Abruptly lifting his head, Xeon met Mathena's stunned gaze.
"Are you seriously out of your mind?" Mathena glared at Xeon.
"Nope!"
"Then why the hell do you keep doing that?" she muttered, her cheeks flushed with a heat she couldn’t hide.
Xeon growled deep in his throat. "If I knew, I would no doubt be falling on the nearest stake."
The sweet devil's eyes flashed. The nerve, she thought to herself. "That can be arranged, prince, I can do—"
"Kids, kids! There you are." Stomping from the cave, Stephen regarded them with a jaundiced frown, his silly wings twitching in aggravation. "I thought you’d abandoned me. Again."
Xeon swallowed a snarl, resisting the urge to toss the little demon into the river below. His body might howl at the interruption, but the pea-sized part of his brain tha
