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I’ll find you, Naomi.Some-the-fuck-how, Luka would find her.“I’m going to search the places where we thought the monastery might be again, starting with the first one.”
“Whoa,” began Tobe, “wait a second.The prophecy might state that you and Naomi take down theLemures, but we want our pound of flesh too.”He waved a hand, gesturing at himself, the other imps, and Tia.
“Fine,” Luka bit out, “you can come along.”
Tobe pursed his lips.“Or ...”
“Or what?”Luka pushed impatiently.
“Or we use the GPS tags that I put on her shoes without her knowledge.Yeah, I know she’s gonna rip me a new one, but I regret nothing.I already have the phone app trying to lock onto the tags as we speak.It won’t give us herexactlocation, but it’ll give us a general idea of where she is.”
It was better than nothing.Later, Luka would be pissed at the imp for putting trackers on his mate.Right now, his priority was getting to her.Just hold on for us, baby, we’re coming.
Jolene sidled up to him.“Don’t worry, Luka.Naomi will be fine.Truth is, it’s the clerics and their angel who are in the most danger.”
Luka felt his brow crease.“What does that mean?”
She spared his bodyguards and Daniil a quick look.Do they know about Naomi’s parentage?she asked Luka telepathically.
Daniil knows nothing.I told the twins only that her biological father is a fallen angel and then swore them to secrecy, he replied.
The Prime pressed her lips together, hesitating to continue.
Luka turned to his demons.“Give us privacy for a moment.”Once the three were out of hearing range, he refocused on Jolene.“Speak freely.”
“You have an honorary niece who’s half celestial,” began Jolene, “so you’ll know that demons like Naomi are ...different.”
“Yes, I’m aware,” said Luka.
“It also often means that their inner entities are different.Sometimes even unstable to some degree.”
“What are you getting at?”
“Presumably you’ve met Naomi’s demon?”Tobe probed, though it wasn’t really a question.
“Of course,” Luka confirmed.
“I’ll bet it’s made brief appearances here and there to warn you to behave but hasn’t really involved itself in anything happening around it,” Tobe hedged.
“Sounds about right.”
“It doesn’t give a shit about anything except its own survival and that of the person with whom it shares its soul.Naomi’s demon will protect her to the death, but it won’t do that cleanly or carefully.It won’t be subtle, won’t show an ounce of mercy, won’t be leery of attracting human attention.Because, in truth, there’s nothing low-key about that demon.”
Luka narrowed his eyes, his own entities locked on the male imp, sensing there was more.
“She and her demon have a deal,” Tobe added.“Unless she’s in the gravest danger, unless her life istrulyat risk, it won’t interfere; it will let her handle it.But if the threat is too big, if she’s outnumbered, the entity gets to take charge and eliminate the danger.Naomi has to take a back seat.”
Luka felt his brow furrow.She’d told him nothing of this.“And if the demon gets to take the wheel?”
“We’d better hope she’s somewhere isolated.Somewhere no humans will stumble upon anything they shouldn’t.Somewhere no random demons might witness what she can do and just how much power she carries.Because if they do—human, demon, child, adult, innocent, guilty—the entity will kill them all.It allows no witnesses to live.”
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Just hold ...baby ...coming, said Luka, his psyche bumping hers.
Naomi gently cricked her neck, trying to ease the ache there—an ache that had been caused by her head being slumped forward while she was out cold.Waking to find that she was bound to a chair by ropes of magick hadn’t pleased her in the slightest.
Her little nap had been enough to make the dizziness pass, though.More, the pain in her head was subsiding now, enabling her to think.But she was still a littleoff, her psychic strength having taken a hard hit—hence why her demon hadn’t yet struck at their enemies.
