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manifest this way.”
    “A god? A god ?” Okay, she sounded a little hysterical, but she could be forgiven for that, right?
    “Well, that’s what the picture shows where the book falls open. Cernuous, the horned god.”
    “But I didn’t do anything bad. I swear.”
    “Of course not.” Liam reached out and placed a hand over one of hers. “That’s a summoning book, though, and sometimes they get tricky.”
    She grabbed on to Liam’s hand, heat flooding her body, making her wet and achy. His hand was surprisingly callused, all male, hot and huge, engulfing hers.
    She could hear Elijah and Nova talking, but it didn’t matter, the sound was distant. Her heart thumped, and Liam stared into her eyes, his lips parted.
    “Buddy. Hey! Wake up!”
    Shiloh was going to hurt someone.
    Liam looked at Elijah, letting her hand go. “Sorry. What?”
    “You were lost for a second.” Elijah’s eyebrow arched.
    “Oh.” Liam’s freckles filled in, his flush adorable. She wanted to kiss his pink cheeks.
    “Yeah. Something is ramping the whole damn area up.”
    “Definitely.” Nova gave her an ironic glance, then rolled her eyes.
    “I’m sorry. Maybe I should go. You’ll lock up, right Nova? Auntie would kill me if we didn’t.”
    “No.” Nova was the one to grab her hand this time, her friend giving her a chuckle and a real smile. “No, I’m just being a jealous butthead. All this testosterone and none for me. I think this is important, though, and I’m not mad at you, honey.”
    Both men were suddenly very interested in their coffee.
    “I’m just… I don’t know what I did.” And where the fuck were the tears coming from? She wasn’t a crier. At all.
    “Oh, Shi.” It was Nova who stood and came to hug her. “Has anyone asked Bella about the book?”
    “She told me once all the really old books were gifts from some friend of her lover’s,” Shiloh said.
    Elijah pursed his lips. “Is her lover still around?”
    Shiloh shook her head. “No. No, she disappeared. Just went out one day and never came back.”
    The men looked at each other, and Liam nodded, his expression grim. “You didn’t do anything wrong, Shiloh, but we definitely need to try to close whatever door has opened.”
    “How?” The guys looked at each other again. Shiloh blew out a frustrated breath. “Will someone just talk to me?”
    Elijah’s shoulders were up around his ears. “Okay, what do we know? Something with a shitload of sexual energy is out there. We know it has something to do with that book.”
    “We know that Shiloh seems to be at the center of a lot of it because she rediscovered the book.” Liam nodded.
    “We know that, at least so far, when sexual energy is raised there are physical responses.”
    “Well, duh.” Shiloh snorted, crossing her arms over her still-hard nipples.
    “I meant the windows rattling,” Elijah said.
    “Like the frickin’ wind and hoof beats,” Nova agreed.
    “The hoof prints in the water. I saw them that day at the pool, on the coping,” Shiloh had to add.
    “Yeah. That was uncool,” Nova said.
    “Wait.” Elijah was the one to touch her hand now. “It left actual prints?”
    “Yeah. I thought it was going to drown me. I was freaking out.” Goose bumps broke out all over Shiloh’s skin, nausea in her belly when she remembered how scared she’d been.
    “That’s pretty serious.” Liam scowled too. “Wind and other manifestations are one thing. Physical signs such as prints can mean a demon.”
    “I never saw him. I just heard Shi calling for me,” Nova said.
    “I never saw a man or a goat or anything. Not at the pool.” Shiloh bit her lip. “So it could be an illusion, I guess.”
    “But we both saw the tracks, Shi. Both of us.” Nova grabbed her hand. “I believe you.”
    “Thanks. I just—a demon? That’s scary, not sexy.”
    “Yeah. Yeah, exactly.” Liam leaned forward, hands on the table. “I mean, demons can do all sorts of things, include increase