Page 7 of Demon Stalked
“Jason!” Raz whistles piercingly, and a moment later, a mop of blond hair enters the room as he runs on his hands and feet, his ass in the air and wiggling.
“Did my humans call me? Did they? Did they? Did they? Human!” He begins to lick Raz’s hand enthusiastically, much to the other demon’s horror, before he races towards me, practically tackling me to the ground. “Other human!”
“Hey, buddy,” I say as I begin to scratch him behind his ear. His leg twitches as a rumbling noise erupts from his chest. His eyelids flutter shut…before they abruptly open and fixate on my three-year-old Dalmatian, Spotty.
“What is this?” Jason’s tongue lolls out of his mouth and hangs to the side. “Friends? Eat brains?”
“No!” I say immediately, whacking him on the nose. “No brains.”
“But—”
“No brains.”
Jason pouts but crawls forward anyways to sniff the Dalmatian’s butt.
“These will be your brothers and sisters!” I spread my arms wide to encompass all of the animals loitering about. “You will be the fiercest pack of animals that ever walked this earth!”
“Brothers? Sisters?” Jason’s butt begins to wiggle once more. With a happy yip, he jumps three feet in the air before landing on the gorgeous golden retriever. The two of them begin to play wrestle, and I just barely rein in my desire to give Raz a pointed look.
Oh, what the hell. I’m totally going to give him one anyways.
“Told you so!” I sing as his eyes narrow into thin slits. “They’re total besties.”
“I’m not going to allow you to do this,” he huffs, folding his arms over his chest.
The smile fades from my face as abruptly as it had appeared. Anger thrums through me like I’m an electric guitar and some unknown person is plucking each individual string. I can feel the vibrations low in my stomach.
“You don’t get to tell me shit about what I can and can’t do,” I bite out through gritted teeth. “Katrina left because ofyou. And I’m going to fucking win her back, no matter what it costs me.”
A gorgeous white kitten begins to knead my leg, and I run my hand down her soft fur. With her pink bow, she looks fucking adorable right now. Hmmm…
Maybe Raz is right.
Maybe I don’t need to give Katrinaallof the animals, only one.
I hold the white kitten up to my face as she begins to pepper my skin with tiny kisses.
“You’re right.” Raz’s soft voice pulls me back to the present, and I turn to find him now sitting in the armchair of the living room, two cats nestled in his lap. “I fucked up, but she deserved to know the truth.”
“She loves us,” I point out as I contemplate the survival rate of the kitten if I shoved her in a wrapped box. Probably not the best idea, dammit.
“She does,” he agrees with a heavy sigh. “And we love her. So now we just have to show her that a relationship can work.” He pauses, turning to stare at the dog curled around his feet. “What the fuck are we going to do with all of these animals?”
My smile is as sharp as a shark’s, and just as deadly too—scenting blood in the water and preparing to bite down. “If you get rid of my pets, I’ll remove your fucking head,” I say sweetly.
“We can’t take care of thirteen fucking animals,” Raz growls. “We barely take care of Jason who’s—for fuck’s sake!” He sneers at the zombie boy, who currently has his wiener in his hand as he pees on the decorative plant.
“We’re keeping them all,” I warn in a dark, deadly voice. “Except for this cutie.” I rub my nose against the white kitten’s, who purrs back at me. “This one is going to Katrina…and will hopefully help me win her back.”
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Choosingto gift Katrina a live kitten instead of one that suffocated in a closed box, I hold the fluff ball to my chest as I pound on her hotel room door. I received a few evil looks when I entered the hotel with the pet, and a ballsy manager even tried to talk to me. But one look into my eyes had him scurrying away like his ass was on fire.
Well…
That could also be because I literally set his ass on fire. Pain demon perk.
“Adam, don’t just—” Katrina’s sweet voice wafts to me as I stand at attention, the kitten curled up under my chin. I give her tiny head a kiss as she meows softly.
