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Jennie’s face puckered. “How—?”

“It doesn’t matter,” Travis said. “That’s not the point of this, and that’s obviously not what I meant, Randy. The demon is making him do all this. We don’t know if he’s the same person underneath it all.”

“I knew about the demon,” Jennie said, interjecting her thoughts.

“Good, so you know your ex-boyfriend has gone off the fucking rails, and you still decided to come back? That’s smart.”

“Oh, shut up, Lacone,” Jennie sneered.

“Whatever. Your death wish.” And I meant it. He’d been trying to take us out. What did Jennie think he was going to do? See her face and then suddenly remember he didn’t want to kill everybody? Seeing her made me think the opposite. She’s fucking annoying.

Norah widened her eyes at Liam. Still pale, he leaned over to me and whispered, “Calm down.” He leaned in a little closer. “That was from Norah, but I agree with you.”

He moved back to leaning his head on the back cushion. I really hoped he’d be feeling better soon. I hated to see him like this. Norah must’ve had the same instinct because she came over and ran her hands through his hair. “Do you feel any better?”

He nodded. “I’m not queasy anymore.”

“That’s something,” she said, her voice soft.

“I just feel wiped.”

She nodded. “Dean’s the same.” Her lips were a thin line as she looked at him. “Now seeing both of you, this has to be familiar related. Have you ever heard of anything like that?”

Liam shook his head back and forth. “This is all such new territory for us.”

“We did get you the book though,” she said. She held her hands back and Gabe came over and placed an antique book in her palm. “Ren said this is the one you wanted.”

Liam sat up and took the book from her. She moved back on her heels and made some room for him. His face pinkened a bit, a renewed look that suited him better than pale corpse. “I’m going to take this into my room and see what I can find.”

Norah stood and helped him up. We were all silent as he walked like a zombie toward the hall and then disappeared around the corner. I patted the sofa cushion next to me and Norah sat, scooting next to me to give Gabe some room on the other side.

“Is he going to be okay?” Jennie asked. “He looks like shit.”

Norah tensed, but Gabe grabbed her thigh. I would’ve just let her at Jennie, but that was me.

“I just don’t think this is the safest place for you right now, Jennie,” Travis said. “We don’t know how he’ll react when he realizes you’re here.”

Jennie shrugged. “I have to find out, Travis. I couldn’t just stay in Adams with all this going on. You know I—” She cleared her throat. “You know I love him. If there’s a chance.”

Travis nodded. Though my heart went out to her for losing Jax, I still thought this was a terrible idea. But Travis ate it all up. He moved from the recliner to the couch. “I know. Just promise me you won’t do anything stupid.”

I clamped down on my jaw. As far as I was concerned, she’d already done something stupid.

10

Travis’s sister hadn’t said more than two words to me since she got here and she’d pretty much taken over the place. This could sound odd, but I really liked it when it was just my coven and me. Outsiders made me nervous, and made me feel like I couldn’t be myself. She already thought it was odd we were all together together, but in reality, she was probably just jealous. I couldn’t think of one woman who wouldn’t think it was a great idea to be with more than one man. Things are literally never dull. But people fear things that are out of the ordinary. Being a witch, you would think Jennie wouldn’t be that way, but she was.

I was moping around in Liam’s room while he slept when Randy walked in. “Hey.”

“Hey,” I said, whispering. Liam had fallen asleep with the book over his chest earlier, so I’d moved it to the nightstand.

Randy held up the keys to his bike. “You want to get out of here for a little while.”

“Fuck yes,” I said, feeling relieved already.

He held his hand out to me and then we walked through the living room, telling Travis and Jennie that we were going out. Travis stood immediately, coming up behind me. “Hey,” he said, grabbing my waist.

Randy and I both stopped.