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"You don't even have an Alexa in Hell," Arkan pointed out, watching Taj with a scary intensity. "Do as Aveline says and lift your shirt."
Taj rolled his eyes, opened the yule log box, and bit into it like it was a damn Snickers bar.
"Fine," he groaned, lifting the loose black T-shirt he wore.4
I sucked in a breath. "Taj!"
"I'm fine. All the good stuff's still on the inside."
"NowI'mgoing to kill you," Arkan hissed, his expression sharp. "You should still be in the hospital bed,healing."
"I'm alive; I'm awake. I'll be fine," Taj muttered, biting off more chocolate roll. The man was insane. "X healed from an axe wound and Joseph literally had a candlestick buried in his chest."
"You were cutall the way throughfrom your shoulder toyour fucking hip bones, Taj!" I seethed, restlessness making my leg bounce under Arkan's hand. "Get back in bed, right the Hell now."
His eyes sparkled.
"Onemore comment," I warned, "and I'll cut your fucking dick off."
If anything, more amusement filled his features, bringing his whole face alive like he enjoyed me shouting at me.5"And do what with it?" he purred.
Arkan pinched the bridge of his nose like he'd had enough. Taj had been back with us for less than an hour. The prince heir had serious talent, that was for sure.
"Are you seriously insinuating I'd use your dismembered cock as a dildo?" I demanded, exasperated.
Taj grinned. "Best toy of your damn life."
"That's it," I huffed, standing. "I'm strangling you back into a coma."
But when he patted his thigh, I gave him a surly look and climbed into his lap.
"This is only because you're badly injured and I feel sorry for you," I told him seriously.
"Understood," he replied in the same tone, his eyes trailing over my rumbled clothes and messy hair like I was somehow sexy. "Yule log?"
I narrowed my eyes, but leaned forward and took a bite of cake and chocolate ganache. My stomach growled at the first taste, reminding me I'd been awake all night and hadn't eaten anything since … whenever I'd last eaten something. Yesterday evening? Afternoon?
"So," Taj muttered, his stony throat bobbing. "Are you going to answer my question?"
"Joseph's safe," Arkan said instantly, leaning forward and looking unnervingly human hunched over, his hands dangling between his thighs. "I got him to the safe house in Vida."
Taj's nostrils flared with a sharp inhale, another immediately filling his lungs, then another. He heard what Ark didn’t say as loudly as what he did.
I stroked his black hair and the base of his four horns, trying to soothe his blind panic.
"Where's X?" he demanded roughly.
Tears stung my eyes. I dug my fingernails into Taj’s shoulders, even if I should have been careful with him.
Taj hyperventilated, choking out snarls as his frantic stare ping-ponged between us. "Lina! Ark! Where the fuck is X?Where is he?"
A pitiful demonic whine filled my throat, but I couldn't let Arkan answer. I didn't know why, only that my instincts pushedmeto say it, so I did.
"Eidolon took him," I whimpered.
The walls shook with the force of Taj's fury.
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