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She hadn’t even put up a fight about it She’d just kicked hi but an unwanted nuisance
Caleb snapped his fingers in his face “Nick! Stop!”
He glared at the demon “Stop what?”
“I can tell by the fire in your eyes what you’re thinking Kody loves you More than you understand What she did, she did for you and you alone Had you not left, Thorn would have returned and enslaved you, and the others would have killed you Don’t you dare let that Malachai hate build up inside you and take away from her selfless act I was there after you left I saw her break down and weep like you can’t iine And now she’s trapped there, completely alone With no one at all So don’t you dare hate her for what she did to save you”
Even so, it was hard The Malachai wanted to hate, and keeping that at bay was a constant struggle for hio-to happy place
But the thought of Kody in tears … that hit hiht of her in pain Especially not because of hio back for her”
Caleb shook his head “Without the Magus Stone, you can’t And right now, theis to reunite you and your body and put down your arether and party Not to mention, we don’t knohat your spirit will do here in this realrounded in your body, and with the two of you existing in the same time and space … that’s never supposed to happen And I don’t know the full ra So let’s take care of one catastrophe at a tirowled low in his throat “Speaking of catastrophes, wanna bet that’s Nick Two getting eaten by so?”
Without hesitation, Nick teleported to Caleb’s rooht of the true terror that awaited hi but this
Dery zo … except this—this ay beyond cruel, and far beyond his ability to cope
Truly, truly horrified, he gaped at the boy in his body as standing on a chair, squealing and pointing at the floor, where thein the world looked up in horror, too
Disgust overwheler in his body “What are you doing?”
“It’s a spider!” Nick Two screaesture toward the tiny creature on the floor
A spider? Really? Thank God it wasn’t a rat That would have probably sent hihed wearily “You screa? Seriously, dude? We live in New Orleans Ground zero for insects And here I thought so other than him
“It is! That’s a brown recluse! They’re poisonous”
Nick scoffed at his unwarranted hysteria Thank goodness this hadn’t happened at school—he’d never live it down And rightfully so Anyone this big a baby over so so ridiculous needed to be s and he’s laughing his butt off at the hunity, especially while you’re wearing ot treed by a har not to roll his eyes or say so really mean about it all, Nick stepped forward to pick up the spider and remove it from the rooh him
One second it was a tiny, harmless spider, and in the next, it was a beautiful woman with a vampiric dental problem An evil s his into his neck
“You are mine, Malachai … All mine”
CHAPTER 18
Nick’s head swa room with antique furniture He wasn’t sure if he was still in a huet any real bearings here It ht all be a drea Especially when it ca hiht have found seductive had she not just taken a chunk out of his neck He glared at her as he rubbed at the nasty wound that held a perfect i on a guy’s skin is nice Taking a bite out of his flesh, not the way to get a second date Just letting you know, you need to update whatever whacked-out guy ”
Tall, raven-haired, and pale-skinned, she licked his blood from her lips as she smiled and playfully ruffled his hair “You’rethan Adarian I think I like you better already”
Yeah, okay … There was so much about this thatthings But the primary concern he had was simple—“How can you bite me and make hed “You’re very real to me, and no matter where you are, I will always be able to find and touch you”
Had that come from Kody, he’d be thrilled with it Froer threat “Who are you?” More iain, she nipped at his chin with enough pressure to make it hurt “I’m your Šarru-Ninim, Livia As soon as I awoke, I followed the scent of your blood to you Or so I thought I knew the real Malachai couldn’t be that sniveling coho feared ed about the world while I endured , fearless Malachai is one of them” She ran her hand down his chest toward an area of his body that ht her hand and pulled it away “Babe, I don’t know you and uest list Consider my belt the velvet rope no one crosses without an express invitation”
She fisted her hands in his shirt and pulled hied her lips then twisted out of her aruy, make him bleed, and expect him to fall all over you Don’t knohere you’re from, but here, that’s considered rude”
She scoffed at him “You need to feed froive you the most power I’m the one šakkan you have on your team that no one is immune to”
He removed her hand from his arm “I still don’t understand how you can touch me when I have no body”
“Like you, there is only one of me, and we are bound by the blood of your ancestors Corporeal or not, makes no difference Now come, kiss htful place to unite and lead us into battle”
Nick shook his head “No offense, I don’t want to feast on anyone’s nectar” Mostly ’cause it didn’t sound all that sanitary or healthy, especially given how free and nonchalant she ith handing it out But he didn’t want to hurt her feelings, either, so he quickly added, “Not until I haveof anything other than working on an eviction notice for an arachnophobe who’s currently hu my real body”
She stared at him as if he made no sense to her whatsoever