Enki Zakanin just wants peace and quiet. He’s finished his objective, and on the trip back again to the Kordolian Fleet Place, he’d prefer to be left only so he can manage the literal demon inside his head. Alone.

So when a strange distress call breaks the silence, his first instinct is to ignore the signal. Why would anyone be foolish more than enough to broadcast an open up sign in the Ninth?

I am Layla dela Cruz. I need your help.

A human being? What in Kaiin’s Hells can be she accomplishing this far into Sector Nine? Now, somehow, he must go and obtain her. In the end, he’s provided her his term.

Contains mature themes.