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Aegis doctors hadn’t been able to administer any medications, since oral drugs came back up within seconds, and no needles could penetrate her skin. Apparently, the baby wanted no part of modern medicine.

The physicians and her fellow Elders had decided that bed rest and a complete block of upsetting news was the best thing for Regan and the baby, so Regan had been kept in the dark about the goings-on in the world. Oh, she caught snippets here and there, but for the most part, everyone had been careful to not say much.

“Suzi?” Regan prompted. “The baby could be born today and be fine. I was planning to talk to the Elders in the morning so I can get back into the swing of things. So tell me what’s going on.”

Suzi nodded. “It’s not just Australia. You know about Iceland and New Zealand, but over the last couple of months, the world has lost almost all island nations. Greenland still stands—we figure that’s because it’s where Thanatos lives. And Great Britain has been repelling demons with help from Europe. But…” She inhaled a shaky breath, and Regan swore her heart stopped beating. “Taiwan is lost. Madagascar, part of Norway, much of Malaysia. And last week, Japan fell under the control of Pestilence’s forces.”

“Oh, my God,” Regan rasped. “What else?”

“Demons are moving across Africa at an alarming rate, and we’re getting reports of massive attacks in Canada, Alaska, and dozens of regions in Asia.”

Water sloshed onto Regan’s hand, and she had to grip her glass with both hands to keep it from shaking. “What do the Elders say about this?”

“According to their calculations, which have been confirmed by the R-XR… the entire planet will be overrun by demons within a month. They think… they think Pestilence is trying to time his takeover with the baby’s birth.”

The glass in Regan’s hand shattered.

The Aegis had been trying to save the world with this baby, but it was looking like instead, they may have doomed it.

Two Weeks Later…

The only thing worse than being paralyzed and trapped inside your own skull, unable to move or speak, was being kept like that by your own brother and sister.

For eight and a half endless, insanity-inducing months, Thanatos, fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse, had been kept in a bed with nothing but a TV for company. Well, he had a hellhound lying next to him twenty-four seven, but only to bite him if the paralyzing hellhound saliva his brother and sister injected him with wore off. And sure, his sister, Limos, third Horseman, and Ares, second Horseman, hung out with him, but Ares wasn’t all that talkative.

Limos was a chatterbox, but Than didn’t really give a shit about what color nail polish she’d put on that morning or how she and her husband, a human named Arik, were planning a European honeymoon after the threat of Apocalypse was over.

And seriously, a honeymoon? Wasn’t it a little late for that? And it wasn’t as if Limos didn’t live on an island paradise anyway, so every freaking day was a honeymoon for them.

Bitter much, Than-boy?

Yeah, there might be some jealousy there. Because as sick as it sounded, the one thing that had kept Than sane over the thousands of years he’d been alive was the fact that his brothers and sister were as alone as he was. But now Ares and Limos were both married and happy, and he was left paralyzed, miserable, and ripping a massive hatred for the female who’d put him here.

Regan.

Ever since he’d been cursed to be the Horseman who was doomed to become Death when his Seal broke, he’d believed that his Seal was his virginity. He’d guarded his dick like it was the freaking Hope diamond. He might have been an unpinned grenade ready to blow with sexual need, but dammit, he’d kept himself all virginal and shit.

Until Regan came along, with her seductive body, her devious plot, and her drugged wine. She’d managed to get him naked, get him immobilized, and get him off. The why of it still wasn’t clear, since not once, in all of Limos’s and Ares’s ramblings, had they brought up the Aegis Guardian. And the fact that she was a Guardian, one of the human warriors