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“Yeah,” Ren snarled. “And she doesn’t leave my side.”
Rune dipped his head, his face close to my neck, and he breathed in deep, then made a rough sound. Ren jerked me back with a growl. Rune grinned, flashing a set of fangs very much like a vampire, even though that wasn’t what he was. “I don’t smell you, fox.” He looked down at me. “You smell like innocence and fear. An intoxicating combination.”
My face went up in flames, humiliation filling me. My gaze darted to Ren and back up to Rune. “I don’t care who you are, you don’t get to scent me. Ever. Understand?”
“Jasmine,” Ren said low, tightening his hold on me.
Rune grinned wider, a long, vibrating rumble rolling from his chest. “Oh, lovely, yes. I like you very much.”
“The feeling is not mutual. I find you kind of sleazy, actually,” I bit out, letting my humiliation run my mouth, then slammed it shut. Fuck.
“You’re brave as well, little witch,” he said. “Thankfully, for you, I like that as well.”
“How about you take a fucking step back,” Ren snarled.
Rune looked up. “You’re starting to annoy me, fox.”
I needed to get it together and this meeting back on track before Ren started a fight. “Chaos brokered this meeting for a reason. Can we stop all this…weirdness, and get down to it?”
Rune chuckled. “Yeah, lovely, let’s get down to business.”
Ren growled again.
The massive demon stepped away from me. “It’s your lucky day,” he said to Ren. “As delicious as she smells, I don’t fuck with virgins.”
Oh my goddess. NO. He did not just out me like that. My humiliation flamed higher as I followed him into what was obviously his apartment.
I didn’t look at Ren as I took in my surroundings. Rune had made the top floor into one huge studio space. There were lots of windows, and it felt very different from the rest of the building.
“It used to be a rooftop garden. They walled it in sometime in the 1950s,” Rune said as if he could read my mind. “So, lovely, little Jasmine, what is it you want from me?”
“Access to your library.”
His brow arched. “Why?”
“Death is missing souls.”
“And I should care, why?”
“He isn’t the only one. Lucifer’s missing some as well. Ask him if you don’t believe me.”
Rune studied me for several long seconds. “And you think you can find them?”
“I have to, my sister’s depending on it.”
He straightened. “All right, lovely, you want access, I’ll give you access.”
Relief flooded me. “Thank you—”
“But you have to do something for me in return.”
Ren grabbed my hand again. “She’s not doing a damned thing for you.”
“Yes, she is. Or she’ll leave here empty-handed.”
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