Lila POV
“Derek, if that’s you back without my f*****g demon—”
Caleb pauses mid-sentence, his deep caramel eyes slowly dropping onto me.
I didn’t think the tip I got from a man outside the large fenced-off area for the demon-hunting trials was right when he said Caleb lived here. Mostly because the man appeared drunk, and it was too lucky that the first person I asked actually knew him.
Turns out the long shot was bang on.
Caleb’s six-foot, built-as-hell frame towers over me. I forgot how intimidating his stare is.
“Who the f**k are you, and what do you want?”
I’m speechless for a second too long. With unseeable speed, he whips a silver dagger out from his back and places the tip under my chin. Fury burns in his eyes, and two black marks running from his forehead, around his eyes,
