“Would you like to see your options?” Micitian asked dramatically.
“Sure.” Theo just wanted to get back to his mates. This wasn’t fun to him.
Instead of opening the door like Theo expected, Micitian shoved a cover to a small slit over.
“Go ahead! Look!” Micitian encouraged.
Shuffling forward, Theo had to rise to his tiptoes to reach the slit. He peered inside and gasped, falling back on the flat of his feet. The summoner from the fae realm, Bywater, was tied to a pole with a gag in his mouth. “What?”
“I captured him for you,” Micitian said, pleased with himself. “After I had him use his powers to summon you to me, of course.”
“How?” Theo demanded. They had been working so hard to protect against summoning.
“I gave him a little power boost and this.” Micitian pulled out a tissue with a small amount of blood.
Theo didn’t understand. “Is that—”
“Your blood,” Micitian said. “You really should be more careful where you leave things lying around. This was like a gift just sitting in the trash.”
“You stole my bloody tissue from a paper cut and kidnapped the summoner?”
Micitian laughed. “That’s a great present, am I right?”
No! Theo didn’t want to be summoned and he didn’t want to ever see Bywater again! This was his worst nightmare.
“You don’t seem pleased.” Micitian looked disappointed.
“Why would you do that!” Theo pointed toward the door. “That’s awful!”
Micitian frowned. “I thought it would be a nice present to welcome you to the family.”
“It’s not!” Theo shouted.
“Oh! I did not expect that reaction.” He opened the door and waved toward Bywater. “You don’t want your revenge?”
“Revenge? No! I want to be left alone. I don’t want to have to worry about being summoned ever again!” He couldn’t help that his voice rose.
“Fine.” Micitian lifted his hand toward Bywater and snapped his wrist around.
The sound was horrible and Theo covered his ears at the sharp snap of bone but he couldn’t tear his gaze away from the weird angle of Bywater’s neck.
“There. That’s taken care of.” Micitian said. “No more summoning.”
Theo gagged. He had to whirl around to keep from throwing up.
“You said you never wanted to be summoned again,” Micitian reminded him. “Now that has been taken care of. All safe. You’re welcome.”
Theo backed away from the demon. “You…you can’t just…”
“Now this was the reaction that I expected from you when I first had you summoned. Where was this?”
The magic inside him began to boil up. Theo knew that he would be no match for such a powerful creature but this was crazy.
“I almost don’t want to show you your other present. You don’t seem to appreciate all the trouble that I went to for you.” Micitian pouted. The demon god actually freaking pouted at him.
It was official. Theo was in hell. Okay, he knew he was in hell but this was like his hell.
Micitian laughed. “I’ll show you anyway.”
