Marked by Hades by Reese Monroe Page B

went to Yvonne. “What. The. Hell?”
    “Chillax, Halena.” Justin held up his hand. “We can explain.”
    “You do not bring a human—what—one of your floozies, Justin? Really. I—”
    “Did you just call me a floozy?” Despite her thick French accent, this woman called Halena flipped a trigger in Yvonne’s chest with that insult. She might not know who or what she was, but this woman had no right to call her a floozy.
    “Silence.” Theo bellowed.
    Halena stopped in her tracks but never took her focus from Yvonne. Justin stepped between them.
    What the hell had she walked into?
    “Hey, hon.” A second woman, dressed in black fatigues like Theo, sauntered in. She skidded to a stop, her eyes went wide, and she screamed. “Demon!”
    Justin squatted, pulling a dagger of some sort from his ankle. Theo held two, one in each hand, and turned a circle. “Where?”
    The woman pointed at Yvonne. “Her. Her. Her. She’s with Aggie!”
    Yvonne’s heart leaped up into her throat. Theo advanced.
    “Don’t touch her skin,” Justin yelled.
    Yvonne crumpled beneath the giant’s weight. Theo’d been careful to tackle her legs. She kicked, and he grunted. Reaching to rip off her glove, she felt another hand clamp on her wrist.
    Justin.
    The French girl stepped on her other wrist, effectively immobilizing her.
    She was trapped.
    …
    “What the hell is going on here?” Justin paced the short hallway in front of the bars caging Yvonne, his anger raging to epic levels. “Agares? You were his woman?”
    “Justin, please. I don’t know who Agares is.” She eyed Sadie. “I’ve never seen this woman before. I swear it.”
    “Liar.” Sadie’s eyes flashed red. “You’re Dyre. You helped me find the scroll to end Aggie. Helped me out of his lair in Hades.”
    Yvonne shook her head and hugged her stomach. She still wore Justin’s leather jacket. Hell, he could still feel her body beneath his, smell her intoxicating lavender scent. Even more baffling, he was in France and still felt his Mate’s Mark calling to him.
    His mind swam with questions. He had no answers, and Yvonne claimed ignorance. He only knew that Sadie had been held for over three months, drugged, and that she was saying this woman had been part of it.
    Was a demon.
    He almost puked. This… demon …had catapulted him into pleasure harder and faster than any other woman he’d ever been with. They hadn’t even had sex, and he’d felt sated beyond measure without even touching her flesh.
    But he didn’t sense that she was a demon, and neither did Theo. What the hell was going on?
    Justin motioned for Theo, Sadie, and Halena to follow him. They made their way down the narrow hallway and through the door at the end of the makeshift dungeon.
    The heavy door slammed shut.
    “ Connard. How dare you bring a demon to my sanctuary.” Halena shoved him. “You and your flings. Can’t keep it in your pants long enough to know who you’re doing it with?”
    “Enough, Halena,” Theo said.
    “No, Theo. This is my home. How could he—”
    “She tripped no demon warnings in either of us.” Theo eyed Halena. “And yours aren’t flaring, either. How do you explain that?”
    “She’s demon, Theo. At least in that cave she was a black-eyed demon, but now, she has green eyes. Wait, she’d said her human name was Yvonne.” Sadie paced and looked at her watch. “Shit. We have to go if we want to try to catch this convoy.”
    “She’s secure, right?” Theo asked Halena.
    “Of course. No one can break out of that space, but I don’t want her here alone.”
    “I’ll stay,” Justin said. “She’s my responsibility.”
    “No. We need you with us. She’ll stay here on lockdown. Halena, do you have a trusted human who can watch her?”
    “No.”
    “Then we have no choice but to leave her.” Theo stomped forward to the stairwell that led upstairs. “We’ll figure out what is going on when we get back.”
    Justin caught up to Theo. “I’m