giving me a breathtaking view of his taut ass in motion.
I exhaled roughly, my chest heaving, and slid down the doorjamb until my butt hit the floor. The movement made the firm material of my jeans press against my swollen, throbbing, intimate flesh, and I gasped at the tingles of need shooting outward from that oversensitive spot.
The sound of running water came from behind the closed door to the bathroom.
Rubbing my face with both hands, I tried to sort my thoughts. Or, you know, have any thoughts at all instead of just primitive urges.
The desire wreaking havoc on my system and insistently pulsing in my clit demanded relief, and it would be oh-so-easy to get up and walk through that door and let that hunk of demon take care of my need.
But I also knew that if I did join him, I’d have him inside me in a matter of minutes. I pursed my lips and squinted. Okay, more like seconds.
And as much as I was thirsting right now, I wasn’t sure I was ready. There was that pertinacious part of my mind reminding me that only a few hours ago, I’d been ready to strangle the fuck out of him…because he’d consistently treated me as negligible.
But now he’d apparently changed his mind, and I didn’t quite know what to do with his sudden attention. What to think of his overt interest, how to handle that much…Azazel.
Not to mention that crossing this line with him had quite a few implications. This wasn’t the same as scratching an itch with a guy I’d swiped right on and could walk away from the next morning. Things could get really, really messy here.
All this, and more, kept me sitting on the floor with unfulfilled need and the desperate wish to be able to summon objects like my confounding demon husband could. I’d have had my trusted electric friend in hand minutes ago and taken the edge off in no time.
I startled at the sound of the door opening. Azazel strolled out of the bathroom, rubbing his hair with a towel, steam fogging the air behind him. He was still gloriously, temptingly naked, and I averted my eyes as I scrambled to a stand, lest the sinfully seductive visual test my resolve.
I made to hurry past him when he blocked my path with one arm against the doorway to the bathroom. My breath came out as half wheeze, half choked-off groan. His body heat hummed against my skin even with a few inches separating us.
“I think you might need this,” he said silkily, and pressed something in my hand.
I recognized it before glancing down—I’d held this many a time, after all, my palm and fingers intimately familiar with its shape and size.
“Just how far,” I managed to get out, “does the range of my ‘stray thoughts’ go?”
“A few feet. Not far enough for me to pick them up from the bathroom.” Leaning down, he brushed his lips over my ear and muttered, “But I’m quite pleased I guessed right.”
He removed his arm blockade and walked past me. Face aflame, I fled into the bathroom, slamming the door behind me. My hand tightened around the vibrator.
Welp, I wasn’t one to waste an opportunity.
That thing was waterproof for a reason.
Chapter 11
Ten minutes, one shower, and a satisfying orgasm later, I walked back into the bedroom, the huge fluffy towel securely wrapped around my heated body.
Azazel—now fully dressed in what seemed to be fighting leathers, and damn if that didn’t make him even hotter—looked up from his lounging position on one of the armchairs in the corner of the bedroom. His eyes flashed, raking me from head to toe, and one corner of his mouth curved up.
Wait, I knew that look. He was up to somethi—
He raised his right hand, palm up, index finger extended as if about to beckon me to him...and a pair of lace panties materialized, dangling daintily from said beckoning finger.
He crooked it. The panties swayed with the motion.
I scoffed. “Really?”
A quick once-over of the room confirmed my suspicion—he hadn’t yet summoned a new set of clothes.
“Unless you’d like to go without again?” He appeared far too delighted at the idea.
Yeah, right.
I marched up to him and snatched the panties from his finger. And because my spiteful streak was back in full force, instead of retreating to the bathroom, I proceeded to step into the pair right there in front of him and pulled them up underneath the towel without revealing any extra