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you? It scares you. And since I don’t think much scares you, that scares me .”
    He leaned against the back side of the maroon chair. “That dark part of my essence you saw is something I call my Soul Shadow. It’s hard to describe because I don’t know what it is. I’ve had it in me for as long as I can remember. When I was a kid, I dreamed of this black creature inside me.” He forced out words he’d never uttered to anyone. “It rears up when I’m enraged or aroused. But I am rarely either, so it’s usually dormant.”
    She shivered. “Like a demon? I know they can possess people.”
    â€œIt’s not a separate entity, and I’m not possessed. It’s as much a part of me as my angel is.”
    She rubbed her arms. “ That’s why you warned me to run away from you that first night we met.”
    â€œA pity you didn’t heed my advice. And no, I’m not blaming you. I came to you, after all.”
    â€œFor the children. Was that real?”
    â€œI never lied to you. And it worked, Kye. Even though it got screwed up, it worked.”
    â€œTell me.”
    He could see her being drawn in, the same as when he’d approached her about the Cobra. “The best thing for you to do is back away from me, from this. Find a way to terminate our bond.”
    â€œLike I can just reach into my bag of tricks and pull out that one. I’ve spent all my time working on developing the bond, not on ways to break it. You brought me into this. I deserve to know.”
    â€œYes, you do, but—”
    A knock sounded on the door. Hayden. Damn. Kye had to go. If only he could have lied to her, told her the story was a farce and that he was the worst kind of man. And part of him was the worst kind of something. But he was too honorable to let her believe he’d tricked her. Or to involve her in this.
    He said, “If you never see me again, maybe the bond will weaken.”
    â€œYou think it’s that easy?” Her laugh was bitter as she shook her head. “You can’t throw people’s lives into chaos, make me care about something, and just move on. There are consequences. Aftershocks. You are a frigging earthquake, Kasabian.”
    He tamped down the way her turmoil rocked through him, how he hated that she’d gotten hurt. “You have to leave now, Kye.”
    More pounding on the door. “Hey, it’s Hayden.”
    Kasabian opened it. “Come in.” He put his hand to Kye’s back and urged her toward the door. “My friend was just leaving.”
    Hayden could no doubt pick up Kye’s seething emotions, enough that he winced.
    Kye dug in her heels and faced Hayden. “I’m Kye, the one who’s life got screwed up because of all this. I’m not leaving until I know what’s going on.” She planted her hands on her hips and shifted her gaze to Kasabian. Oh, yeah, he could feel her stubbornness.
    Kasabian wrestled with the prospect of physically ousting her, but no, it would be wrong and ugly. He introduced them and told Hayden about the Cobra, omitting the Shadow aspect. Thankfully she also kept that to herself.
    Hayden dragged his gaze from Kye to Kasabian. “Get to it. Tell me what you saw. I’ve waited long enough.” The strain of all those years of wondering stretched his voice thin.
    â€œIt was my father who ran the program.”
    Hayden’s eyes widened. “Your father did that to you? To us?”
    Kasabian still couldn’t quite grasp that. “My parents separated when I was four, and my mother kept him out of our lives. All I knew of my father was that his competitive nature drove him to do crazy and dangerous things. Like mortgaging the house to fund an expedition to find Lucifera. I can remember overhearing my mom calling him a glory whore. I thought she said ‘horse.’”
    Many fools had tried to find Lucifera, the legendary island in