Devi gave him a coy smile, and long, straight hair fell over one of her dark eyes. “Don’t I always?”

He laughed again. “Do you ever?”

She shrugged and pouted, and wet hair brushed the curve of her backside, over her towel. “What can I say? I don’t like to share.” Devi pulled Maddock toward the bathroom. “Let’s get you cleaned up.” She plucked his damp T-shirt away from his chest, then let it go. “Finn got you all sweaty.”

“Sorry about this, Nina.” Maddock hung back while Devi tugged on his arm. “I’m sure Finn didn’t mean to tell you like this.” He glanced up at Reese. “Right?”

Reese nodded. Then he blinked Finn’s green eyes.

The bathroom door closed behind Devi and Maddock, and pipes groaned within the walls when they turned on the shower. I should have been fundamentally shocked by the bold implication of that sound, but I was too busy being fundamentally confused about everything else.

I turned to Reese, and my vision cleared a little as the tears standing in my eyes fell. “You’re Finn now?” He nodded and his mouth opened. But then it closed, as if words had abandoned him. “Are you still Reese?”

Another nod. “The body is Reese. Always was, always will be, if I have anything to say about it. But the rest is me. At the moment.”

“Can he…Can Reese…see me?”

“No.” Finn ran one hand through Reese’s light brown hair. “He’s still in here, but he’s kind of…asleep. He can’t see or hear any of this.”

“I…” There were too many questions to ask. I didn’t know where to start. Then suddenly I did. “Are you a demon?”

“No.” He shook Reese’s head emphatically, but kept his distance from me, as he had in the alley behind the Grab-n-Go almost twenty-four hours earlier. As if he were afraid I’d back away if he came closer.

“But you’re possessing someone else’s body. How can you be sure you’re not a demon?”

He sat on the arm of an overstuffed chair against the wall shared by the small kitchen. “Are you a demon?”

“Of course not!”

Reese’s brows rose over Finn’s eyes. “How do you know?”

I crossed my arms over my chest and clung to the righteous anger building inside me, because that was infinitely better than confusion. “I know because I’m not evil, and I can’t possess people, and I don’t come from hell, and I’m not thousands of years old!”