and drag him in, shutting the door behind us.
“I have this power,” I start. “I can be in two places at once, unfortunately in one of those places I have no powers. That’s what you saw last night. I was on the heels of the Night Mare and got cornered.” I blink as I realize that I did in fact have some power to get down there in the first place. Maybe I used it all up, like it’s in reserve and flaming out uses it all? I dunno, something to think about another time. “I can assure you that I will never be in that position again and I can also assure you every Demon that was down there will be eradicated, including your minion.”
“I would expect nothing less,” he mutters. “He is imprisoned, ready for you to exact your punishment when you are ready.”
“I should point out that you are now aware of this predicament that I found myself in.” I wait for his response.
He lifts his chin and takes it. “Do with me what you will,” he states.
My heart thumps. Oh, I have every intention of doing all sorts of things with him but killing him isn’t one of them.
“How come I have never seen you before?” I ask him.
He gives me a surprised look. “We usually keep to our section of Hell.”
“Noted, but I’ve met most of the Demon leaders. Why not you?”
“We keep to ourselves,” he says again, almost shyly.
Oh, I’m falling deeply in like with this male. He’s the type of creature that I could see myself with down the line.
My eyes go wide as I stare at him. I don’t know where that thought came from.
“Thank you for coming to me today,” I murmur seductively, inching closer to him. He doesn’t back away, but he does get a wary look on his face. I cool it immediately. If I pounce on him now, he will reject me, and I couldn’t stand the humiliation of that. “I will let you know when I’m ready to dole out the punishment.”
He nods, his eyes searching mine at my abrupt change of tone.
Dammit. I read that all wrong. If I’d jumped on him, I’d probably be getting a pussy full of rock-hard marble right now. I draw in a breath as he will literally be rock-hard. I shiver, my nipples puckering, but the moment has gone.
“I’ll be waiting,” he says and then with a final bow, he goes.
“Oh my,” I whisper, fanning myself with my hand. He is one hot Demon.
But speaking of hot Demons, I need to find Drescal. I want some nice consensual fucking to occur in the next few minutes and he seems the best choice out of…well…none.
That thought depresses me more than I’d like, but there is no way in Hell I’m going to Elijah. He will only agitate me further, and any other Demon that would have sufficed yesterday, just doesn’t make the grade today. My standards are rising, and it worries me. I may never find a male that will satisfy me, so I’m going to take a leaf out of my mother’s book and find a few. The sexy Incubus seems to care about me and not just about screwing me, but I know that I can’t accept him screwing other women anymore. One last fuck and then I have to end it. I want to get serious about finding, I gulp, love. Or something akin to it, anyway.
I decide that it is something that I can discuss with Gregory later when I go back to see him. Then I’m going to find out what he writes about me in those books of his. I chew my lip as the thought excites me, but it also worries me on a level that confuses me. I don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks of me.
Except now I do, and he is a human no less.
“Oh, the shame of it,” I murmur and head out for one last Hell-shattering fuck before I must make my way to Inbound and see what delights Roberta has managed to recycle for me in the last couple of days, and ask her to round up all of the Demons, apart from the Serpent Demon, who were in the sin bin last night. I want them thrown in prison until I decide how best to handle their eradication.
12
Annabelle
I find Drescal scowling at his trainees in the teaching room. His face doesn’t lighten when he sees me, in