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She doesn’t know she knows—she doesn’t know much—but Alexander’s sweet little wife could tell you where to find me. It’s one of the places we’ve been together.
I sat up, curling off the pillows. My body was suddenly so flooded with adrenaline that my fingers wanted to shake holding the phone.
Stellan noticed, and he rested his hand lightly on my shoulder. “Out of the darkness, Aurora.”
But I didn’t need the rest of my mantra.
Because he was my light.
I leaned over, and he wrapped his arm around my waist and squeezed me tight. Into my hair, he murmured, “Now reel him in, Aurora.”
His confidence lit the same spark inside me. I had to be careful with the Demon now, but I could manipulate this into a clue about where he was.
Aurora:
Do you want to talk, Dad?
The Demon always wanted to talk. He loved to hear himself talk. I was sure that for his victims, the bone saws and scalpels were the worst torture, but listening to my father turn down his music to yap at them must have made their agony even worse.
And there was no one my father wanted to talk to more than me. He always wanted to get into my head and fuck with me.
It was no surprise when my phone rang a second later. From another number. My father knew how easily Remington’s program would trace him, and I could see Stellan already moving to Remy’s laptop to start the trace.
We’d need a minute. I’d keep him on the line that long.
“Hello, Dad.”
“Aurora.” His voice curled around my name as if it were sweet on his tongue, and my stomach clenched. “Listen, for once. I’m not going to waste time.”
Fuck, he probably guessed we were tracing. Or he knew what Remy set up, because he had tortured him. Images flashed through my mind, but I pushed them away to focus. I had to save Remy, not worry about him. “I’m listening. Tell me about Rebecca.”
I’d almost forgotten the name of Cain’s mother. She seemed so sweet but so irrelevant, compared to Alexander.
At least, she’d seemed that way to me until she struck out at Cain.
“For a while, Alexander and I were great friends, and Rebecca loves whoever Alexander tolerates.”
“Did you guys vacation together?” The Demon had taken me on too many ‘vacations’.
“In a manner of speaking, yes. I took on targets for Alexander. He came to see everyone he ordered killed. He did like to watch.”
Stellan and I exchanged a look. If the Demon was truly hiding someplace he had been before, then we might have a better chance of tracking down Alexander’s enemies who had disappeared. The police seemed to be barely moving on the Demon’s case, but I had no doubt that if Remy were here, he'd be able to find even the police files that had disappeared, thanks to Alexander’s connections.
“And Rebecca came too?”
“Never into the room, of course. But she loved to be near him and Alexander loved keeping her close. She would sit in another room and read her magazines, and Alexander would take her headphones off when the screaming was over and kiss her like a prince waking his sleeping beauty. Except I’m not convinced Rebecca will ever wake up.”
I started to ask another question, then realized I was talking to a dead line.
“You know he wants you face to face with her,” Stellan confirmed what I was already thinking. “Why?”
“He loves games,” I said. “He loves being the smartest person in the room.”
It didn’t occur to the Demon that his little girl just might be that one, not him.
“Do you have Rebecca’s number?” I asked.
Stellan sighed under his breath, already shaking his head.
