Pocket Lint is quite pleased with herself as she gallops back to me, and I head into the room he’s given me. It’s late, so I take a shower and then toss Pocket Lint in bed with me.
I close my eyes, but sleep eludes me, as it does most nights.
CHAPTER NINE
ELLISON
I wake in the middle of the night and slowly stretch. The pain is creeping in, so I reach for my meds before remembering that I’d left them on the kitchen table. A part of me debates whether getting up is worth it, but I put on my glasses, then push myself up and head through the door.
As I walk by Asmodeus’s room, I notice the door is cracked open, so I give it a gentle push, knowing if I do too much, he’ll hear me and have a gun pointed at me, claiming I’m an intruder.
Instead, I find his bed empty, other than the ferret curled up on his pillow.
How could he let that disgusting thing on hispillow?
We will obviously need to have a talk about proper hygiene and why animals are not meant to be inside this household. Especially ones like that.
Walking downstairs, I grab the pills, but I don’t see Asmodeus downstairs, either.
I head up to my room and take a pill before sinking into my bed.
Then I send an illusion out to find Asmodeus. Closing my eyes, I put myself into the illusion as it wanders through the house. After checking every room, I head outside and walk around the perimeter.
He wouldn’t have left, would he?
I stand out in the moonlight and look around, but his car is still here. So he either walked off… or is somewhere else.
I look up and see him sitting on the roof, feeling quite confident that I can only see him because he chose to let me. He’s hugging his rifle to himself while I contemplate how he got up there before erasing my illusion and having it reappear on the roof.
“How long did you watch me wander around looking for you?”
“I wasn’t aware it was me you were looking for,” he says.
“You think I wander around in my yard for no reason at all?”
“I do. I mean… it’s rather fun, is it not?”
I raise an eyebrow. “Fun to wander around in the dark? Why aren’t you asleep?”
“The demons fuel my body; I no longer need sleep.”
“I’m going out on a limb and saying that no part of that is true,” I grumble.
Asmodeus grins at me. “I’ve come to a new conclusion.”
“Yeah?”
“There were two people in the woods. One who was following us and the other who attacked you.”
I hesitate before raising an eyebrow. “You really think there were two? Was one invisible or something? Why did none of us notice?”
“I can see people who turn invisible, though. My eyes let me see things that no one else can see.”
“As long as you can’t see through clothes, I’ll just roll with it.”
He looks thoughtful. “If I could… I could see all of your tattoos.”
“You’ve already seen them when Lex burned the clothes off my bodyandat the hospital.”
