A part of him wanted to warn his father that the human realm was extremely different than it’d been the last time he’d ventured out, but experience had taught him to never do such a thing. His father tended to view “advice” as condescension. Andthatnever went well for the person giving it.
Not even his sons.
So Urian bit his tongue and summoned his soldiers for their raid on Cassandra’s apartment. But in the back of his mind was the question of how to safely get her out of there now that his father was going with him. It’d never been easy in the past.
This was going to be a hell of a lot harder.
Yet there was no way he could let her die. Phoebe would never forgive him for it.
Shit. This was about to get ugly.
Urian was stilltrying to come up with a plausible escape plan for Cassandra, but damn it, every one of their people was right on top of him. He couldn’t take a breath that one of them didn’t exhale.
It was ridiculous. He was about to feign a heart attack. If only a Daimon could have one.
Frustrated, he had no choice but to watch as his father knocked on the front door of Cassandra’s apartment and pretended to be a deliveryman.
Using his powers, he listened carefully to see if Kat was in there with her.
“Kat?” He heard Cassandra calling.
No one answered.
“Kat?” she tried again.
His father knocked again, more demanding this time.
Urian heard the sounds of rushing feet, as if his sister-in-law were searching the rooms for something. He could taste her fear as she headed to the back of the apartment.
His father vanished, no doubt intending to meet her there.
Cassandra stopped moving. “Kat, is that you?”
“Yeah, let me in.”
Urian flinched as he realized that wasn’t Katra’s voice, but his father pretending to be her. Crap! He’d heard the kori speaking enough to recognize the difference in cadence.
He’s going to kill her …
Cassandra laughed nervously as she opened the door and Urian flashed himself to the back to run interference, and hopefully save her life.
Sadly, he misjudged the distance and ended up landinginsideher apartment, a few feet behind her.Good going, dumbass.
Lucky for him, she was too mesmerized by his father to notice that she had company inside her home, and his father was too busy taunting her to care that he’d screwed up. That was bad enough. Worse? Another Daimon popped in beside him.
Seriously? He couldn’t catch a break tonight with them. Leave it to him to get stuck with an overachiever.
“Did you miss me, princess?” his father taunted from outside her back door in a voice identical to Kat’s.
Cassandra stood there, gaping. “What are you, the friggin’ Terminator?”
His father smirked. “No. I’m the Harbinger who is merely preparing the way for the Destroyer.” He reached for her.
Cassandra stepped back and almostintoUrian, who also had to take a step away from her to keep from being a rude awakening that she had an uninvited guest—courtesy of a loophole she didn’t realize about apartment buildings. He also had to shove his companion out of her way.
Still unaware of them, she pulled out a dagger from her waist and sliced his father’s arm.
His eyes turning red, his father hissed.
