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put it back or I’ll rend you limb from limb and use the pieces to bait ghouls.” His grin made Seth cringe. “And I hear they like to play with their food.” He made a slow pumping motion with his hips.
    Red’s eyes went from wide and terrified to narrow and pissed-off between heartbeats. Seth didn’t know whether to admire the hell out of her or ask where she’d like her personal belongings sent when she stepped right into the nephilim and bumped her chest to his torso.
    “Screw you, you wingless wonder. If twerking while baiting ghouls is your shtick, more power to you. But you should know you’ll be much more appealing to them than I am. See, you might be fallen, but your origins are still angelic. That means, as lower caste demons, they’d love to play with
you
.” She shoved him back a step. “So I’ll make you a deal. You take me to the Oakland Cemetery right now, and we’ll just see who gets asked to date first.”
    Dominic gaped at her. “Where’d you park your broom, Hilda?”
    Seth shoved the two apart, though he was admittedly rougher with Dominic. The larger man hardly moved. “Back off, Conan.”
    “Your flame is your life’s blood. Without it, you’re mortal.” Griff stepped in tight and the three of them stood nearly shoulder to shoulder, the nucleus of energy in the room.
    Seth laced his hands together behind his neck and pulled, the strain on his frame noticeable. “No, I’m not.”
    “What?” the two men said in unison.
    “Without my element, I’m dying.”
    * * *
    Eden heard the words but refused to believe them. Her kind cherished life. They valued the individual as well as the group, and she knew the coven’s elders would be furious with her for violating a being’s right to life. Mouth dry and palms sweaty, she stepped closer to the cluster of men. “I’ll ask my mentor how to return your flame, Seth.”
    He looked over at her, eyes that had blazed with passion now flat and cold. “I don’t think so, witch.”
    The last word was issued as a vile epithet.
    Bailey stepped close to Seth and laid a hand on his arm. “Are you really dying?”
    He only looked at her in answer.
    She closed her eyes and took a fortifying breath, her chin quivering. Eden thought she’d lose her mind before the other woman finally opened tear-sheened eyes and gazed up at Seth.
    The idea Eden could, quite literally, turn the succubus into a barnyard animal made her feel a little better. Until Bailey cupped Seth’s face in her hands and gently kissed each corner of his mouth. Then she simply wanted to be the woman who Seth allowed to touch him.
    The woman settled back, hands still on Seth’s face. “What do you have to lose by letting…” She looked back at Eden and let a small smile play around her mouth, sad but sincere. “I’m sorry. I don’t know your name.”
    “No problem.” She shrugged, nonchalant. “Seth just calls me Red.”
    “What’s your name?” Griff asked as he stepped close to his woman’s side.
    “Eden.”
    Dominic snorted. “As in ‘the garden of’? That’s better than a MasterCard commercial—priceless.” Rhyan tagged him in the arm and he scowled at her. “What’d I say?”
    Eden spread her feet, shaking her hands out and rolling her head back and forth. “You want to go another round? Because I’m game. Try to play harder, though,’kay? I always feel bad taking people with the IQ of a fencepost and beating them about the head and shoulders with it. Seems so unfair.”
    “I don’t hit women,” he said, jaw clenched, “but I’m about to make an exception.”
    “I won’t break, so bring it…Fabio.”
    Eden looked around the room to find everyone watching her. Everyone except the very man she most wanted to appease. He kept his back turned. “Seth, I didn’t capture your element on purpose. Let me make this right. Please.”
    Shoulders squaring up, he turned to face her. “What’s the catch?”
    “Catch?” she asked stupidly before slapping