Chapter 56

Why he was ashamed of his heritage she had no idea, but now wasn’t the time to prod at those wounds, whether by word or reaction.

So, she didn’t comment on that at all, instead asking, “What does it mean that ‘he’s part Nightmare’?”

“It means he can possess bodies, among other things,” Alpha Rhye rumbled. “A gift from his father’s Nightmare blood, though it’s a rare power, even among their kind. It’s even more unexpected being he’s only half.”

“So, all the Witch who’ve come after me… ”

“The humans, too,” Alpha Rhye added.

“They were all him?” An accusatory, almost unbelieving, gaze shot to the man still on the floor near the far wall.

“We’ll find out soon enough,” Leon murmured, cutting the man a look that promised pain. “But yes, I suspect so.”

Her neighbor, the little boy—demon—who attacked her, the creepy homeless lady by the dumpster outside Brave’s gym, the Virika who tranqed her, the Redcap Leon mentioned scenting at her house, the Harpy at t