Page 15 of Savage Hunt

“Whoa, that is some look he’s giving you.” Maddie studied us as she nibbled her lip. “I could cut the sexual tension with a freaking spoon. Do you two know each other?”

I let out a shaky breath as Fane’s phantom touch continued to tour my body. “We’ve met.”

A CO finally removed the demon shifter’s muzzle and unhooked the rest of the chains, allowing Fane to move through the line. As his invisible touch disappeared, I returned to my tray.

Sweat clung to my heated skin from that exchange. A dark voice in my head continued to tell me to go to him, fuck the consequences. One real touch would be worth it.

“How do you know him?” Maddie rested her chin in her hand as she scrutinized me with an excited gleam in her brown eyes. “And how well do you know him? There are some serious sexual vibes sparking between you two for it to be something casual.”

There had never been anything casual between Fane and me, not even when we were trying to kill each other.

“I met him at a club in Savannah.” Fane had stolen all my attention even as I’d danced with Hawk.

“Before or after you were bitten and turned into a wolf shifter?” Maddie glanced between Fane and me again as suspicion spiraled around her words.

I tried to roll the tension from my shoulders. “Before.”

“Is he the one that?—”

A howl echoed through the cafeteria, and a commotion erupted on the far right as a fight broke out among shifters and vampires. Guards sprinted in their direction to break it up.

Maddie groaned. “Why can’t they just get along? It’s so cliché.”

The wolf shifter who stopped the fight in the cages snarled at a large male vampire with searing scarlet irises. Knox’s teeth elongated, and claws protruded from the tips of his fingers.

My eyebrows lifted to my hairline. Were shifters able to access part of their animal side? Was the same true for demons? Dux demons already had their sharp teeth and claws out, but high demons like Sorin could transform into something more lethal with talons and terrifying chompers.

Maybe that was why they’d put a muzzle on Fane.

As the guards’ focus remained on the growing melee in the corner, my nape prickled. The atmosphere in the room changed as a group of dux demons approached our table from the left while three huge dark fae came on the right.

Maddie cursed. “We’ve got company.”

“I see them.” I clenched my fists and readied for a fight. My muscles were sore, my body ached, and I just wanted to take a fucking nap, but relaxing wasn’t a luxury in Heldrok. “You think this is because I rejected Sorin?”

“Most definitely.”

I grimaced. “You should stay far away from me, Maddie. Trouble follows me.”

She shrugged and surveyed the approaching threats. “I’m a raven in a prison full of nightworlders. No matter how much I try to lay low, a target has been branded on me from the beginning.”

Still, my presence at her table had shined a spotlight on both of us.

A female dux demon lunged for me, and I ducked out of the way at the last second, swinging my tray in her face. Black blood spewed from her broken nose.

“Did you really think you could get the jump on me that easily?” As a presence formed behind me, I slammed my elbow into a solid mass and pivoted, smashing my fist into the fae’s chin.

He staggered back, his mouth parting at my unexpected strength.

Maddie grunted as a dux demon grabbed her from behind and tried to shove her to the ground. She stooped and used his bodyweight to flip him onto the tabletop. Her fist crushed into his mouth, spurting black blood.

“Nice moves.” I dodged an elbow from a fae and swept his feet out from under him, so he toppled to the ground.

The raven shrugged, tossing her ebony locks. “You can learn a lot being surrounded by enemies.”

Nightworlders didn’t hate us this much in Savannah. Then again, these nightworlders were in an Underworld prison, so most of them moved in some of the darker circles.

Maddie cursed. “Behind you!”

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