There wasn't one.
She was here and Dev...
Oh God, Dev...
Tears blinded her as that old helpless feeling ripped her apart. "You lying bastard!"
Guilt and grief tore through her. Dev was dead and it was all her fault. She'd caused this. Had she not thrown him out, she would have been there to protect him when Stryker came to get him.
How could she have let him go?
You're a fool. Twice now she'd lost the man she loved.
And as she wept, she felt her Dark-Hunter powers waning. I don't care. Nothing mattered to her anymore. Let them kill her.
Yet again the Daimons had taken everything from her. Only this time, she couldn't blame her sister.
She could only blame herself.
Sick to her stomach, she didn't know where to go or what to do. Aimless, she found herself back at Nick's house, walking through the gate and then the back door.
How do I tell Dev's family what I let happen? They would be crushed. All of them...
Nick stopped her as she reached the bottom of his staircase. "Where did you go?"
She ignored Nick's question as she stepped past him.
"Sam?" Nick snapped. "What are you doing?"
Numb, she couldn't think straight. "I need to be alone for a minute."
Or a millennium.
I just want to die.
She stumbled up the stairs, wishing Stryker had killed her too. How could she have ever been so stupid as to trust a Daimon?
Her heart breaking, she opened the door to her room and froze.
No way...
Was it possible?
She blinked her eyes in disbelief as she saw Dev standing near her bed.
It couldn't be.
"Dev?"
He was looking around as if he was as dazed as she'd been in Kalosis. "How did I get here? I swear I'm not stalking you, Sam. I didn't--"
Laughing, she launched herself at him and wrapped her body around his while she kissed him over and over again.
Dev staggered back as Sam assaulted him. He'd expected her to be mad for his breaking her "space," but there was nothing even remotely angry about her giddiness as she kissed him senseless.
Yeah, the woman was nuts. But as she rained kisses over him, he was getting harder by the minute and forgetting why he wasn't supposed to be here with her.
"I thought you were dead."