If there was anything, other than more demons, that Stephanie didn't want more it was her husband trying to do the hero thing. Part of her understood why he was doing it, but it still hurt. She already felt weirdly distant from him and this only emphasized it.

"Okay. I will." She tried not to look hurt, but she was too emotionally raw to perform well. She rubbed at her eyes. "Tell him to come quickly." She didn't walk away so much as she slunk away, trying to shake her weird and terrible emotions before Marcelo came home.