Chapter 128

“Wait!” Nathan cried, stepping in front of Sasha to block him from her. “That was an accident. I wasn’t thinking. I don’t want to be an incubus.” He didn’t have time right now to care if Sasha was pained to hear that. “Caught up in the moment, ya know? You can’t take Jim back. See? All human again, just like you want.”

Now Jim knew what he had interrupted, but Nathan didn’t have time to deal with that either.

The sidhe pursed her lips, not yet swayed. “If not for the consequence of losing your brother, you would have gone through with that little ritual tonight, I think. Perhaps it would be better if I removed the temptation. Tell me,” she said with a cruel quirk of her lips, “do you know what it looks like, Nathan…when an incubus starves to death?” 39