Taking Phoebe's hand, Urian led her toward the door. "C'mon, Phe, I don't have much time before I have to return to Kalosis and I don't want to spend it with my enemies."
As soon as Urian and Phoebe left, Chris headed off to bed.
Cassandra and Wulf were alone.
"You think Kat's okay?" Wulf asked as he picked up Chris's glass and closed the chips.
"I'm sure she is. She'll probably be back soon." Cassandra gathered her sister's letters for the baby and tucked them inside the box.
"After that book she bought, I shudder to think what your sister wrote in her letters."
"Hmmm," Cassandra said, glancing back at the box. "Maybe I should read them first..."
"Well, if they point to me as a horned demon, I would appreciate it."
Cassandra dropped her gaze down to his lap and to the bulge that was already there. "I don't know about that. From my experience you are a horny demon."
He arched a brow. "Am I?"
"Uh-huh. Horny to the extreme."
He laughed, then kissed her slowly, hotly. "You taste like lemon," he whispered against her lips.
Cassandra licked her lips as she remembered putting lemon juice on her fish.
Wulf tasted of decadence, wild, fierce decadence, and he made her heart race.
"Oh, oh, wait, I'm going blind!"
Wulf pulled back at the sound of Kat's voice.
Cassandra looked over her shoulder to see her friend standing in the open doorway.
Kat shut the door behind her. "Thank goodness no one's naked."
"Three more seconds and we would have been," Wulf teased.
"Ew!" Kat cringed. "More information than I needed."
She walked over to sit across from them. Her joking aside, Kat's features looked pinched.
Wulf was a bit disgruntled by her intrusion.
Cassandra pulled back from him and turned around to face Kat. "Something wrong?"
"Just a bit. Stryker isn't happy about your vanishing. The Destroyer was also pissed at me. A lot. Luckily, she hasn't rescinded the no-touch law where I'm concerned. It gives us some leeway, but I'm not sure how long Stryker will abide by it."
"Will you have any warning if they do rescind it?" Wulf asked.
"I don't know."
"What happened with Urian?" Cassandra asked. "Did they find out about his helping us?"
"No, I don't think so. But I'll tell you what. I'm afraid of what Stryker might do to him if he ever learned Urian was helping us. He wants you and the baby dead in the worst way."
Cassandra swallowed at that, then changed the subject. "So what did you two do?"
"I dropped Urian off at his house and left him there so that no one would know I was helping him. If anyone saw me near him, they'd be suspicious immediately. We haven't exactly been friends over the centuries. Hell, we haven't even been cordial."