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counter and kiss that tormenting mouth. Show her just how ungay he was. But she was already walking away with her friend to a table at the back.
    Saia, he decided, was too damn dangerous. She came fully armed with her flashing dimple and husky voice.
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    As the hour crept past midnight, the tension in Riley grew like a slowly tightening vise.
    He surveyed the bar again. With Caligos masquerading as humans, looking for their next target, along with those vicious blood-demons roaming this area, he had more than the usual shit to deal with. Around this time, they usually came out to hunt.
    He wanted Saia out of the bar. But she and her friend appeared to have no desire to leave.
    Usually, he didn't care when people bopped around on the improvised dance floor, but not tonight. As the long night progressed, Riley’s clenched jaw started to ache.
    Hell, he should be relieved she hadn’t come back to torment him, but somehow, he couldn’t seem to stop watching her. Or stop the low snarls leaving him every time she hit the floor with some male. He didn't want another man touching her. Had no idea where the hell this territorial shit stemmed from.
    By Hades , when she bumped and grinded with yet another, he realized he had to get out of there. Or else he’d end up punching the human, and Zac would bounce him out of his own bar.
    He turned to leave, but at the prickly sensation grating over his psyche, his gaze flashed over the dancers and stopped on Saia. Shit! His heart kicked hard against his sternum when he saw what she was dancing with—no, not dancing, rather trying to get away from.
    At the telltale grayish aura surrounding the human, Riley scaled over the counter and tore across the dance floor, shoving bodies aside, their curses lost to the noisy music. He thrust the Caligo away, grabbed Saia by her arm, and hauled her away from the formless fuck that now inhabited some poor sod’s body.
    The Caligo’s head snapped toward him, growling low in its throat.
    Riley pushed his way through the crowds, Saia in tow.
    “Hey! Just what do you think you're doing?” She slammed a palm into his chest, stopping him at the edge of the dance floor. Her scowl turned to a frown when she saw him. “Riley?”
    He yanked her close. “You’re leaving,” he snapped over her head at the Caligo following, all too aware of the armful of tempting female he had plastered against him.
    “Who’sss gonna make me? You ?”
    At the sly hiss, Riley realized this thing could cause panic and mayhem among the humans. He couldn’t have that. Saia had no damn idea just how close she’d come to losing her life.
    Caligos, shapeless black entities from the deepest part of Hell, craved emotions. They could temporarily take on any shape to lure their human hosts close—inhabit—then feed their need for emotions and whatever else got their rocks off. But the evil residing within took its toll on mortal bodies. When they moved on, they left only death in their wake.
    Zac appeared beside Riley. One look at the Caligo and his expression hardened. With him being half demon, he’d recognize this atrocity. “Get the hell outta here.”
    The Caligo didn't budge, its entire focus fixed on Saia. “Mine.”
    The fact that it could speak without slurring showed it had inhabited its host for a few days. Bastards were fast learners. It could only be acting on its host’s sexual wants now. In a few weeks, this shithead’s host would start to disintegrate because Caligos didn't eat, and couldn’t sustain the human bodies they occupied.
    Riley had to rein in the urge to eliminate the thing right there. Caligos could only die by light or fire. Kill it by any other means, and two more morphed from it. The fuckers were a real pain in the ass.
    “Come on,” the Caligo coaxed Saia with a pleading smile. It would take on all the mannerisms of its host. “Let’s get away from here. I know another place.”
    “Look, Trevor,” she pushed away from Riley, “I'm