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He'd been shot.
The next second, he stumbled forward, wrenching something out of his chest. "It's a fucking tranq dart," he shouted at me. "Get out of here, Aurora!"
The Demon was here too.
"No," I scrambled toward him, trying to get around the other cars that blocked us. I had to vault the hood of one, since the two were smashed into each other. Luckily, the civilians had cleared the streets, running desperately.
"Listen to me." Cain was still on his feet and moving despite the tranq dart. He was enormous, after all, taller and more muscular than any normal man; he always looked like a god, and right now, I wished he was one.
I wished the Demon couldn't hurt him.
"You're the key to saving Pax and Remy and Stellan," he said. "And me. You need to take care of yourself, Aurora. Get in the car and get out of here."
He stumbled away from me.
"Wrong direction, Cain," I called, hearing a desperate catch in my throat. "You don't ever walk away from me."
Just like he had said to me, after I gave him a dismembered hand and all my honesty. When he caught me and proved that nothing would ever destroy his love.
Except death.
"Go," he shouted, as the Demon's worshippers began to stream out into the chaos. He reloaded again, then took down one after another, but we were going to run out of ammo.
Even after everything that had happened to him, he was still moving. The tranq dart had barely seemed to make an impression.
"Cain," I shouted, but he didn't stop moving. "If you fucking leave me, I'll hunt your ass down through the gates of hell."
"Go, Aurora!" He wouldn't move toward the car, even though it was still so far away.
Fuck, Cain. I knew he wouldn't leave me. But he couldn't save me, either. And I couldn't get to him.
Cain was fast and strong. But the Demon's power was nothing to be fucked with. The sedative was finally doing its terrible work.
Cain's gun fell from his hands.
One of the Demon's men took the opportunity to get near him.
He was dazed, and the other man had a knife, the blade catching the light as it rose.
I couldn't leave him. We had to fight for each other.
"Cain! Kill him!"
Cain turned to see the man. He was moving more slowly than usual, but Cain at half power was still incredible. He grabbed the man and snapped his neck, the blade hitting the ground a second before the body did.
"I'm not leaving you," I screamed.
"Of course not," a voice said, sounding pleasantly amused. I turned to see the Demon walking slowly toward us, through the smoke and fog from the gunfire and the burning cars, as if he had all the time in the world.
"Are you going to come with him?" the Demon asked politely. "It's time to come home."
"Where's home?" I demanded.
"Wherever I am, Delilah." The Demon sounded surprisingly tender. "If I thought you might be lost to the outside world...the chaos you've left behind you tells me you can be redeemed. You're still my girl. You can learn to obey again."
The Demon waved a hand, and Cain convulsed but tried to keep moving forward.
"What was in the tranq dart?" I screamed at the Demon.
