I feel my cheeks grow warm. “Oh, God. We just met a few hours ago, and we’re already gettin’ into sex talk?”
She lifts a shoulder and picks at the shirt she’s wearin’. “Why not? We’re sisters and shit. Might as well dive right in. I always wanted a sister.”
“Me too,” I say honestly. “And no, I didn’t have any hot demon sex. Though not for lack of wantin’ or tryin’,” I mumble.
Delta’s eyes glint with excitement, and she sits up straighter. “Really?”
“I wore aleatherskirt,” I tell her, as if that’s proof enough.
An impressed whistle comes out from between her lips. “Nice.” She gets it. “And they didn’t pounce on you yet?”
“Not yet,” I shake my head. “Even after I threw myself at them after I scythed-out and had my demonicitch,” I say with embarrassment.
“Oh, I just learned about that. How was it? Was it bad?” Delta asks with excitement.
I smile a little. I thought Delta was all-knowin’ when it came to this demon stuff with the way Alder and Flint talked about her, but she’s almost as new to this as I am. In a way, it’s nice, because she knows exactly what I’m goin’ through.
“No, not bad...just the horniest I’ve ever felt before. Probably would’ve been epic sex if Flint and Alder were more demonish and less gentlemanly,” I grumble.
Delta laughs. “Don’t worry, it’s just a matter of time. I saw how those two looked at you.”
“How did they look at me?” I fish, curious for an outsider’s perspective.
“They look like they’d rip this realm in half if you needed them to, and like they wanted to eat you up.”
Please, Lord yes.
“Well, I—”
BOOM!
A noise rocks the house so loud that I swear, I feel the foundation shake.
Delta and I are on our feet in an instant, just to land on our asses the next when a second roar bursts through the air, makin’ the whole damn house rattle.
Delta trips over the coffee table, her body flippin’ back and landin’ hard on the floor. I manage to barely catch myself on the edge of the couch. My wide, scared eyes swing around, notin’ that the last of the sunlight looked like it just got sucked right out of the sky. The sound of somethin’ peltin’ against the window panes starts up, so forceful that I worry the glass is a second away from shatterin’.
“Delta!”
I call to her where she’s still on the floor, sportin’ a wicked gash on her shin. But it’s not the cut that worries me. It’s the wild look in her eyes.
“It’s a storm,” she whimpers before clampin’ her hands over her ears and squeezin’ her eyes shut tight.
It doesn’t sound like any storm I’ve ever heard before.
“Delta!” I say again, but she doesn’t answer me. She just stays curled up on the floor, mutterin’ somethin’ to herself. When another loud boom goes off, I race to the window and yank open the curtain to look out, and the blood drains from my face.
Outside on the street, there’s a line of six demons—I know this, because they’redefinitelynot human. Every single one of them has camouflage skin and their hands raised in the air, and sickly yellowish-gray clouds seem to be blowin’ out of their palms like pollution that’s gatherin’ above us in the sky. Some kind of hail is pourin’ down from the bilious clouds, but it’s more like fire and brimstone with the way the air is filled with the scent of sulfur.
“Delta...” My throat tightens and fear pulses through my body.
I catch some of the neighbors outside on their porches, lookin’ up to see what the hell is goin’ on. Someone in a car drivin’ by nearly crashes, as some of the bigger hail pelts into the windshield and dents the metal roof. But it’s clear by the way everyone eyes the sky with a bewildered look on their faces that they can’t see the demons on the street and that this all looks like some freak weather storm.
“Delta,” I repeat again. “We need to go.”
As one, all six demons drop their heads and look at me through the window, their eyes emotionless and cold. And then they start movin’ toward the house.
“Shit,” I curse before I slam the curtains shut and whirl around. In one leap, I grab our scythes from the umbrella holder and race over to my sister. “Delta, we need to go! Now!” I shout, my voice barely loud enough over the deafenin’ noises outside.
