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said. “Tell Charun I merely righted a wrong. This one isn’t his yet.”
    The demon cocked its head again the other way, looking more like a bird than ever. “I didn’t realize you made a habit of interfering with lives like this.”
    Hinthial’s chin lifted a fraction of an inch. “There’s much you don’t know about me.”
    Nathum’s gaze darted to Sal, standing next to Hinthial , then to Cara. Her heart tried to beat itself out of her chest but she met the demon’s black eyes and didn’t flinch. Then its gaze dropped to Michael.
    “Certainly didn’t know you were cavorting with the Mal .”
    “I’m not cavorting.” Hinthial’s brows lifted and the demon immediately dropped its gaze. “Have you satisfied your curiosity, Nathum ? If so then we should leave. I’m sure you wouldn’t want Charun to believe you were here cavorting as well.”
    Hinthial turned to Sal, who bowed low and deep. “Thank you again for your assistance, Lady.”
    “You are welcome, Salvatorus ,” Hinthial replied with a cold tone that made Cara shiver. The goddess had sounded so warm earlier. So normal. Now she was acting exactly like Cara thought a goddess would act. Haughty. Supreme. Unfeeling.
    Cara looked back at the demon, who nodded its head and disappeared. Just as Hinthial did milliseconds later.
    Cara heard Sal sigh, long and deep, but she couldn’t formulate a single question. Michael consumed her entire attention.
    His chest rose up and down in steady rhythm, and when she moved closer and put her hand against his forehead, she thought his temperature seemed almost normal. Maybe a little cold still but that was to be expected.
    He’d been dead for several minutes.
    And she had so many questions crowding her head, she had to shake it to make them come into some order. “Sal, what happened?”
    Behind her, she heard Sal opening and closing drawers before he opened the door to her small closet. When she turned, still holding tightly to Michael’s hand, she saw Sal had her duffel bag in one hand.
    “I need to get Michael back to my place, Cara. It’s the only place he’ll be safe until he recovers. And he can’t stay here. Selvans is going to have my ass in a sling over this as it is.”
    Selvans , Etruscan God of the Forest, gave his particular protection to this enclave. Cara had yet to meet him but it was never good to piss off a god. “I’m sorry, Sal. I never meant to get you in trouble. I didn’t know Michael was coming. But I’m not sorry he’s here.”
    Her emotions seesawed between anger at the fact that she’d almost lost him, to fear for her friends if any of the Mal discovered their hidden village, to joy that he was actually here. After all this time, he’d come back to her.
    When he’d left more than a year ago, he’d told her he was going to make it safe for her and Aron to live. To be able to walk down a street and not have to look over her shoulder to see if anyone was following her. To be free of the Mal and never worry about anyone kidnapping her and making her a sex slave again.
    Though he’d never said, she knew he was going to kill the men who’d kept her and her sister locked away.
    She let her gaze run over his body. Sal must have lit several candles around the room, which she hadn’t noticed until now. That dim glow allowed her to see Michael’s body in all its masculine glory. He stood just under six feet and was as solidly built as any professional athlete, maybe more so. Muscles rippled under his sleek, tanned skin, from his strong legs to his six-pack abs to his broad shoulders and bulging arms. She thought he might even have gained more muscles since she’d last seen him.
    She knew he’d gained more scars.
    Two jagged slashes, already white with age, crossed his abdomen. His arms had several smaller scars and his left leg bore a puckered circular mark that looked like a puncture wound.
    He’d had none of those when he’d left.
    His upper lip had been split recently and