Chapter 8

“How am I going to trust you?” he asked before he caught himself.

Kev looked up. Sure, he was collared, but Archer figured a demon could get out of that no problem. And he had no idea how the other demons would react to him.

“I’m going to be following your orders,” said Kev.

“All of them?”

“Yeah,” said Kev, and swallowed, and looked away. “All of them.”

“What if you’re not into it?”

“What?” asked Kev, laughing. He was laughing.

Archer stared at him. It shouldn’t surprise him demons didn’t have the same concept of consent, but then Kev had backed off when Archer had told him to. He couldn’t tell what was going on.

“Screaming, ‘no,’ is part of the fun,” said Kev.

“Okay,” said Archer, “but in case you do want an out, you can use the stoplight system—”

“I’m not going to go shouting random colors where everyone can hear.”