Chapter 43

I flew down the front stairs, fear fish-hooking into me. "What-"

Baruch and Drio, huddled around Rohan, looked up at the sound of my voice. The ensuing gap allowed me a close up look at the inside of Rohan's right arm. I clapped a hand over my mouth, swallowing hard against the taste of bile. Someone was keening and I had the sneaking suspicion it was me.

Baruch ripped his shirt off, making a tourniquet to staunch the bleeding.

"Kane!" Rohan failed to look perturbed at the sight of his tendons spilling out of his skin but he was mightily annoyed at me swaying on my feet.

Kane leapt off the bottom front stair, his arms coming around me. "Inside."

"Where's Ari?"

Rohan's expression softened. "Demons got him. Right outside the gate."

Outside the wards. "Asmodeus?"

He shook his head. "They were trying to get past the wards. I think it was just bad timing on his part and opportunity on theirs."

"They think they snatched a Rasha?" Kane asked.