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“Zalramon! Knock! You need to learn to knock!” Sky shouted at the demon king.
The demon in question smirked at him, tilting his head to the side so that his horns tapped on the wooden doorjamb. “Am I interrupting?”
“Obviously! It’s bad enough that you and your friends cleaned out my fridge last night, but you’re kind of interrupting important private time.”
“Naked private time, it seems.” Zalramon licked his lips, his dark eyes skimming over Sky before moving and sticking to Nolan.
Oh, no. No! No! No!
There was no way in this world or the underworld that he was sharing his hot neighbor with a demon. Even if he was a demon king. Wasn’t happening.
“Did you come here for a reason, or were you in the mood to interrupt my life some more?” Sky snapped. The sooner he got Zal to the point of his visit, the sooner he could get rid of the demon.
“Ah…yes. Right,” Zalramon drawled. The demon looked sheepish as he scratched his jaw with one long, black fingernail. “So, I have mended the leak created in your doorway. I will have the ability to come and go without being summoned, and it won’t create another tear.”
“How lovely for you,” Sky grumbled, crossing his arms over his chest as he glared at the demon.
“Other demons won’t be able to do that. You’d have to summon them,” Zal pressed on, sounding as if he were doing Sky a favor. It didn’t feel like it since it was the demon in front of him that was causing all the problems.
“Did your people track down what got out into our realm?” Nolan inquired.
That made Zal wince. This would not be good.
“Yes. A pack of three…dandy dogs.”
Sky squeezed his eyes shut, dropped his head back, and groaned.
“Dandy dogs? What’s that? Like hellhounds?” the sexy man beside him asked.
“No,” Sky whined. “Hellhounds would have been better.” He lifted his head and gazed at his companion with his adorably ruffled hair. “Dandy dogs are wild. They’re the basis for all those Wild Hunt stories.”
“When they broke out, they dragged some underworld energy with them. With the leak sealed, that shouldn’t be a problem anymore,” Zal continued. That meant there should be no more dead randomly crawling out of their graves.
Sky glared at the demon. “I’m going to guess the dogs are my problem, though.”
Zal grinned at him, flashing two rows of white, pointed teeth. “Would you rather I set loose a bunch of my demons to round them up?”
“No,” Sky moaned. Demons and dandy dogs loose in Hartford sounded like an enormous mess. He’d just find a way to handle it himself.
“Excellent.” Zal clapped his hands and rubbed them together. “I’ll leave the dogs to you. They shouldn’t go after any humans. Well…probably not.”
The demon disappeared from Sky’s bedroom in a puff of black smoke and a lingering scent of brimstone.
They sat in silence for a full minute, Sky’s mind whirling in a hundred different directions. How the hell was he supposed to locate and capture three dandy dogs before they gnawed on the living?
Nolan cleared his throat next to Sky. “Huh, I guess that answers one question.”
“What got out?”
Nolan’s lips twitched as if he were fighting to hold in a smirk. “We finally know who let the—”
Sky lunged at Nolan, slapping his hand across the man’s mouth while his body shook with suppressed laughter. “I swear on all the new and old gods, Nolan Banks, if you say it, I’ll never let you fuck me again!”
Nolan’s lips spread into an even bigger smile under his palm. Both of his eyebrows lifted and his eyes widened. They both knew Sky was bluffing, and it wasn’t even a good bluff.
Grumbling, Sky released Nolan’s mouth, grabbed the blankets, and pulled them up over his head as he flopped on his pillows.
“Dogs out,” Nolan said as if he hadn’t been interrupted.
