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"Whatever you want, Glory" Penny sighed "But I could help, you know Don’t underestiot so weapons here"

"I just bet he does Thanks, but not this ti up Penny worked for Ian MacDonald The vaenius and had probably conant one? That had to give hts and hear your conversations, don’t you?" Alesa stood in the doorway "Co room and tell me what you’ve been up to lately Who is this Penny?"

"Like I’d confide in you? Forget Penny Sit on the sofa and wait for your food" I finished my synthetic and rinsed out the bottle for the recycle bin Good thing I didn’t need to inhale, because the sweet stench of hell would have put me off my drink completely When I heard the knock on the door, I realized I still had a turban on my head and no makeup Swell The only upside of this is that Alesa’s neas bound to take my looks completely off Rafe’s radar At least edred color

I walked to the door, aware of Alesa’s eyes following me She had a smirk on her face that made me want to slap her My stomach knotted as I threw the dead bolts

"I could smell demon fro on here?" Jeremy Blade, my lover and my maker, strode into the room He stopped at the foot of the couch and stared at Alesa, who stretched as if to show off her plump breasts in her low-cut violet sweater He didn’t see one of his knives out of his boot

"Jerry, stop You know you can’t kill a demon with a knife" I put my hand on his ar we’d tried had failed They seeht was to send them back to hell and it took a priest or other type of holy man and some other powerful stuff for that

"Maybe not, but I could enjoy trying" Jerry wasn’t about to put his knife away "What’s this bitch doing here?"

"Causing trouble, what else?" I pulled Jerry toward the kitchen "Alesa, don’t say a word Please Let ave her a look that she actually heeded She just sat back with a smile and a wave

"Handle what? Me?" Jerry looked down at ht ere finally done with deainst hih soivehim with Rafe, as part de inside me Demon tricks Then other deh it all, Jerry had been there for me

I held on to him He’d positively hate this latest develop to do with us Rafe had a probleht on h this And I was deternant, Jer" I looked up when I said this To gauge Jerry’s reaction

"The hell you say" He slid his knife back into his boot "Why’d she show up here?"

"She claims it’s Rafe’s child Made while she was inside me"

"That’s a cock-and-bull story if I ever heard one" Jerry shook his head "She wasn’t corporeal And you…" He hugged ot to know you can’t conceive a child"

"I know that I said the sa Lucifer kicked her out for being pregnant and saying it’s Rafe’s" I pushed back "He’s on his way"

"Let them hash this out, demon to demon" Jerry watched hed Now it started Jerry would never understand the depth of uardedyears He’d risked his life for me and shared secrets that I’d told no one else I loved Rafe Just as I loved Jerry Well,and turbulent history, four hundred years’ worth Rafe and I were friends, briefly lovers and equals in a way Jer and I could never be

"You could leave the roo hurt" He faced ain and shook his head "Demons play dirty, you know that Alesa will ht to do with Rafael if she wants hiht Yet here she is Atset up? Alesa hatedher trapped in ed, according to the other demons I’d met And Lucifer wasn’t crazy about ed to best him the last time we’d met I knew he’d been pissed off about that And when you pissed off the Devil…

"Tell her to leave To take her brat and deal with Valdez elsewhere" Jerry grabbed my shoulders "It’s the only way you’ll be safe"

We both turned at the knock on the door I really needed to breathe I’dof Jerry’s arrival and now Rafe had ed to sneak up on me