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When I returned, Cooley was talking to another pair of cops that had arrived.
Seth was in the back seat of the cruiser, still holding his head. “I don’t get,” he said. “Why are you playing her partner?”
“Cooley is offering to help us walk in the front door,” I explained. “But I have a better idea. Do your magic and make everyone ignore us. We’re stealing the cruiser.”
“What?”
I pointed to the recorder on the cruiser.
“I’ll jumble it,” Seth said, cracking open a high-calorie drink.
“I plan on murdering Nastafar in cold blood. And since Dean’s there, I’m killing two birds with one stone. I don’t want Cooley involved. She doesn’t need this on her.” I concentrated and formed myself into Cooley’s feminine shape, complete with badge.
Seth nodded. “Yes. Let’s leave her out of it.” The wizard glanced over at the woman. “It’s best she isn’t there for that. She sees enough shit as is.”
“Make her forget I mentioned Abbados’s place too. We’ll take care of it. Make it look like an accident.”
“Already ahead of you.” Seth had gone through two bottles of the disgusting stuff and was looking a little better. “I can also hide your real aura and replace it with a human woman’s just long enough for you to get invited into the home. Let’s go.”
No one stopped us as we drove away.
Chapter 35
Tansy
“Verynice,”saidthemiddle-aged looking wizard steepling his fingers. He’d changed into a long wizard’s robe straight out of a fantasy movie, and he had villain written all over him. A proper villain; not Mother’s half-assed facsimile.
We must be in his home. I glanced around, finally taking note of my surroundings. We were in a library. The books on the shelves were magical in nature. Everything was over-decorated, with ornate carpets and thick velvet drapes. The place looked expensive. If Nastafar had just returned from being dead for decades, then how did he get access to this place? It wasn’t Mother’s or Dean’s.
There was another cage next to mine. Liam! He was out cold. I never knew demons could be knocked unconscious. These bars must be spelled if they could hold a demon. This was the asshole who’d held Eamon captive, and I bet he planned to do the same to Liam.
“I worried you wouldn’t be worth all this trouble. I knew you had strong magic when you brought down that building.” He looked me up and down like he was about to purchase a horse. “But I hadn’t expected you to be a beauty too. You’ll make a fine mother to my heir.”
His heir? If this guy thought I was going to make little wizard babies with him, he had bad news coming. He wasn’t bad-looking, but knowing that he’d been helping Mother this whole time made him butt-ugly in my eyes. Besides, I’d already decided that my future babies would be half-demon.
“That’s not happening, old man.” Wasn’t he like a centenarian? Maybe even older?
I tested my magic subtly, just reaching a tiny arm of it out to touch the bars. Just as I thought, they prevented me from using my magic.
“You don’t have much of a choice,” he said, not giving any indication that he noticed my testing of the bars. “You’re mine to play with until you bear me two children. One male to continue my line, and one female to raise for Amrita.”
Mother would have me do all the hard work first before taking over and raising her next victim. Her words made sense now.
“We can do this one of two ways. I’m not an unreasonable man.” He spread his hands. “You can be nice, and I’ll do the same. Or you can fight me, and I’ll use force. Either way, I’ll get what I want.”
“Why are you even helping Amrita?” I asked, trying to get his angle. “There’s nothing she could give you. Besides, my truck isn’t with you. It’s with that hag. If all you wanted was an heir, you could have come straight to me. All I would’ve asked for was help in destroying her.”
“That would have been a better arrangement had I known about you before.” The wizard looked pensive.
I needed to get out of these bars, so I thought fast, hoping I was only a bad liar to Eamon because we had such a great connection. “It’s not too late,” I suggested.
I considered vamping the wizard but decided to play on his greed instead. I was banking that the asshole had no loyalty to Amrita, because she sure as hell wasn’t loyal to him. “It’s not like Amrita has anything else to give you that I can’t. Her current body is useless. Magicless.”
The evil wizard grinned. “You wish to make a deal. What makes you think you are in the position to barter?”
“You want power. So does Amrita. Do you really think that when she takes over my body, she’ll let you have any of the power and magic? She’ll turn on you immediately, and you know it.”
The doorbell rang, and Nastafar frowned. “Dean, see who it is!” he shouted.
