Chapter 28

Nathan Marsh

"So what's your secret?" Ivy asks as soon as she recognizes me.

"I, my dear, am a demon. I have known your grandmother since she was your age, and made a small mistake in a summoning, bringing me instead of the minor invocate she was intending to call."

"Hello, Nathan the Demon. I am Ivy the Witch. Are you going to need to cast me aside now that you know that?"

"I have known you were a witch longer than you have, and my path is ever by your side."

"Well, my path leads to my bedroom. Take me there."

"Let me see if it is safe to take you there," I say, reaching for my phone as I start the car.

"Why wouldn't it be safe?" Ivy asks.

"The hunter has been watching your house and Carl's."

"Home. Ben apparently is going to make enough of some sort of vampire ruckus to get her running after him. She can have him. They deserve each other."

"Home it is then?"