To Win a Demon's Love by Nadine Mutas

Author:Nadine Mutas [Mutas, Nadine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nadine Mutas

Chapter 14

“I really don’t know nothing about it!”

Lily watched the alp struggle against Alek’s hold. He held the tiny nightmare-inducing demon pressed to the wall of the tunnel, one of many that apparently ran underneath Portland, used to travel hidden from witch eyes. To say she’d been surprised when Alek led her down into the vast system of underground passageways was an understatement. All this time, she and her family and friends had patrolled the city for demons, and they’d been right under their feet.

As a requirement for taking her along, Alek had made her vow to keep the passageways a secret from the other witches—a binding oath of power. As much as it grated on her to be unable to tell her mom or Merle about these tunnels, she understood why Alek insisted on her silence. Many of his friends or family were demon, and, given the current climate among witches, if knowledge like this leaked to Juneau and her followers, it could be used to devastating effect against all demons—whether they were evil or not.

“Let’s try this again,” Alek said, and brought the lemon he was holding in his other hand closer to the alp’s face. “I’ve got a few more of these in that bag over there, and unless you want me to shove them all into your mouth, you’re going to talk.”

The alp’s black eyes widened in panic, and it whimpered. “Please, no, not the lemons! Anything but the lemons!”

Lily couldn’t help snorting a laugh. She’d known alps didn’t like the citrus fruit, but she had no idea they were actually terrified. Apparently, as Alek had explained, when you shoved a lemon in their mouths, they went limp and paralyzed. And spraying a little bit of lemon juice on their skin prevented the little demon creatures from changing shape. If Alek hadn’t squirted some of the lemon juice on the alp, it would have already shifted from its standard form of a dwarf-like humanoid being—an ugly-ass one, if she were honest—to a moth or a snake.

Alek wiggled the citrus fruit suggestively. “Talk.”

“All right, all right,” the alp sputtered. “I seen him, okay?”

“Where?”

“Over in the harbor quarter. Where the ships dock. He supposed to live there, in one of them empty containers.”

Alek glanced at her, then back at the alp. He let the little demon go, but raised the lemon in warning. “Good. Now, if I find out you told me shit, I’ll be back with a whole tub full of lemon juice and dunk you in it.”

The alp shuddered and scurried away.

“Well,” she said, fighting a grin at Alek’s unique interrogation method, “let’s hit the harbor.”

It had taken some careful asking around among Alek’s contacts—he’d been careful to be specific enough to get good answers but not enough to arouse suspicion—until they found someone who knew someone who might have more information about a certain duhokrad they were looking for. Even after Lily remembered more details about the guy, like he had short, dark hair and a scar over his left eye, it was like finding a needle in a haystack.

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