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After Freddie drops that bombshell,Lily’s face turns green.
My brothers and I exchange looks. Whatever happens next, she’s in no state to hunt a demon right now.
As far as we know, the rest of the guests aren’t in immediate danger. Lily and I are the ones staying in the honeymoon suite. Lily is the one who Levi has his beady demon eyes on. She’s our first priority.
She’s always first for us.
I hold the elevator while Jackson and Orion bundle Lily inside. She falls asleep in Jackson’s arms, her head resting on his shoulder. He looks up at me with such an expression of hopelessness that it makes my heart stutter.
“What did he do to her?” I growl, my fingers brushing her limp wrist.
A small moan escapes from her lips.
“Why is she so faint?”
“You know why,” Jackson growls.
“I don’t think it’s that. I’ve read about this. It’s a reaction people get sometimes after being in close contact with a demon,” Orion says. “Demons who have an emotional connection to a human can energetically feed off them—fear, love, desire. All those emotions are like fine wine and caviar to a demon, and if they have a physical connection too, he can…”
Orion breaks off as he realizes what he’s saying. But it’s too late.
I see fuckingred.
If he fucked our Lily—myLily—I am going to eviscerate him and use his demon intestines as a skipping rope.
SMASH.
I’m vaguely aware of someone yelling and the sound of glass breaking. But it doesn’t register as something I need to bother with until my back slams against a wall.
“You have to calm down.Now.The last thing we need is to be kicked out of the hotel because you’re breaking the elevators.”
Jackson.
No,Orion.He pushes lightly against my chest, his eyes burning with pain. He’s never stood up to me like this before. I wrestle against my desire to punch him, to punch everything, to fucking go berserk because that monstertouchedher. He touched her, and he hurt her, and there’s not a thing I can do.
The rest of the elevator swirls into view, and I see bits of the elevator’s light fitting smashed on the floor, and a hole punched in the wall, and Jackson looking very, very afraid.
And Lily, sound asleep in Jackson’s arms, her red hair cascading over his shoulder like a waterfall of fire.
“She just needs to rest,” Orion says gently. “She should be okay in an hour or two, as long as he hasn’t done anything more to her we don’t know about.”
The elevator dings, and we rush out. I unlock the door to our suite, and Orion pulls back the sheets on the huge bed. Lily flops in Jackson’s arms, the sweatshirt she wears dwarfing her tiny body.
I swallow hard.She’s beautiful.
“Should we put her in her pajamas?” Orion asks.
“She’ll kill us if she knows we undressed her while she’s asleep,” Jackson says.
“Besides, she sleeps naked,” I add.
Orion drops the sheet. Jackson looks like he wants to kill me. I don’t volunteer any more information, like how she drools on her pillow, and how she cries out sometimes in her sleep because she’s plagued by nightmares.
We tuck Lily in, propping her on her side. And then we get in a huddle in the corner of the room.
“What do we do?” Jackson’s eyes flash. “We’re not equipped to fight a demon. Who the fuck even is?”
“What did our parents say about demons?” I ask Orion.
