“Again, same information, but based on past experience, I can practically guarantee that it won’t be good.”
Lovely.
“We should probably tell the captain?”
Xuri frowned. “About our having sex? I should think he wouldn’t care.”
Valynda groaned at his off-beat sense of humor. Popping his arm, she growled at him. “That shadow stain dancing about his boat, you daft loon.”
“Ah, that. Aye. You’re right. He’d most likely want to know about the demon, as opposed to me getting handsy with his crewmate.” Nibo led the way toward the ladder.
Adarian growled at the trollop on his crotch as she started to pull away the instant the demon appeared in his room. “Keep about your business if you want to be paid!”
And if she wanted to live.
Grabbing her hair, he held her in place and shifted his hips slightly as she returned her lips to his cock.
Then he slid his gaze to the demon. “What?” he snapped.
“As you feared, my lord, she has betrayed you.”
He arched a brow at that. “What?”
The demon’s glowing eyes turned deep black. “Valynda. She is back with Nibo and someone made her human again.”
Adarian grew still at those words as he realized what the demon was saying.
Damn it. He needed that staff and the power it held.
Furious, he shoved the prostitute away, then fastened his pants. “Summon the others.”
If Valynda had turned on them, then he would sink that ship and reunite Bane with his first wife at the bottom of the ocean.
It was time for the Deadmen to earn their name and become so dead that not even Thorn could reanimate them.
“Ah, bloody hell and all their handmaidens and hairbows!” Will took a deep breath, then, louder, shouted to the crew. “Avast! Demon to port bow!”
“Demonssss,” Bart corrected with an exaggeratedsto make sure the crew understood they were under siege from a large group of those beasts headed straight for them.
“And they don’t look happy to see us.”
Bart snorted at Jake’s additional comment. “Beg to differ, mate. They look deliriously happy to see us.”
“And hungry,” Will added. “They look exceedingly hungry.”
“Would that make us seafood, then?”
Will scoffed at Bart. “Seriously, mate? You had to go there?”
“It’s that or piss me britches. Which would you rather?”
Will moved away from him and put Jake next to him. Just in case he was voicing a prediction about his bladder. Then took an additional three steps more. “That should do. Anyone seen Sallie? Uncork your bottle, man! We need your better half to come kick demon arse! Armor up!”
Valynda ignored them as she saw what was coming. “Xuri!” she called, grabbing a sword. They could definitely use his crook and reinforcements.
She felt the air behind her stir. But as she turned toward it, her smile faded.
That wasn’t Nibo.
