The Demon You Know 11 by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780312347772
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-05-01T03:06:35+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Abby paused outside the door of Rafael De Santos's office on the second floor of the club and took a deep breath. The taste of crow was becoming a familiar one to her, but she couldn't say she was learning to like it any better for all that.

Since the incident in the park yesterday, she had apologized to Samantha, made her peace with Tess, and even managed to smuggle a note to Missy expressing her regret at getting the Luna in trouble with her mate. All of that had been easy compared to the lion Abby was about to beard.

She rapped briefly on the door and decided the muffled grunt she heard in response would do as well as a command to enter. Her hand closed around the cool metal of the knob and she paused to say a quick prayer for courage-and patience-before she turned it and entered the dimly lit room.

Rafael De Santos had apparently given over to Rule the space in which he normally conducted his business as head of the Council of Others. Instead of the Felix, the demon sat behind the massive walnut desk poring over sheets and sheets of yellowed and brittle paper with a kind of intensity that failed to surprise her in the least. She imagined he focused that kind of intensity on everything he did.

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In fact, she couldn't seem to stop herself from imagining him focusing it on making love...

"Oh, for Pete's sake. That fiend's dirty mind must be rubbing off on me."

"I beg your pardon?"

Abby jerked her gaze up off the floor to meet Rule's across the width of the room. The cold, controlled expression he wore made him look nothing like she remembered from yesterday afternoon, right before she had passed out, or whatever she was supposed to call it when Lou took over her body. Then Rule had looked positively feral.

"Um, hi," she began. He simply stared impassively. "I was just, um, wondering if... you had a minute. To talk to me."

"About?"

"Yesterday."

He dropped his attention back to the papers spread before him. "I do not believe 164

that is something we need to, or should, discuss."

Abby sighed. Not a single one of them was going to make this easy for her, were they? "I don't agree. I think we absolutely need to discuss it. The whole thing demonstrated pretty clearly to me that this situation is even more complicated than I thought it was and that it's not going to end nearly as quickly or as easily as I was hoping."

"Indeed."

He didn't say, "I told you so," but Abby could practically see the phrase floating between them, as if a pixie in a crop duster had broken into the club and written it in the air in plumy exhaust.

"That being the case, I thought..." She rubbed her damp palms against the legs of her jeans. "I wanted to tell you...I'm sorry. For some of the things I said to you yesterday. Not the stuff about wanting to leave, or about finding this whole thing insane, 'cause those are both true.

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