Ty said.
