She made it almost to her car. Alex had been about to pull open the door to her car door when she feels it in her mind. When she can feel the words rather than being able to hear them. They're cold, and if Alex had any remaining doubt about him being a demon it was gone now.

"I told you!" Alex's voice is loud and sharp. "To stop treating me like I was your pet. I'm not!" And there was everything else about that whole not really having a choice in this part as well, but Alex isn't going to try and explain that by shouting in his driveway.

Even if people wouldn't hear them from the road or the other houses. If they hadn't heard them in the forest of Richard's backyard then they wouldn't be able to hear them now. But just in case. It wasn't like talking about how he was a demon would help with Alex's sanity if it came down to that.

"Stop ordering me around. I'm not your pet and I'm not your property and I'm not your first concubine or whatever."