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She harrumphed, and it was so damn adorable I wanted to kiss her. Something warned me that was not the right play if I wanted my dick to remain attached to my body.
“I don’t know why you’re so wound up. I told you I’d be fine.”
Her jaw dropped. “You don’t know why? You don’t know why?” she repeated, her voice rising in pitch. “I thought you were dead, numb nuts. Do you have any idea what that did to me? You promised you’d be okay,” she added, her lower lip quivering as fresh tears misted her eyes.
“Hey, I’m right here. I’m fine.” I pulled her across my lap and rocked my hips up into her. “See? Better than ever, actually.”
Her gaze dropped from mine as she scooted backward so she was sitting on my lap rather than lining us up for round two. Damn.
“How can I trust anything you say? I watched you lie there, no pulse, no breath. You didn’t even warn me that would happen.”
I held up a finger. “To be fair, I didn’t know it could happen. I’d never had my battery charged like that before.”
Her brows scrunched together. “What the hell are you talking about?”
“You blew my circuit, baby.” I could tell she still wasn’t following. “What happened with your human is not what happened to me. With him, you lost control and drained him dry. Fair enough, it happens. With me, the energy your climax sent through me was so strong you basically overcharged my circuit, so my body shut down to protect itself. Like a fuse, or umm . . . what’s it called? Surge thingy.”
“Surge protector.”
“Yeah, that. Malice makes me use them.”
A wrinkle formed between her eyebrows. “Malice passed out on me too, but he wasn’t... charged.”
“Malice is still weakened from the spell.”
“What spell?”
Whoops. “Uh, never mind. Long story.”
She crossed her arms. “I’ve got time.”
“Will you settle for the CliffsNotes?”
Her eyes narrowed with suspicion, but she nodded.
“Some bitch thought it would be cute to kidnap and drain us. It wasn’t.”
“How the hell do you kidnap the horsemen?” Merri held up a hand and shook her head. “You know what? It doesn’t matter. I’m a lot more worried about the other part.”
I raised my brows, waiting for her to elaborate.
“So you’ve all been drained? You’re all weaker than you should be, but Lilith thought it was still a good idea to leave me with you?”
Ugh. There was still so much I couldn’t tell her, but I had to give her something. “Yes.”
“Why would she do that?”
“Because we’re still the best option. We may have been weakened, but even weak, the four fucking horsemen are like showing up to a gunfight with a bazooka.”
Not even a hint of a lip twitch.
“Merri, we're immortal. We cannot die. We always regenerate or whatever. Like the Terminator. You know, ‘I’ll be back.’ Wait, no, he didn’t regen. Um...” I shrugged, clearly not doing a very good job explaining despite my awesome impersonation.
Merri opened her mouth to say something when it came to me.
“Like the Doctor!” I said with a snap of my fingers.
“What doctor?”
