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Draven gave Logan the side-eye. “What is she talking about?”

“Don’t listen to her. Lilith’s been stalking me. She followed me here when I returned a tablet to Eva.”

“Did you?” Lilith tapped her chin and affected a thoughtful expression. “Because you seemed a little busy with your tongue in her mouth.”

“Liar.” Draven, squared to go one-on-one with Lilith, spun around to Logan with a snarl. “Tell me she’s lying. You can’t be fucking one of the Aegi who killed Shan.”

“Come on, Draven. You’re taking the word of Lilith—”

“They killed the female I love!” Draven shouted, and Lilith’s eyes sparked with life as she realized what was going on here.

“Oh…soyou’rethe one who killed The Aegi today,” she purred. “I can help you, dear boy.”

“Don’t listen to her,” Logan warned his friend. “Don’t do it. Draven! You’ve known me and my family your entire life. You know what she’s done. You’ve heard the stories.”

Draven looked between Logan and Lilith, his tortured gaze softening and hardening depending on who he focused on last.

Lilith’s slender fingers drew down the zipper at her cleavage, revealing plump breasts. Her fingernail scratched across her skin, opening a paper-thin cut from which blood began to well.

“Taste me,” she whispered, “and I’ll make all your dreams and nightmares come true.” Her voice became a drone. “You do for me, and I’ll do for you.”

Draven drifted closer. Logan put himself between them and slammed his hand into his friend’s sternum.

“Draven! Dammit. Shanea wouldn’t want this!”

For a second, a mere gazillionth of a second, Draven hesitated. Deep down, he knew the truth. He knew the female he’d loved would not want this. He knew that the old Draven wouldn’t want this either.

But the vengeance demon inside Dravendidwant it.

And it was stronger than the old Draven.

“Give me what I want, Lilith,” Draven breathed, “and I am all yours.”

Triumph lit Lilith’s face.

Draven struck out, knocking Logan into the dresser as if he was a gnat. Logan recovered, throwing himself at Draven like a linebacker.

But in a blur of motion, Lilith wrapped her slinky body around Draven, shot Logan a seductive wink…and phased out of the room, taking his best friend with her.

Chapter Twenty-One

It only took half an hour and five games for Eva to win the best of seven battles. She’d let the boys win once out of pity.

The outer space game projection faded, leaving her sitting in the soft-floored room instead of inside a triple-engine starfighter. Crux and Mace stared like they’d never seen her before.

She winked. “Gotcha.”

“What. The. Fuck?” Mace shoved out of his chair. “How the hell did you do that?”

“Dude,” Crux said, his broad grin and mussed hair giving him a charmingly boyish look. And wasn’t it weird to think of a demon as boyish? And charming. “That was awesome.”

They filed out of the room and toward the living room, Mace shaking his head. “I did not see that ass-kicking coming.”

“And,” she said cheerily, “now you owe me a favor.”

Mace grumbled as he plopped back down on the sofa. “You cheated.”

“Well…I might have failed to mention that I was the number-one player in the world back in college. Oops.”

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