A Demon Made Me Do It(83)

Chapter 20. Lucky


“C’mon, Diablo…move it,” I urge and squeeze my legs tight. He’s already racing at top speed, but I can’t get to Kings River crossing fast enough.

I start shouting for Bones as soon as I pass through Thiberoux’s Portal.

“Bones!...Bones!”

Soon, I’m rewarded with the sweet sound of his howl. The moment his black form emerges from the shadows I leap off Diablo’s back, not caring that he is still running at a gallop. I fly into Bones’ arms just as he regains his human form, and hold him tight. “Oh, I’m so happy to see you. I’m so glad you’re all right.”

“Geez, if I’d known that being shredded by some whorish hellhounds would make you act like this, I would’ve done it years ago.”

I laugh and pull away, appraising him. “You look so good. Perfect as always. Now, tell me everything that happened after I checked out. Don’t leave out a thing…” I pull him to a tree stump, and we sit down by the river of dancing fire, watching the orange flames swirl around themselves.

He stretches out beside me, fingering the lace of my dress. “Liora handled it like a champ. So did Kieron, I guess,” he adds, more as an afterthought.

“Tell me.”

“All I know is I was kind of out of it for a while…when I came to, you…I mean Liora, was pouring some Source Energy in me. It gave me enough strength to transform, and after I finished the rest of it, my wounds healed right away. Better than ever.” He flexes a perfectly shaped bicep and kisses it. I laugh and roll my eyes.

“Tell me about Liora…did she flip out? Did she go completely nutso on everyone?”

“Well…” he hesitates.

“Tell me!”

“She didn’t seem too pleased with Kieron. Do those two have something going on? And just how exactly does that work? Talk about a kinky threesome—”

“Forget them.” I brush my hand through the air. “What else…?”

He chuckles under his breath. “Okay, I might as well tell you now. I was worried about her. I knew she’d be scared and needed to get home safely. She was furious with Kieron and didn’t know how to ride Diablo, and I know how she feels about…our kind. But I needed to do something to put her at ease…just so she’d let me take her home.” He has a devilish smirk on his face.

My eyes narrow. “You didn’t…”

“Just a little bit,’ he says, pinching his thumb and pointer finger together. “Just enough to get her to submit and not put up a fight. But you should’ve seen her when I left her at the cabin. She was practically begging to have my little demon babies—”

I whap his arm and he laughs.

“I’d say overall, we dodged a bullet,” I mutter. “I can’t believe Jax did that. If he wasn’t already dead, I’d kill him myself—”

“Hey, guys.”

I hadn’t noticed Kieron approach. I stand up, brush off my dress and walk over to him. Then I give him a hug and a kiss on the cheek, relishing how good his body feels pressed against mine.

“What was that for?” he whispers as we pull apart. He glances over to where Bones sits and gives him a small nod. Bones turns away.

“For saving my friend. You were the one who got him the Source Energy. I don’t know what would’ve happened if…” My voice fades away.

He gazes into my eyes. There’s a sadness there. Unspoken truths that I can’t read. Is it because Liora is mad at him?

“What is it?” I ask quietly, moving my hand down the length of his arm until his hand is holding mine. He gives it a gentle squeeze and pulls me over to where Bones is staring out at the rippling fire.

“Actually, I need to talk to both of you…it’s about what happened last night.”

Bones looks over at us, his expression blank.

Kieron sits on the grass, me beside him. “I just wanted to say I don’t think it would be a good idea for it to get out what went down last night.”

Bones’ laugh is more of a sneer. “Of course it would. They killed one of ours when we went there on a peace mission. I know you’re not from around here, so you don’t really care if one of us lives or dies. But I care. I take it pretty damn personal when one of my boys gets torn to shreds.”

Kieron hedges. “Yeah…I understand that. But there’s something you should know…last night, when we re-visted the place where we found Cody and Ivy, I saw something…something I hadn’t noticed before.”

“Yeah, so?” Bones asks flatly.

“So, what I saw…what I sensed, leads me to believe that I know exactly what kind of demons killed them.” He eyes me pointedly at the word demons.