“Demons don’t mate.”
“But you have a soul.”
Two, actually. I just shrugged. “Doesn’t matter, since it doesn’t seem to be helping whatever this is,” I waved my hand into the air and scowled.
“Just wait until we talk to Cassius. Want me to drive?”
At that I did laugh. “No. I’m never getting in a car with you ever again. I don’t care that we don’t die, it’s petrifying.”
He gave me a disappointed look, stupid dog. “I’m not that bad.”
“You’re right, you’re worse.” I felt him follow me into the living room as I grabbed my keys and then remembered that I needed to drive a different car because of… ahem, reasons.
“Where’s the—”
“Don’t ask.” I said through clenched teeth. “I’ll take the Tesla today.”
“Hmmmm.” Mason grinned. “Tarek said you had a busy day yesterday. Now I’m even more curious. Oh also…” He sniffed the air. “You smell like ash and sunshine.”
I shook my head. “You need to work on your compliments, I always smell like ash. Demon, duh. And the sunshine is probably because it’s coming out of your ass twenty-four seven hitting anything in its path.”
“Aw,” Mason touched his hand to his chest. “I knew one day we’d be best friends.”
“Yes, here boy!” I slapped my thighs. “That’s a good boy, sit boy, roll over.”
Thunder literally erupted over the house as Mason’s eyes went a creepy white.
“Stop with the tricks.” I shoved him out of the way and went into the garage, and called over my shoulder. “Wanna race?”
I was out of the garage in seconds while he ran to his waiting motorcycle. And actually smiled as he tried to throw me from the road several times on our way to Ethan’s.
He was right about one thing: at least I had a friend, even if I would die before admitting it to him.
An arctic coldness seeped through me when I realized that if I couldn’t stop this, whatever it was, I would need to leave, because there was no way I would expose them—my friends, my family—to the darkness growing within.
By the time we made it to the house, Ethan was already waiting for us outside like he knew we would be there, stupid vampire. Cassius and Stephanie were casually flirting with one another which just made me wonder what sort of alternate reality was permeating the human race when angels and half angels were smiling like that at each other.
Disgusting.
Alarming.
Ignore the pain in my hand and on my chest.
Right.
And just like that, I saw the black inky dark mist in my car. I was bringing destruction to everyone, wasn’t I?
I got out of my car and gave them a withering look. “Could you do that elsewhere?”
“No.” Cassius just shrugged. Ah, so easy to work with. I just loved my co-workers. Ignoring him, I stomped into the mansion and went in search of something.
The information they had?
Silence?
Just something that would shake me out of my dream, out of the memories that kept attacking me from within.
The council all followed me back inside, Alex was in the library shocking the hell out of me by actually reading.