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Itexted the Demon a dozen times.I was desperate to know what the cost was for Remy’s life. I only got a single response back.
The Demon:
Patience.
Cain left us the next day to negotiate with one of his dad’s old business partners, who was willing to consider working with Cain instead. Cain was dismantling his father’s empire one ally at a time.
I was pretty sure anyone who really saw Cain realized which one of them would be the winner. There was something unstoppable about Cain, and it was the true reason—more than the height, the muscles, the tattoos or the unexpectedly angelic face—why everyone stopped when Cain walked into the room. Cain’s presence was awe-inspiring. Every time I saw the way others reacted to him, I felt a thrill of pride. This incredible, dangerous man was mine.
Cain did not leave Stellan and me without making a lot of threats.
Since we were the ones who really saw him, neither of us were impressed.
“Stay here, stay out of trouble,” he warned us both.
“Yes, Daddy,” I teased. He could be so overprotective. It was cute, though.
Cain’s lips twitched in response. “Damn right. That’s all I want to hear come out of this sweet mouth.” He ran his thumb over my lower lip before he leaned in and kissed me.
Then he told Stellan, “Lose her and I’ll—”
“I know,” Stellan shut him down. “I love her too, Cain, I’m not going to lose her. Now go before you piss her off.”
“Stellan has a point,” I said. “I know how much you like to watch—”
“And boss us around,” Stellan cut in, though he didn’t look particularly offended.
“But you won’t like it if you aren’t allowed to do anything but watch.”
Cain’s eyebrows rose. “Not allowed?”
“You know we just allow you to punish us because we like it,” I purred, running my fingernails down his hard chest, beneath the perfect lines of his suit jacket.
Cain scoffed. “We’ll talk about that later.”
It was cute that he thought he was the one in control. I was the one who had four men who adored me. We might pretend, but we all knew the truth.
Cain headed for the door, but thinking about my four men had brought a spike of pain to my chest.
“Cain!”
He turned back, and I ran to him. He held out his arms when he saw my face, and I jumped into them. He caught me easily, holding me as his lips met mine in a hard, passionate kiss.
“Come back to me,” I murmured against his lips.
“Aurora, you and I—and I suppose these assholes too—have been inevitable since the moment I saw you. Our fathers are a temporary blip. Of course I’m going to come home to you. And the rest of them will too.”
He sounded so confident it was impossible not to believe him.
As soon as he left, Stellan and I settled into bed with our room service. The hotel we were staying at had an amazing menu, and Cain had watched it be dropped off—his gun in hand—before he wheeled the cart in. Now Stellan brought the cart up beside the bed. There was an enormous stack of stuffed French toast and crispy bacon, and I leaned back against the headboard and pulled the crisp white sheets and comforter over my legs as I started to eat. I had to keep my strength to help Remy and Pax. The process might as well be delicious.
Stellan turned on the TV, and I knew he loved me because he put on a romance movie, Ruining Dahlia, without any prompting. I had watched it twice before, but I definitely would have been down for watching it again on a normal day.
But this wasn’t a normal day.
This was a day I needed to fight for my men. And although Cain and Stellan had their plans based on Remy’s program still running, monitoring the police leads, and on Cain’s own connections, it wasn’t enough. I couldn’t sit here and wait for someone else to save my men.
In the end, it was always going to come down to me and the Demon.
