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“You’re looking at this all wrong, Lily. I can’t tell you directly because of the code that binds demons. I can’t give away the secrets of another demon’s job. But I can tell you that you need to stop thinking about who is at the hotel and morewherethe hotel is located.”
“I swear to God, I’m going to find a way to stop you before you can kill anyone else—”
“Figure out thewhere, you’ll determine thewhy, and that will lead you to thewho.”
A splitting headache begins to form behind my eyes. But what he says burrows in deeply, sinking its claws into me.
“I don’t understand,” I confess at last, my voice embarrassingly shaky.
Levi licks his lower lip, his eyes ensnaring my own. “Not yet, but you will.”
Then, before I can even gather my discarded wits, he swats away the dagger as if it’s nothing but a toothpick and looms over me. The heat his body emits is almost palpable and seeps through the T-shirt I’m wearing—Brooks’s T-shirt.
“I won’t hurt you, Lily. I’m doing all I can to help you. But demons have rules, and I’m not allowed to interfere in matters that don’t concern me.”
“I don’t—”
“You’re going to wake up now.” His husky voice curls around me like smoke. “And you’re going to do what I told you—look into thewhereinstead of thewho.”
“Levi, what the fuck—”
“Wake up.” The two words seem to emanate unexplainable, effortless power. They cut into me like the sharpened tip of an arrow.
“WAKE UP!”
I jerk upright in bed, my heart racing and my palms slick with sweat. Fear tunnels into my throat and forms a stiff ball of tension that’s impossible to swallow around.
What the fuck was that?
“Lily?” Brooks’s voice is tight with concern, and his dark eyes are guarded as he sits upright in bed. The quilt pools around his waist, leaving his naked chest on display. “Are you okay?”
He pulls me against him, his arms enveloping me in warmth.
“I…I want to look at a map,” I blurt, ignoring his arched eyebrow and wary stare.
“A map of the hotel?”
“A map of supernatural hotspots.”
26
TWENTY-SIX: LILY
“Motherfucker,” I hiss beneath my breath as I check the map once, twice, three times, half expecting to see something I missed the first time around.
But nope. I receive the same results no matter which angle I look at it.
The hotel is located smack dab between two roads.
Crossroads.
Motherfucker.
“How could we have missed this?” Brooks forks his fingers through his hair in agitation as he begins to pace.
“Because the hotel and land surrounding it have been altered over fifteen times in the last one hundred years.” I scrub a hand down my face as a burst of weariness hits me, making my legs feel unsteady. “There’s no way we could’ve known.”
“Could’ve known what?” Jackson pushes the door of the honeymoon suite open the rest of the way and then steps inside, Orion a few paces behind him.
