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Oh my God. Her clit was now pounding as the sexy predator before her angled his head in contemplation. “She does seem to need persuasion, doesn’t she AL?”

“AL?” AL repeated.

“I’m not giving her your real name until it’s Zero-Sum time.”

AL gave a low laugh she didnotrecognize. Mercy, what was going on? “Soundspuuuurrrrrfect for our Me-nou.”

“What do you think?” he asked, moving his thumb slowly over her lower lip with a testing glide that brought a quake to her body.

She remembered what AL had said about his name in the Dungeon. “Whatever… Terabyte wants.”

He went from Ethan to this other person in the blink of an eye, taking her mouth in a brutal kiss as one hand gripped her throat and the other bit in her hair, lifting her ‘til only the tips of her toes touched the floor. The rush of fear and ecstasy filled her blood as he feasted on her mouth with eager, calculated sucks and bites while this non-AL voice whispered hotly, “Mmmm, that’s it, Terabyte… Give our dirty girl a taste ofallthat we owe her.”

Oh, dear God, what did she climb herself into?

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Kult made it to the meeting room with his bundle of Garbagio tucked in his arm. “Sorry, Garbagio had a last-minute shit bomb and it fell on me to change it. If you smell anything foul, deal with it. He looked around at all the strained faces. “Looks like you’re having your own shit party in here. Where’s Kaphas and Handy? And Quantum?”

“In fucking restraints,” Harlow announced.

“What the fuck?”

“The demons.”

Kult’s gaze cut to Atlas. “Fullsentences magic memory.”

“Quantum didn’t just suffer a mini meltdown,” Harlow said. “Whatever has a hold of Kaphas and Handy hitched a ride when they synced up.”

“How the hell’d you figure that?”

“After finally subduing him, I ran tests. Some of those results had nothing to do with what amounts to a cyber-stroke.”

“How do you know?”

Harlow’s eyes popped. “Because a cyber-stroke doesn’t cause you to try and kill your brother when he refers to your wife by her name rather than ‘his wife’.”

Kult stared at him. Fucking great. “Which brother did he attack?”

“Me!” Harlow hurled at him.

“And Kaphas and Handy?”

More wide eyes. “Oh, they wanted to help but they were too busy fighting whatever the fuck still has a hold of them. Clearly whatever has them is buddies with what has Quantum.”

“They’re symbiotic.”

Harlow nodded and aimed a hand at Fetch. “Heknows because he’s got connections to Kaphas and Quantum.”

“So, they’re both locked up?”

“Fornow,” Harlow said. “Until those demons override Kaphas and Handy’s power and use it to escape.”

Kult bounced and paced with a suddenly fussy Garbagio. “So, they’re fighting it.”

“Yes,” Harlow said, collapsing into a chair next to the table.

“What’s the plan?”

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