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"You gotta ad you twitchy and unpredictable, and you’ve never been either You’re acting like Wraith Well, Shade, anyway"
Eidolon removed the catheter from his arm and stanched the blood with a cotton ball "This isn’t about my duty schedule, and you aren’t concerned about my performance It’s about Tayla"
"Tayla? You two so buddy-buddy that she’s not just the Aegi whore anyh, a high-pitched hyena yip "See what the s’genesis is doing to you, Se, Eidolon caet that" Yuri ht up in Eidolon’s face "But she wasn’t yours to turn loose This was a matter for the Maleconcieo, and you should have taken her before it"
The Maleconcieo, the demon UN, a council formed of members of the most powerful of all demon species, would have salivated over the opportunity to question Tayla Yuri was right, but that fact only angered Eidolon o so she could be watched, so she would co to hi his dick instead of his brain?
"Back off, shapeshifter I knohat I’ wickedly, but before he could say anything, the door to the lab burst open Dr Shakvhan, an ancient succubus who practiced Druidic estured to Eidolon
"It’s Luc"
Yuri and Eidolon raced to the ER, where Luc rithing on an exa from various wounds as Gem and half a dozen nurses atte fro fluorescent bulb
"What happened?" Eidolon nudged a nurse aside while Yuri ordered a vitals check and gloved up
The nurse next to him cursed when Luc jerked his arm out of the restraints "He cah the ER doors and hasn’t said anything"
Eidolon grasped Luc’s furry face, narrowly avoiding his snapping jaws "Soers "Luc Luc! Focus Look at h the pain in his dark eyes, and he turned huis," he rasped
"Killedher My mate"
Mate? He hadn’t known Luc wasEidolon used the pads of his fingers tothe skin of Luc’s neck, which seemed to calm him "You’re safe now But I need you to hold human form so we can talk Can you do that?"
Luc roared, his wail rattling the equip animalsthey smelled like ani the unspoken go-ahead for sedation "Luc, I need you to tell me what they did to you"
Luc’s body thrashed, but his eyes caught and held his "They weren’t going to kill me," he said, and a tremor of dread shot up Eidolon’s spine "They wanted me alive, doc They wanted is HQ the nextUnable to sleep in the bed that still smelled like Eidolon, she’d curled up on the couch with Mickey As the first glooh her kitchen , the phone had started ringing
She’d ignored it But she couldn’t ignore the pounding on her door hours later Kynan’s knocking had been soft at first, but had grown rapidlyto break down the door
She’d opened it, and immediately wished she hadn’t
"We lost Trey and Michelle last night"
Oh, God Numb, she backed away from the door and collapsed onto the couch "How?"
"They were tracking a pack of olves with Bleak and Cole Got ambushed inside a house They took out a female, but lost the others"
Despair settled over her like a chilled blanket With Janet’s death, that made three Guardians lost in the span of a hen they hadn’t lost even one in over a year And Taylashe’d been co, aren’t we? The battle We’re losing"
Kynan dropped to one knee and clamped a hand on her wrist "Do not say that Don’t even think it The fight against evil has always been a marathon, not a sprint" She tried to jerk away froentle "Everyone is feeling the sahter You can lead the others and help our cell through this Coood for you For everyone"
For a h she’d never been a social creature, right now, she felt more alone and out of place than ever Still, she had a feeling that being a the other Guardians would only emphasize her loneliness When she was by herself, no one looked at her as if she were a black sheep No one talked through her instead of to her Certainly, no one would look at her as if they knehat Eidolon had said and were trying to figure out for the the truth
Join the club
"I can’t," she finally said "I need to be alone"
She also needed to be able to get up in the , check the ht
And on the subject of de device she’d planted on Eidolon had led The Aegis to the hospital Then again, if it had, Kynan would have told her by now
"Kydo you think there is such a thing as good demons?"
He blinked, taken aback "Ah, well, there are eudaiht to be guardian angels"
"But can other deotten into you?"
Eidolon had Twice
"I guessI justwhat if they aren’t all bad?"
He felt her forehead with one hand, checked her pulse with the other, histo take you to the hospital You’re tachy and a little waris doctor--"
"Tayla, you’re talking crazy And it isn’t a bad idea to have you checked out Who knoas done to you at that demon hospital" She pulled away, and this time he let her, but he moved up to the couch