“I hated you! I still hate you!”
“Then call for my death and let the others live.”
She sneered even more as she looked at each of them in turn. “Still siding with the humans?”
“What!” That howl of outrage went through all of them at once.
Caleb laughed. “Look closer, love. There’s not a human among them.”
Her sword went from Caleb to Bubba. “Worse. A Necrodemian.”
When she moved, Caleb lunged at her and disarmed her.
With a feral shriek of outrage, she punched at his throat. Caleb caught her wrist and twisted her arm behind her back. She stomped his foot, then head-butted him.
They moved in to help.
“Stay out of this!” Caleb wiped the blood from his lips and went to grab her again.
Until she punched him in the face.
Nick winced in sympathy. That had to hurt.
It didn’t appear to faze Caleb. His nose bleeding, he ducked her next attack, then swept her feet out from under her.
Before she could recover, Caleb pinned her to the ground.
She bucked against him as he managed to hold her fast. “Let me go!”
“Listen to me!”
“Why? So you can lie?”
“I never lied to you.”
Tears misted in her eyes. “You said you lovedme! It was a lie!”
Shame descended over Caleb’s face. Visibly wincing, he moved his weight from her. “It wasn’t a lie. I meant it.”
She shoved him back. “So you loved me, but married a human? A human!” she repeated. “How could you?”
“I don’t know. It just happened.”
With another ear-splitting scream, she flipped him to his back and held a knife to his throat. “I should kill you for your betrayal.”
“If it eases your pain, do it.”
Nick wanted to protest, but honestly, he felt like a voyeur. This was a personal matter and something Caleb hadnevertalked about.
And here he’d thought Lilliana was the only woman in Caleb’s life. He’d never once considered that Caleb had been with a demon.
Stupid, in retrospect. He should have known Caleb would have been with someone other than his wife. A lot of someones. Demons and otherwise. That made much more sense, really.
As he watched, he fully expected the demon to cut Caleb’s throat.
Instead, she stood up and kicked him in the ribs. “You should have died in the war.”
Rubbing where she’d kicked him, Caleb rolled to his feet. “What are you doing here, Seah?”
