“Two,” she bit back, glaring at him. “As far as I know, you know nothing about safety issues. Go back to your office tasks and let me deal withmywork.”
He left the office right after her, rolling his eyes as he walked over the threshold.
Ann and Kai exchanged a knowing look before chuckling and standing up to leave.
“He’s either going to have the best angry sex of his life tonight, or not get any for a few weeks,” Ann said.
“Probably the latter,” Kai added. “Carrie ispissed.”
His mate swatted at his arm. “You said you’d stop snooping into people’s minds.”
“It’s not my fault! She had zero control over her anger, it was like I was in this fight with them.”
“Kai…”
“He wants them to be official and she doesn’t,” the demon couldn’t help himself from explaining. “Did you know they’ve been seeing each other foryears? But he wants kids, and she doesn’t.”
Ann stopped, and gaped at him. “Really?”
Kai nodded. “Yeah…She doesn’t want any.”
“Everyone know that angels and demons can’t—”
“Theycan,” Kai interrupted his mate. “Look at Arc. He exists. So it can happen.”
She shook her head. “Arc is, as much as I adore him, afluke. It almost never happened again. And when itdid, it resulted in a stillborn or a simple Nephilim.”
Kai’s eyes glinted with malice. “So itcanhappen. But Carrieis—”
They didn’t even reach the door when it burst open, an unmasked, wide-eyed Marcus standing under the frame and nearly tripping over his own too-fast steps.
“Dimitri is here,” he panted.
The room stilled, all amusement gone from Kai’s face.
“You thought you could keep me in a cage? Keep me locked up for you to torment?”his voice repeated in my mind.
He had escaped.
“Without Arc?” Kai asked, confused.
Marcus shook his head, his face grim.
Another long pause. The only sound filling the room was Marcus’ heavy breathing. Dimitri hadescaped. The crashing sounds, the screams…He had escaped on his own and might have destroyed anything and anyone in his path, including Arc and Nomin. Not that I could blame him, I would have gone insane in his situation, and going after my jailers would have been my first move.
“Go get—”
“Lola is already on her way there, if she didn’t reach him already,” he interrupted me. “I ran into her on my way here.”
How? Did she feel him? Was their bondthatstrong? Could I dare to hope we’d be this fusional someday?
Get a fucking grip, I cursed myself. Now was not the time to ponder things like this.
“He’ll need medical assistance,” Marcus continued.
“He’s a Nephilim,” Ann said, shaking her head in disbelief. “They might be Earthwalkers, but they're pretty much invincible.”
“He’s badly hurt, Ann. And I have no idea if all the blood covering him is his, but it’s mostly red.”
