Hell's Belle - Eve Newton Page 0,26

fact, it goes darker.

The three newbies turn to look, their faces going brighter as they see me.

I give them a serene smile which I turn on to Drescal as I saunter forward.

“What do you want, my Queen?” he asks.

“That’s not a very nice greeting now, is it?”

“Neither was yours last night,” he responds.

“Touché,” I murmur. “I’m here to fix that. Sort of.”

“Sort of?” he scoffs. “I’d tell you to get fucked, but we all know that you would and that you’d enjoy it.”

I snicker as he struggles to keep the smile off his face. The three newbies are looking at him in horror that he could speak to me that way, but honestly, I like it from him. I like him. But I can’t get past what he does for my Kingdom. Not anymore.

“Can we talk?” he asks me quietly.

“Yes,” I say with a sigh.

“Don’t move, I’ll be right back. Think about the ways in which you can please a woman without thinking about yourselves,” he adds to the newbies.

They nod eagerly and he grips my elbow, leading me into a smaller room just off this one.

His eyes rake down my body, taking in the purple leather dress. “You look ravishing,” he murmurs.

“Thanks,” I whisper, stepping closer to him. “So do you.” I run my hands up his black duster then grip the lapels tightly to drag him nearer.

“Wait,” he says. “If we kiss, I will forget what I want to say.” He pushes me gently away from him, annoying me a bit. He actually wants to talk. I thought that was just an excuse to get me in here.

“Let me get this out before you say anything,” he says before I can say another word.

“Okay,” I say anyway.

“Last night, I realized something,” he says and then starts to pace.

I watch him and rest my hand on the table that’s in here with two uncomfortable looking chairs.

“I was in my room, on my bed and I…felt something. Something that I’ve never felt before. It was a pull, a hard tug on my heart and I knew instantly that it was you. I knew that you needed me. I don’t know how it happened or why, just that it did. I was drawn to you and I know, in spite of what you say, that I saved you from something. You were afraid, Anna, and even though I wish you would tell me why, you don’t have to. I’m making that clear. I have no expectations of you but having that feeling and knowing that we are connected somehow, forced me to make a decision that has been a long time coming. I’m retiring, Anna. Ever since I first met you, the work just hasn’t been the same. My heart isn’t in it. All I think about when I’m with those females is you. I can’t do it anymore. I don’t want to do it anymore. I want to be with you and I also know that this is the only way that you will even consider what I’m asking of you.”

I blink at him. “You are my best Incubus. You can’t retire,” I blurt out so that I don’t say something else I might regret later. He has cornered me with my own thoughts about his job. He knows me too damn well. Fucker.

“I can and I will, for you, for us. I will still teach,” he adds dismissively, waving his hand in the direction of the newbies, “but I will no longer be on Earth screwing other women. I only want to be with you.”

“How do you know that?” I shriek at him, suddenly panicking. I was prepared to end this after one last fuck. I came here to tell him that I couldn’t be with him anymore, that I needed something he couldn’t give me. Now he’s telling me that he can, that he wants to.

Damn him!

“Know what?” he asks confused.

“Know that you only want me!” I exclaim. “You were made to be a Demon who screws around. It’s not just your job, it’s your whole reason for being!”

“Your mother quit, so can I,” he states, stopping my tirade dead in its tracks.

“That’s not fair,” I say quietly. “She and my father were in love and she had two other men to keep her Seductress satisfied.”

“I am in love with you,” he says just as quietly. “I only want you.”

“I don’t know if only one male can satisfy me!” I shriek again.

“So have two other men, three, four!