Page 12 of Wreaking Havoc
“You don’t have a coat on,” Buff Dude pointed out.
“I…dropped it.”
“Oh. Bummer.” The guy nodded, apparently convinced. Maybe not the brightest crayon in the tool shed. Sascha knew the type—it was one of his favorite types, actually—good-looking and built and dumb as rocks.
No matter that Buff Dude didn’t hold a candle to Kai’s unearthly beauty.
Sascha would have to be twelve kinds of crazy to lust after a literal demon.
Buff Dude tilted his head toward the inside of the bar. “You going in? It’s cold out. Especially if you dropped your coat.”
Sascha glanced at the door. The place didn’t have any windows, at least not on the front side. But he could imagine it would be, at the very minimum, warm inside. He could pick this himbo up, get him to take Sascha home, leave the worrying about the demon for another day.
That would be the familiar, cowardly way out. Push it aside. Pretend not to see it. Leave it for someone else to deal with. He’d continue hiding out, Ivan would clean up his mess eventually, and Sascha would get to go home.
Until the next time Ivan pissed off someone powerful, that was.
Sascha held up a finger to the nice, muscled man. “One sec, champ.”
He fished out his phone and sent a text.
I’ve summoned a demon.
Ivan’s reply was prompt and predictable.
I don’t have time for your games right now.
Sascha didn’t have to bite back any tears this time. Of course Ivan wouldn’t take him seriously. No one did. No one ever had. But with Kai at his disposal…
Sascha sent one last, longing look at the hottie in front of the bar.
And then he turned around.
This demon wanted to be at Sascha’s beck and call, form a contract, wreak havoc on Sascha’s enemies?
Then maybe it was finally time for Sascha to start doing things a little differently.
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Kai
The human had just…left. With Kai still in the damned summoning circle.
Kai growled, smacking at the invisible barrier that surrounded him. He would have liked to be able to at least pace his frustration out, but the boundary wouldn’t allow him even that much.
Was this a negotiation tactic of some kind? Leave Kai to stew and hope for better terms? If so, the pup had another thing coming to him—contracts only went one way.
But the little human had seemed more frightened than wily.
Had he truly summoned Kai by accident?
Kai grinned wolfishly.Poor pup.
He certainly wasn’t anything like the humans who had summoned Kai before. Kai had always been called by warriors, chieftains, leaders of men. Battle-weary and bloodstained and almost always arrogant to a fault. But this human? He was slender and soft, with delicate features and clear blue eyes, his hair a pale white-blond that was rare to see on a man grown.He looked more likely to warm a man’s bed than lead him into battle.
He was different. Almost…interesting.
Although, anything would be interesting after being stuck in the Void for centuries. Kai had looked through the portal into the human realm enough to know that time had progressed, but he hadn’t paid much attention to the details. He wasn’t like the incubus or Chaos, enraptured by every little thing the humans did. Kai had wanted to be done with this world.
