Page 66 of I Accidentally Summoned a Demon Boyfriend

St. John’s Hospital. I had to go find the friend.

The hospital was busy, but it was easy enough to find her friend. The smell of demon blood was still on her. When I arrived, there were doctors in her room, giving reports of fractures and other injuries that would take months to heal. She was lucky to be alive.

I waited for them to leave before slipping into the room and closing the door behind me.

“Who are you?” Keri tensed in the bed.

“My name is Metice, I am-”

“The demon,” Keri finished my thought. “Well, I’ll be damned. You are real.”

“You know about me?”

“Yes, Rayna told me everything about you and your world.” She winced from the pain as she adjusted in the small bed. “Why are you here?”

“You don’t find anything about my presence alarming?” I thought it would take much more time to convince her of my existence, but she seemed unusually accepting.

“After what I saw, hell, you’re like a bunny rabbit.” She scoffed. “Those damn things that got us, they were terrifying. You can at least pass for human.”

“Where is she?” I asked. “Where’s Rayna? The officer said your friend was missing.”

“Are you going to take care of her?” She looked me in the eye like it was a challenge, the quiet beeps from the machine behind her bed like a timer counting down to her explosion.

“Of course I am.” I nodded. “Tell me where she is so I can take care of her.”

“No, I mean really take care of her.” Keri’s voice was strained with emotions I couldn’t comprehend. “Don’t play with her heart. I know my friend. That girl will find the smallest detail to toss a man to the side. Do you know she once stopped dating a man because he said she had birthing hips? Petty, right? So for her to be holding on to you so tightly now, it means something.”

“I’m not sure what to say to that.” That was the truth. “I will protect her and care for her the best I can. I promise you that.”

“She’s in this, you know that, right? She isn’t going back to her normal life.” Keri held my gaze. “Your world belongs to her. You’re smart enough to know even if you break the bond, she will never be safe. She will never be free of what knowing you has uncovered in her life.”

“Is this really the time?” Her words felt like echoes of Likosa’s, and once again, I felt like I would choke on the implication. Rayna couldn’t walk away from any of this, no matter how much I thought it was the best choice for her.

“Considering time moves a lot slower where you’re from, I think you can take a couple minutes to listen to me here,” Keri challenged.

“She really told you everything, didn’t she?”

“She told me enough.” She glanced down, and her eyes lingered on my crotch before she lifted her slow gaze and winked at me.

“Really?” I turned away. Human women were worse than the demon ones. “I need to know where she is.”

“Take care of my friend, or I will find a way to come to hell and deal with you,” she warned me.

“You human women are insane.” I laughed.

“We sure are. The men made us that way.” Keri relaxed finally.

“Where is she?” I asked. “I can’t help her from here, and I know she’s in trouble.”

“Two big ass demon things, yellow and blue monsters, they chased us down.” Her voice softened as the rising emotions choked her. “I killed one, but it wasn’t enough. They knocked me out, and when I woke up, she was gone.”

“Dammit, Olian.” I cursed the name of the one who owned the trackers, demon dogs with a hellish tech upgrade. When they activated, they became large and terrifying beasts who would do anything their owner commanded. Any other time, they looked like an average mutt.

“Your ex?” Keri asked.

“Yes. Those are her pets. They’re trackers. They would have taken Rayna back to her.”

“That bitch better not hurt my friend over your dumbass,” Keri cursed.

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