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The bastard’s lip curled. “I see I acquired you just in time. You might have been a force to reckon with if trained.”
“Oh yeah, maybe I don’t need training. I’ve got natural talent, you fat fuck. Behold!” I strained at my bound arms, my wrists pulling at the rope tying me to the picnic table.
To no avail.
Goddamnit. Why could I remove the gag but not untie myself? Fucking useless magic. Ask it to do one simple thing, remove bindings, and nope. It failed me.
The demon smirked. “I’ll tell Moloch you said hello.”
Just as the knife began to descend, the demon got knocked sideways as Cain dove into him.
Wait, what?
I blinked in astonishment as Detective Williams suddenly stood by my side and sawed at the ropes with a dagger.
“How?” I sputtered.
“You broke his spell,” Williams replied. “Good thinking, keeping him distracted while you freed us.”
Um. Yeah. Not exactly what I’d been trying to do, but it appeared to be working. A glance sideways showed Cain sitting atop the demon, his scythe pressing down. The demon’s expression was strained as he clutched the handle of the scythe, trying to keep it from severing his head. His fingers smoked at the contact, and he snarled, “I won’t be defeated by the likes of you.”
Cain barked, “A little help.”
Williams dove and slashed with his dagger, a slice that opened up the flesh on the fucker’s leg. Not a fatal wound but one painful enough he lost his concentration and the scythe descended.
There was no last-second evil demon speech. No explosion of magic or opening of a portal to Hell.
One second, the demon wizard was going to kill me. The next? His body vanished in a puff of acrid black smoke.
The threat to my life was gone, leaving me alive and naked with two men ogling me.
Since it was too late to hide the goods, I did the only thing I could in that moment. “So are we having a celebratory orgy, or is someone going to give me a shirt to wear?”
I got Williams’s coat. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed.
21
With the demon wizard dead and Moloch safely locked away, I should have been relieved. I wasn’t, because do you know what that asshole Cain said?
“We should get you back to the castle just in case there’s another daemessorum close by.”
Another?
What the fuck?
I stared at him before blurting out, “You mean this isn’t over?”
“Do you really think Inferis only has the one wizard?” Cain scoffed.
“I thought they were rare.”
“They are, and so are you. Which means if word has gotten out, and I assure you it has, then I would wager everything I own that more of them will be crossing over, looking to finish what this one started.” Cain didn’t pull any punches with the truth.
My lips pursed. My mind whirred. My fists clenched. So call me naïve, I’d assumed this would be like the movies. Kill the bad guy and live happily ever after. Or at least live, in my case. It wasn’t as if I had a man interested in me. After all, here I stood, wearing only a coat, and did the two men who came to my rescue eye me with smoldering interest or drag me close for a reassuring hug? Kiss me in relief?
Nope. They chose to scare me.
“This is bullshit. I never asked to be a reaper witch.”
