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“Better.” She dropped the robe to the floor. The white fluff pooled around her bare legs. Long, bare legs that went on forever, all the way to the hem of her sapphire satin sleep shorts. She wore a matching tank top with thin spaghetti straps he could bite through with his teeth.
Lifting her hair, she waited.
Reaching over her head, he settled the necklace around her slender throat. The scent of gardenia soap wafted off her smooth skin as he fastened the clasp.
“I had one of DART’s mages infuse it with a ward that’ll repel succubi.” Although, probably not one of Lilith’s strength. Still, a ward couldn’t hurt.
“Your ex is a succubus?” She swung around, her eyes flashing with surprise.
“Something like that.”
“What happened between you two?”
Geez, how often in one day did he have to discuss this? “Let’s just say she couldn’t accept who I am. I made the mistake of trusting her with something personal, and she couldn’t deal.” Of course, he wasn’t talking about Lilith, but his ex had already taken up some headspace thanks to Draven, so he ran with the truth, even if it wasn’t about the female Eva was talking about.
“She sounds like a huge bitch,” she said. “I’m sorry you have to deal with her stalker ass now.”
“Yeah.” His gaze fell to the iris resting at the neckline of her top, just above her breasts. She was braless, and the outline of her nipples pressing against the silky fabric, nearly made him groan. Instead, he tore his gaze away and gestured to his pack. “I should brush my teeth and get ready.”
“Of course.” She glanced down at her comms. “It’s past my bedtime, and I’m still jet-lagged.” Her teeth caught her bottom lip, a pensive expression creeping into her face. “How is this going to work, anyway?”
He snared his pack. “You sleep, I wait. If the demon’s spirit shows up, I’ll catch it.”
She climbed onto the bed, giving him a tantalizing glimpse of her perky ass before she swung her legs under the covers. “How will you know it’s here? Some fancy DART equipment?”
“It’s not fancy, and you shouldn’t hear a thing.”
“How long will you wait for it?”
“As long as it takes, Eva.” He swung the pack over his shoulder and headed to the bathroom. “As long as it takes.”
Chapter Twelve
Eva wasn’t even close to being asleep when Logan came out of the bathroom and settled into the chair next to the bed. Leaning back, he stretched his long legs in front of him and crossed them at the ankles.
“You okay with the light off?” he asked softly.
“Yep.”
He reached over and flipped off the reading light, plunging the room into darkness. A few seconds later, her enchanted Aegis tattoo kicked in, allowing her to see shapes and shadows other humans couldn’t.
“Logan?”
“Yeah.”
“Thank you. Even if you don’t catch the demon, I appreciate that you’re willing to do this.”
“I’ll catch it, Eva. If it doesn’t show up tonight, then the next night. Or the next. I won’t give up, I promise.”
Her heart thudded so fiercely she swore the bed rattled. When was the last time someone had made a promise like that to her? One that was instantly comforting and made her feel safe? Probably when she was a kid, terrified of having the symbol tattooed onto her belly, and her mom had held her hand and promised that everything would be okay.
Eva had believed her parents, and for the most part, thingshadbeen okay. In fact, shortly afterward, the family law firm went international, and her parents took on The Aegis as clients. They’d moved from their upper-middle-class neighborhood in Boston to an ultra-wealthy suburb outside DC. She’d gone to elite schools, got great grades, and was eventually accepted into the prestigious new School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Yale. The demon had been mostly forgotten.
Except at night, when Eva’s sleep came in fits and starts, her dreams interrupted by the fear that a demon was scratching to get in.
“Logan?”
“Yeah.”
