“What the fuck?” she whisper yells. “You are just letting them go so they can kidnap Zee?”
I cock a brow and look down at her. “We have hours before that’s due to take place. Think with your head, not your heart. If we kill the two gossiping demons, then we disrupt their plan—the one we already know about. They get chaotic and do stupid things.” I wrap my hand in hers and peek out the curtains before dragging her out and back towards our room.
“You’re an asshole. You could have just said that in my mind, and not used your hand to force me not to speak.”
I glance at her as we trot up the stairs. “Noted. Next time I’ll use a gag.”
“What’s that about a gag?” Jed asks, jogging up behind us. He leans into Natia while waggling his eyebrows. “Has my brother been corrupting you? He’s got a dominant side that scares the ladies.”
I smirk. “She can handle it.”
She rolls her eyes as we swing open the door and walk into utter chaos.
“That’s what I was coming to tell you,” Jed says, moving around us to stare at the scene.
Zac is pinning a terrified blonde to the dining table by her throat as the others shout encouragement to tear her head from her shoulders. I tilt my head to find an uncanny Natia lookalike staring at me. The color of her eyes are identical, but the fire in them is missing. I glance at Natia. “You have a twin we aren’t aware of?” I wonder.
“I’m Natia,” the clueless demon declares.
Natia cringes. “Do I sound that whiny?”
“No,” we all chime in, apart from Zac.
“Yes,” he grumbles.
“How did you know it’s not me?” Natia asks.
Zac glares at me as Jed laughs. “It tried to kiss him,” Jed informs us.
Natia pushes her lips together. “Why would it do that?”
Duncan swings his hand out, a set of tiny wires dangling from his fist. “It was trying to bug the room when Zac walked in. It tried to distract him.”
“Why?” Natia asks.
The demon slumps on the table, the fight leaving her limbs as she glares at Natia. “Zeus wants to know what your plans are,” her eyes dart to Zee, “and when he will be alone.”
Zee hammers his fist on the table, making her jump. “What!”
“It’s fine, Zee, we know why,” I say.
He turns stone cold eyes on the demon. “Then we don’t need it alive.”
Natia reaches forward. “Wait.”
Zac and Zee blink at her like she’s gone mad. “For what?” Zac grinds out as his fist tightens around the demon’s throat.
“Are you meant to report back to Zeus once you’ve planted the bugs?”
The demon squeezes her eyes closed and shakes her head. “No,” she croaks out.
Natia’s lips twist to the side. “We can use this.”
“How?” Zee growls.
Nathan smirks from his relaxed position on the sofa next to Marsha. “Good thinking, Natia. Strategic, clever, everything I know you are.”
Natia winks at him, then turns to Lucifer. “Lulu, can you put her somewhere safe—in case she’s lying?”
