Dan's Inferno, Book II: BeDeviled by Jan Stryvant

Author:Jan Stryvant [Stryvant, Jan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-09-21T16:00:00+00:00

And Then There Were Four

"If I couldn't feel his mind, I'd swear he was dead," Olivia said looking over at Dan passed out on the bed. "I mean, damn, where the hell has he been hiding!"

"He was like ten when we got caught," Wrath grumbled. "So it's not like we would have run across him."

"So when are we going after Lofn?"

"Not until he's healed and recovered."

"Why? Why can't we go now?"

"Well first of all, because if any of us trip her trap, she'll be forced to try to kill us," Wrath explained. "Second, because he's been pretty good at calling the shots, and we all like having him around. But most importantly of all?"

"Yes?"

"You can't get more than eighteen feet, ten inches away from him within the city limits. And you don't drag him, he drags you."

"But how come Fawn can go down to the front desk and the office?"

"It has to do with the way our curses intermingled. We're far enough away that it's six times the limit out here, or basically a little over a hundred feet. That's why we moved the bed over to the other wall—so she has enough range to get there."

"Also the curse being weaker up here means we can get laid," Aella all but purred from where she was cleaning guns.

"How does the curse stop that?"

"It's a curse of ill-fortune, on steroids. This far out, it's got less of an effect, but it still has an effect. But that's why we don't trust him with doing any task unless we have to. Fewer chances for the curse to screw it up."

"Does that explain why he doesn't feel quite human?"

"Partially. When you swear the blood oath because of the curse, your blood mixes with his, and it has an effect on him."

"I thought mixing demon's blood with a human's killed them?"

"Yeah, eventually it's probably going to kill him as well, but…"

"But what?"

"I don't want it to," Wrath said in a soft voice. "We think he's actually part demon, which is why he's not dying from the mixing, but seems to gain from it. But," Wrath shook her head, "the 'experts' we talked to think that's only delaying the inevitable. That eventually he will die from it, and after what happened yesterday…"

"What happened yesterday?"

"Yesterday he was weakening and feeling ill. It'd been four days since he'd done the blood oath, so it does look like there's a limit."

"Then how come he was fine last night?"

"We each had sex with him and made him bite us and take some of our blood."

"But it looks like the effect was only temporary," Aella said. "He was starting to crash when we got back here, but you taking the blood oath brought him back."

Olivia looked over at Dan's sleeping body.

"I'm guessing none of you want him to die, right?"

Wrath and Aella both nodded.

"I think I'd like to get to know him better myself as well. Yeah, he seriously rocked my world last night, and hearing those thoughts of his…" She shook her head.

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