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to perch on the
coffee table, a game controller in his hand.
    “ Ooh, Xbox car racing!”
William said. “Give us a turn, will you? I love this
one.”
    Sebastian’s look become more pointed as
Damian set a controller before William’s head and positioned it so
it could be manipulated by the revenant’s mouth.
    “ I admit it’s stretching
the precepts set down by the Society a bit far, but his head is
still sentient.”
    “ Vroom!” William said.
Sebastian pursed his lips.
    “ Okay, just barely, but it
still seemed wrong to leave him behind just because the imps blew
up the rest of his body.”
    “ I’m done. Next!” Jack
said as he emerged from the suite’s guest bathroom. Although we’d
survived Damian’s house exploding, we were all a bit singed about
the edges and covered in soot and dirt.
    “ Ysabelle?” Tim
asked.
    I waved an exhausted hand. “I’ll wait. You
all go ahead.”
    “ You may clean up in my
bathroom while I have a word with you,” Sebastian said, hauling me
to my feet again. “The bedroom is through here.”
    “ Dibs on le couch,” said Sally as
Tim kindly let her out of another carrier bag. “Oooh! Très bon hotel room,
Sebastian! I like it. Is there service du food en
la room? Je
suis starved.”
    “ I have a few things I’d
like to say to you, as well, but I’m not going into your bedroom,”
I told Sebastian, sitting down again.
    He stood in front of me,
his hands on his hips. Why not?
    Because you’ll just try to seduce me, and
quite frankly, I’m not sure I could resist.
    The rotter had the nerve
to smile. It lit his eyes, sending little tremors of excitement
through me. We are Joined. We will be
together until the end of our days. Your body belongs to me, and
mine to you. There is nothing wrong with me seducing you
now.
    “ I’m sure that’s what you
think, but I still have a billion or so issues to work through over
this whole Beloved thing,” I said blandly, and refused to let him
pull me out of the chair again.
    “ Est ce le bedroom? Oooh! Huge bed!” Sally drifted into the
bedroom.
    “ Anything you have to say
you can say to me here,” I told Sebastian as he continued to glare
and send me thoughts that just about steamed my blood. “There’s
nothing you can’t say in front of my friends.”
    “ That’s right,” Tim said,
emerging from the bathroom with a damp shirt but a clean face. “I
feel we owe a lot to Ysabelle. Clearly you two are having some sort
of relationship crisis, and we all want you to know that we’re here
to help you work it out.”
    The other revenants nodded. Sebastian said
rude things in French under his breath.
    “ That’s very sweet of you.
I greatly appreciate the support, although I’m a bit concerned
about your safety.” I glanced at Sebastian. “How long do you think
we have before the demon tracks me down again?”
    Before I could brace
myself, he grabbed my wrists and pulled me into his arms. You are the single most irritatingly stubborn
woman I have ever met.
    I kissed the tip of his nose. “Oddly enough,
I was just about to say the same about you. How long do we have, do
you think?”
    He sighed, his hands stroking gently down my
back. My body—against my better intentions—melted against him. “I
would say an hour or less, depending on the resources the demon is
able to utilize. If it searches for you on its own, longer. If it
rallies an army, perhaps twenty minutes at best. I must find it
before it does either.”
    “ Find it? Why find it?
It’s going to be here soon enough,” I pointed out.
    “ I must destroy it before
it can find you again,” he answered, striding to a desk upon which
sat a black attaché case. He rifled through it and extracted a
small burgundy notebook. I couldn’t help watching him move,
admiring the lines of his impressive body, the strength and
controlled power that he seemed to bear so easily. His every
movement was filled with an almost feline grace that warned of a
ruthless,