Page 58 of Flirting with Death

I grinned at him around the cookie crumbs. The treat raised my spirits. Maybe there was some magic in them. "Don't worry, I'll share, unlike someone I know."

"Come on, Tris, we have a wolf to placate," Alexander said with a half smile. He tugged our brother away with a wave to the rest of us. "Next time, let's make it less about business and more about family."

When the doors closed behind them, I held the baggy up. "Cookies?"

Lex shook his head with a chuckle as he headed for the bathroom. Raiden and Alastor eyed me but declined. Brook and Lumi also missed out on the best cookies ever.

I shrugged.

"More for me."

Lex rolled Sam slightly as he changed the towel below her. He tossed the bloodied one away and then went back for a washcloth. We watched him work in silence.

"Alastor, get me a shirt from the dresser over there," he said once her skin was clean. There wasn't even a scar where the wound had been. "Raiden, help me get this off of her. Lumi, Brook, Ty, kindly look the other way."

They dressed her like she was a doll, leaving her bra in place out of modesty, even though all of us had seen her in less. It was different when she was unconscious. And I found I had a kink for consent.

"Now we wait." Lex perched on the edge of the bed as Raiden and Alastor straightened.

CHAPTER 33

Samantha

The searing pain from before was gone. And the fact that I could feel warmth at my back told me I probably wasn't dead. The room was dark when I opened my eyes. I recognized Lex's apartment in the shadows, the moon shining bright and large in the sky illuminating the room, telling me we lost at least a day.

I shifted and glanced behind me. Lex was fast asleep, his face relaxed. Bellamy threw his arm over his stomach as he spooned him from behind. He was also deep in dreamland. Lifting my head, I took in the rest of the space. Raiden, Alastor, and Cerberus sprawled out on the couch, while Lumi and Brook inhabited the oversized chair, and Tyler lay in the matching one on the other side of the coffee table, propping his feet up on the wooden surface.

Ty dropped his feet off the smooth surface and leaned forward when our eyes met. "Welcome back to the land of the living."

"Did I die?" I croaked out a dry whisper and slipped out of the bed, crossing the distance between me and my brother. My legs felt a little weak and my head spun a bit, but I ignored both as I perched on the edge of the coffee table in front of him.

"No. Bellamy called his brother," he whispered back. "He healed you."

"Tristan?" I didn't know demons could heal.

"No, the other one, Alex," he replied.

I nodded and glanced at Bellamy, that was the second time he called his brother to help me. I owed them a return favor, that was for sure.

"He really loves you," Ty said. "A demon."

I lifted my eyebrows and smiled. "You doubted it?"

"I had reservations about all of them, but now—" he said, pausing as he cast his gaze around at my guys "—now I can see it. You have something special with them, sis."

"I know."

"Well, now I know too. It is sort of a relief I don't have to do the whole big brother thing with them." He chuckled.

"What happened?" I lowered my voice even more. The last thing I remembered was blacking out at the warehouse.

"One of those demons poisoned you," he said.

"Has anyone gone after the mage since I've been out of it?"

"No, I don't think I could have pried the guys from your side, honestly." He leaned back into the cushions and folded his hands over his stomach. "But Raiden is planning on meeting the mage and taking him out. He broke his end of the deal when you ended up poisoned."

"He will expect that." I picked at my cuticle and crossed my legs at the thought of Rai putting himself in danger like that. "We have to do something he doesn't expect."

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