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tried to lead her, she shook her head in denial and literally dragged her feet, slowing them down. “What are you?”
    “The only one in this realm on your side. Come with me or they will kill you.”
    He saw the hesitation in her eyes an instant before she nodded. His only thought to put as much distance between him and his former ally as he could, he ran toward a door and threw it open.
    Kateri slowed again as she saw the burning room they needed to cross. Giving him a look that said she thought he was insane, she refused to go into it.
    Ren fought down his irritation. Unlike him, she wasn’t used to demon tricks and traps. “It’s an illusion.”
    This time her gaze called him a liar.
    “Trust me.”
    “Why should I?”
    He deserved her doubt. After his past, he wasn’t entitled to anything except contempt and disdain. Still, it stung on numerous levels. “You want to live?”
    Her gaze scorched him with a trust he’d never seen in any woman’s eyes before. “Yes, I do. So please, don’t be lying to me. I don’t have much to live for, but I definitely don’t want to die tonight.” Those words were whispered as she stepped forward and retook his hand.
    Hoping, praying he was right about it being an illusion, Ren pulled her into the flames. For the merest instant, he thought he’d misjudged the situation. But as they crossed the burning room and he recognized the stench of this hell, he knew what had happened.
    Coyote had breached this first gate and sucked them into it. Somehow his brother had opened the doorway to Hi’hinya and released Kyatel. Or worse, Coyote had broken Choo Co La Tah and Choo had done it for him.
    Either way, the gate for Hi’hinya was open and it was bad for all of them.
    Not wanting to consider what it would take to force Choo’s hand to do this, Ren used his telekinesis to slam the door shut and seal it behind them before Kyatel came through. They wouldn’t have long and he wasn’t exactly the fiend of the month around here. No doubt there were wanted posters for him everywhere. Ones that held a huge bounty. If a demon could capture him and take him to the Grizzly, they would be rewarded beyond measure. There was nothing in the universe the Grizzly Spirit wanted more than to have Ren back in his custody.
    For that reason, Ren was as much a threat to her as the demons were.
    Maybe he ought to let her go it alone.
    But he knew better. She wouldn’t last long in this first realm of the dead. She had no idea how to fight or avoid them. And at least the demons here weren’t that strong as a rule. Many were nothing more than shadow walkers—demons that straddled the two worlds. The biggest problem with them was that they had no loyalty whatsoever. Ambiguous and capricious in the purest sense of those words, they were as likely to kill someone as to help them.
    If they were really lucky, the shadow walkers wouldn’t care about their presence at all.
    Of course, luck was always one fickle bitch.
    And tonight she seemed to have it in for them.
    Suddenly, the wall to his left exploded, showering them with sheetrock. However, that wasn’t the bad part. The bad came in the form of a herd of demons who were hell-bent to claim his heart, and her life as a bonus.
    Ren let go of the woman so that he could face them.
    Kateri fell away with a gasp as Ren manifested the club she’d seen him use a thousand times in her dreams. And he made use of it like a champion. With the flat end, he swatted them back before slicing them open with the obsidian glass.
    The twisted demons screamed as they went down. Many retreated, but others persisted, climbing over the bodies of the fallen so that they could pursue him.
    Kateri glanced around, seeking some way to help. Unfortunately, she wasn’t sure what exactly they were fighting and she didn’t have a super weapon to combat them with. Going up against them with her bare hands didn’t seem like the smartest thing to do. Rather, she decided not to be a

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