The Lure of the Devil (The Demons' Muse #4) - Auryn Hadley Page 0,140

my waist so he could press his mouth beside my ear. "You planned that, didn't you?" He teased.

I just lifted my drink to my lips and splashed back a long swallow. "You know they say you only get to be young and dumb once, right? I'm starting to realize that that's not exactly how it works. Keep up, Luke. I'm starting to feel kinda naughty."

"Mm," he purred in my ear. "I think I may have gotten the best assignment of the night."

32

Lucifer

Somewhere along the way, I lost track of the letters outside of each of these fraternity houses. It didn't matter. They weren't what I was looking at. Sia had my complete attention. It wasn't just that she was beautiful - and she definitely was that. Mostly, it was that she acted like she trusted me completely. When we’d first left the house, she'd been a little nervous and I'd assumed it had something to do with our last outing alone.

The time she'd died.

Knowing she was immortal may have been the only thing keeping me from showing my paranoia. Every time she walked away from me to talk to some guy, my heart hung in my chest. Mine! I wasn't supposed to care about these sorts of things. So what if she was gorgeous? It didn't matter that every inch of her body was on display, or that all the men in here were looking at her. Granted, they had plenty to look at. I also knew exactly where she was going tonight.

Maybe not which bedroom, but that didn't really matter. The only thing that did was that when all this was over, she could actually make it there. To whichever one of the bedrooms she chose. Because if any angel wanted to touch her, he'd have to come through me first. This time, I was ready.

After we made our lap through the third house on the block, I decided it was time to head to the main event. We had been wandering this area long enough that any angels watching wouldn't suspect us. She and I were just another typical college couple, trying to get a few free drinks and have a good time on a Friday night. One of the hundreds on the street. And yet all of them ended up heading towards Delta Phi.

It wasn't the biggest house on the block, but it was the most obvious. On the lawn, someone had built a pair of giant Greek letters and covered them in lights. Behind those, not only the porch, but all of the upstairs windows of the house were bright and open. The pull to head that way was almost magnetic, so I hooked my arm around Sia's waist, and joined the flow.

We stepped off the sidewalk and into their yard, and I felt a shiver wash over my skin. Apparently, so did Sia. "Wards?" she asked.

"Yeah," I told her. "I'm not sure what they’re for, though. Could be demons, could be thieves, or any number of things. Clearly, it's not stopping us from coming in."

No, they had a second line of defense for that. Hanging out beside the main door was a pair of bleached-looking men. Those were malakim, the warrior choir of angels. They weren't important enough to truly be of value, so they were often sacrificed so the seraphim and archangels could be protected. The only question was how we were going to get around them.

In the end, we didn’t need to. A group of girls in front of us paused to flirt with them and both of the angels were completely distracted. I simply looked the other way, and Sia just kept walking. As she passed over the threshold, I felt another of those shivers that indicated a second layer of wards.

"Please tell me you felt that?" I asked, pressing up behind her to make sure she heard me.

Looking back over her shoulder, Sia gave me a devious little smirk. "You do realize that there are so many ways I can answer that, right?"

"Pumpkin, if we were talking about what you wish we were talking about, there'd be no question about feeling it." And just to prove my point, I pressed my hips up against her ass.

Without hesitation, she slipped her arm between us and grabbed a handful of my dick. I wasn't quite sure whether I should gasp or laugh. This was not at all the way I'd expected her to respond to that. Then there was little problem of the