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With a sharp nod, he stood and began pacing, reminding me of a caged lion. “I’ll call my cousin Silas, see if his wife Natalie can help. Perhaps she can put us in contact with the Siren Coven. They stopped Lucifer once before. They might be able to do something.”

Everything was making a horrible, grim sort of sense. The demons coming after me. The wards reacting to me and not Alek. Why I’d never met my mother. Why she was asking me to free her.

Crap. I was the literal spawn of Satan.

“I... oh, God, Noah. I can’t be here. I can’t...” My breaths came in harsh gasps as panic clawed at my throat, my blood humming with anxiety.

Noah pulled me into his arms, pressing his lips to my forehead as he murmured reassurances against my skin. “It’s going to be all right, dove. I don’t bloody well care who your parents are. You’re mine, and I won’t give you up. Not even for the ruler of the underworld herself. We will figure this out. We will keep you safe.”