Demon Bait: Children of the Undying, Book 1

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Author: Moira Rogers
Tags: paranormal romance, SciFi-Futuristic Romance
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smacked her forehead against the door’s surface. “The lockdown can only be cancelled with a keycode generated on the mainframe in Nicollet.” Waiting for the humans to free him was out of the question. As a smuggler, they wouldn’t be friendly to him. As a halfblood demon…
    Gabe moved to the right side of the lounge, where a round table sat surrounded by chairs, several tipped over in front of half-eaten meals, as if those on break had abandoned their spots when the alarms went off.
    He set down the bags and began to unpack bottled water and packaged rations. “So we need to be ready to spend a few days here.”
    “I distinctly recall telling you that several times.”
    “Let me rephrase. You need to be ready to spend a few days here with me.” She laughed, but the sound was cut abruptly short as she turned to face him. “You’re half-demon. What kind?”
    Humans probably had categories and classifications. It seemed like a human thing to do—name a problem and then avoid it. “We don’t bother much with that. Some of us are lovers. Some are fighters. Warriors and mediators.” He tossed her a smile. “Which do you think I am?” Marci shivered, a breath escaping her on a soft moan. “Rules. I think we need rules.” He could play along, if it made her feel better. “What kind of rules?” Her short, dark hair brushed the pale column of her neck as she glanced around the room. “I don’t spend a lot of time in this lounge, but it has beds, through that door over there. Just a few, mostly for shift workers who live on the other side of the complex but who need to rest between splits.”
    “All right.” He concentrated on lining up the water bottles on the table and let her work her way around to whatever she had to say.
    “They’re all in one room,” she said evenly, “but there’s no reason we can’t move one out here, yes?”
    Gabe scanned the rest of the lounge. Besides the table, it held two beat-up couches, a smattering of chairs, and a screen that looked like an old-fashioned television affixed to the wall.
    Posh, all things considered. Probably why people from the city were willing to be posted here in spite of the danger. “I’ll sleep on the couch, if you’re not in the mood to cuddle.”
    “Suit yourself.”
    Her tone made it clear that she didn’t care what the hell he did, as long as he stayed away from her.
    She was pissy as fuck, and he liked that a whole lot better than the fear.
    Especially since she was hot when she was mad.
    Telling himself it wouldn’t be smart to provoke her, Gabe settled on middle ground—and a change of subject. “Is that a real television?”
    “What?” She glanced back at him and then at the wall. “Yeah, sure. We get some programming streamed in from the city, but it’s mostly local-server stuff. Old TV shows, movies.”
    “Why don’t you just…?” He shrugged and waved a hand in a drunken loop, common enough shorthand among his peers. “You know. Uplink and watch it there?” Marci frowned as she opened one of the bags and rifled through it. “Why? It’s hardly worth the disorientation for fifteen minutes of downtime.”
    “Not something I’ve seen much of, is all.” Not that Zel hadn’t tried to bring back some of the conveniences of the old world, but there was only so much he could do with space at a premium. No room for lounges where only a few people could see a screen, not when their techie could build lavish virtual movie theaters large enough to accommodate half the settlement.
    Her quiet voice cut through his thoughts. “You’re from Rochester, aren’t you?” He supposed it was the only logical conclusion. Since he had every intention of taking her back there with him, he didn’t bother to lie. “Yes.”
    “So what are you doing here?”
    “Trade.” He smiled, just a smile, no seductive force behind it. “Bribing people for trade.” From the look on her face—vaguely intrigued, but not surprised—she’d

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