Shocked by the sudden movement of Xeon, as someone shot and accidentally or deliberately untied the rope that bound her to the tree. Not to mention the six-foot-plus man that had just landed on top of her, Mathena struggled to clear the fog from her mind.
What the hell just happened? One minute she was laughing, the next, her ears were ringing?
She knew enough to realize that someone had shot the tree. And that Xeon had quite likely saved her from a nasty injury. What she didn’t know was why.
It couldn’t have been the demon after her. Mathena thought as if some unknown distant knowledge that wasn't hers made her aware of something she didn't have any idea of.
"What the heck." She grumbled.
The few times the demon had tried to use a gun, he hadn’t been able to hit the broadside of a ba
