He bit back a smile. “I’ve, uh, moved into Stavros' room at the cottage, so mine is empty. You’re welcome to it if you’d like.”
I nearly choked on my wine. “What, me? Live in the priest house with all of you?”
“It’s just an offer.” He shrugged. “I don’t know where you’ve been crashing since being here, but if you want privacy and a bed, it’s there.”
Like Deyva, I didn’t need to sleep, but was able to. I’d spent most of my time checking the gate. When feeling drained, I’d hover around the couples who exuded the most love, like Heather and Jeff. Although it had increasingly become the priests, all starry-eyed for their succubus.
That house would be filled with love. Sure I’d be in a constant state of blue-balls listening to their fucking, but I’d never be drained of holy light. And I’d need all the power I could get if we were taking on the four Hellish armies closing in on us.
I had to focus on what was important. And for once, me being the only one not getting laid was not it.
“Thank you, Zach,” I said sincerely. “I’ll be happy to take your room.”
I circled over Bethel, reassured by the tidy streets, the faint glow from a handful of windows, the soft voices of the stragglers leaving the diner and heading home for the night. I swooped down, wings stretching back behind me, and turned for the churchyard, nearly smacking into a stained glass window when I noticed the figure waiting for me in front of the priest house.
Deyva. Her lips looked swollen and her hair was damp, eyes that freshly-fucked, glowing green of hers.
“You’re not sneaking out again? Because I am not above reporting you to Kais in exchange for getting to watch him defile you,” I said, landing gently on my feet in front of her.
“Pretty sure I just got done defiling him,” she said. She bit down on that plump bottom lip and looked up at me from under her lashes. “Is...Kimaris out there yet?”
I shook my head, stepping toward her, pleased when she didn’t tense up. “Haven’t seen any hint of him yet, but they did replace the army we took out.”
Deyva snorted and cocked her hip. “Pretty sure that was all you, Az.”
I tried to resist the pride that rose up in me, but it was always my weakest spot. “Ah, well. All in an angel’s duty.”
“Mhm...you look a little tired though,” Deyva said softly, head tipping up and down to examine me.
Why was I starting to feel like I was being cornered by a predator, and why was my cock such a big fan of the feeling?
“I’ll be fine. Little bit of rest as Stav and Zach do their whole bedtime fondling routine and I should be good to go again.”
Deyva grinned and then reached out between us, one delicate hand hovering in offering. “Come on. I think I can do you one better,” she said.
I blinked at her hand. She was all stuffed full of good feelings lately. But was she really offering to share it with me again?
“Shouldn’t you be saving up?” I asked. I’d been unexpectedly gutted at the sight of Deyva pinned beneath Gamaeron’s hoof, of her silky blue blood coating her shoulder. It was difficult to resist the intensely delicious offering she presented, but I didn’t want to accept if it risked her own safety if we were suddenly attacked.
“Azariah,” she said slowly, my name all rounded and husky. “Come inside with me.”
Oh.
It seemed a little too good to be true.
But I was not the kind of angel that resisted that sort of thing. Michael was the one with the holy staff up his ass, not me. I gave Deyva my hand, following her into the house, listening to the soft creaks upstairs from the bathroom, one of the bedrooms. Deyva led me up to the second story and right to Zach’s room...now mine.
“You’ve got big talk, angel boy. But I wanna see your best cuddle game,” Deyva said, glancing over her shoulder at me with a devilish smile.
It wasn’t a ‘dick me down, please, Az,’ but I was sure as hell gonna take what I could get. Without waiting another second, I scooped Deyva up off her feet, clamping her against my chest and diving for the bed with a quick flap of my wings for speed.
“Oof!”
Deyva landed on the mattress on her back with me on top of her, my knees squeezing the outside of