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retort of the gun, but five pink darts hit the demon in quick succession, protruding from his skin like odd piercings.
    Jez watched in fascination as the demon’s form sizzled and slowly expanded as if he were doing a remake of the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka. She definitely didn’t want to be around when he “popped.”
    Movement caught her attention, and she glanced up in time to see the human jump onto the bar in front of her.
    “You gonna throw those?”
    Jez jumped when he grabbed the two already-lit bottle bombs in front of her and tossed them toward the demon before he dove over the bar, nearly knocking her on her ass.
    She scowled as she realized she’d gotten distracted and almost let the bottles explode in her face.
    The sound of two explosions one after another rent the air and startled Jez. She sat frozen for a long moment, sizing up the human. Up close his eyes were the soft gray of storm clouds, and they alternately sparked with intelligence and curiosity.
    He picked up two more bottle bombs, lit them, and tossed them blind over the bar in the general direction of the demon before he grabbed her around the waist, dragging her with him as he rushed toward the end of the bar and along the shadowed edges of the walls.
    “Hey,” she protested as she scrambled to try and gain her feet. “I can walk, you know. Put me down.”
    “Fine.” He let go and dropped her, nearly dumping Jez on her ass again as he continued forward. “Stay down, and run like hell,” he hissed over his shoulder as he ducked through the exit doors, just a second before the two bottle bombs exploded.

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    Noah shook his head at the annoyed expression that slid across Jezebeth’s features when he’d nearly dropped her on her ass. After all, he’d risked his neck to save her back there; she could at least be appreciative. Hadn’t he told her to run?
    She came back for you, his conscience reminded him, making him scowl.
    That had surprised him. From everything he’d learned about succubi in the past few weeks from the imp Lilith had sent to give him this assignment, he’d figured Jezebeth would cut and run and he’d have to track her down once he’d killed the demon.
    Although since the imp who had given him the information was the same one who had just tried to help the pestilence demon kill him, Noah wasn’t sure how much of its so-called information he could trust.
    He had to admit, he’d been impressed with Jezebeth’s quick thinking in making the bottle bombs. Succubi had to be smart to survive as they did, so maybe this assignment would be quick and easy.
    Yeah, right.
    Noah adjusted his backpack on his shoulders and winced as the shards of glass still embedded in his arm and side from the first of the bottle bombs moved inside their wounds. Once the first one had exploded he’d kept his distance and let the demon take the worst of the debris.
    He mentally shoved aside the pain and glanced around. It wouldn’t be too long before the pestilence demon recovered enough to come after them, and they needed to put some distance between them and it as quickly as they could. He doubted they’d been lucky enough to destroy its earthbound form—mid-level bounty demons were supposed to be very hard to kill.
    Noah edged around the building and breathed a sigh of relief when the pickup he’d stocked with supplies still sat unharmed in the parking lot. The way the last few weeks had gone, he wouldn’t have been surprised if the truck mysteriously disappeared and he had to walk the damned succubus to the final rendezvous.
    He looked over his shoulder to find Jezebeth peering past him toward the parking lot. Her ridiculously large breasts nearly spilled out of her corset as she leaned forward to see around the corner. Noah resisted the urge to roll his eyes. “By the way, I’m Noah. Lilith sent me here to bring you back to her lair.” The words sounded inane, even as they spilled from his lips, but he couldn’t think of a