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Meaning, he hadn’t prepared for us to go in without knowing what I could or couldn’t do. Great. Guess I shouldn’t expect anything less with my terrible luck these days.
“Should you only consume one,”Nova had continued, eyes dancing across the horizon, “there is a chance that you and I will not be powerful enough to defeat Lucifer even with her Sworn Three gone.”
“So, get both of their blood?”I’d surmised out loud, not a fan of taking anyone’s blood but ready to do what it took to bring the bad bitch down.“Let’s hope my power isn’t good enough to wipe out a demon like Mayhem with one hit.”
I let my eyes pan the area, the worst-case scenario realized with one look. “Shit.”
20
Boarding the Beef Bus
WATER SOAKED MY NAKED BODY, washing away the ash and dried blood that coated my skin. I let the warm spray soothe my eyes and soul. Steam filled the large luxury shower Nova had in his rich-person house, but I was grateful for the escape.
I sensed movement in the room, and I looked over my shoulder to where a shadowy figure loomed. Sliding hands over my wet hair as if I couldn’t be bothered to greet him in my usual snarky way, I continued to wash and didn’t call out.
The steam and thick glass distorted Nova’s body, but I would know that gorgeous shape anywhere. Especially when his enchanting green-eyed gaze fixed to mine through a thick cloud of white, taunting me to say something smart.
It was only in these moments where the man showed his true demon face, and it always made me ready to board the beef bus as I cleverly referred to it. Aidan used to hate it when I called it that, so I started to say it just to fuck with him, and it quickly became our inside joke.
I miss that jerk.
Turning my face away, I let the water stream over me again and arched my neck into the warm spray. The soft click of the shower door echoed before Nova hovered behind me, silky-soft hands smoothing down my shoulders and arms. The desire to give in was always so strong whenever he touched me, but flashes of Aidan and Reese’s smiles still plagued my thoughts, making it difficult to think of anything else.
In brutal clarity, the memory of Reese’s head falling from her neck and Aidan’s decaying body laying over the ground came into my head, and I sucked in a grieving breath. Then every face of the Shadow Stalkers appeared in my mind’s eye, one after another, a reminder I’d lost so many in such a short period of time.
Nova’s mouth traced the line of my shoulder and his hands gripped my taut stomach, bring our bodies flush against each other. “You fought valiantly tonight, love.” His voice was entreating and deeply pained. “Reese told me only days ago that meeting you renewed her faith in the future, and that she’d gladly die to make sure that future was a foregone conclusion.”
I closed my eyes, fighting away another onset of emotion—the very thing I’d convinced myself I wasn’t capable of feeling anymore.
It was like being right back in that place I’d been before escaping my foster father’s disgusting reach, riddled with feelings I couldn’t get any control over. I’d created Lady the day I fled that place of pain and sorrow, and it wasn’t until now that I realized I’d only pushed everything that occurred down, not overcome it at all. I was still the weak girl who pretended she was strong, who was immediately crippled by emotion the second it took hold.
A large hand caressed the place where the voodoo necklace had disappeared earlier that night, and then I was turned around and pressed against the cold stone wall. Cradling my jaw with tender hands, the beautiful dream demon stared into my eyes, searching for something—waiting for me to say anything. And when I didn’t, he kissed me violently, insistently, desperately. Like he worried I’d disappear the same way Reese had, in a cloud of fire and ash.
I gripped his wrists and sunk into the desperate kiss, a little too eager for the distraction. It was natural to let Nova set the pace, though I sometimes took control. But tonight I was glad that the devious fallen angel knew just how to get the mood going.
With my wrists pinned above me, I wrapped my legs around Nova’s waist and his body kept me aloft. I bit his lower lip hard enough to draw blood, and then licked it away the second his delicious taste reached my mouth. His hot length naturally found its way inside of me—fuck foreplay—and I sunk down onto his rock-hard cock with a small rolling thrust of my hips.
“Lady…” he whispered my name like a prayer, and I ignored how it nagged at an emotion inside of me I refused to let surface. “You’re so tight tonight.”
My breathing suffered under the verbal assault, and I swiveled my hips in revenge, expertly dragging out wanting groans from him.
Nova’s dark hair painted his forehead, wet with the steady stream of water and concealing his eyes briefly. His swollen lips, still red with blood, were parted and his luminous green-red gaze lifted to capture mine.
Time seemed to slow to a crawl as we stared at each other, sensuously joined at the waist. Nova opened his mouth, but then his jaw clenched and the demon appeared to internally struggle with something for a second.
Normally, I’d give the asshole a hard time about it, but something about the way he looked at me made me keep my big mouth shut and wait.
Wait with bated breath.
His eyelashes fluttered, then he drove into me suddenly. Arms no longer bound above my head, I clung to him. My nails left glaring red paths across his back when delicious pleasure flooded from where we were connected.
Nova pressed his face into my neck, sinking his fangs into me, and I gasped, the sound loud in my ears thanks to this godforsaken echo chamber. His hips smacked into mine without mercy, and I lost all sense of time as the demon continued to lap up all the blood pouring from the puncture wounds on my neck. When Nova wiped the wound clean with his tongue, his hand came around my throat and he quickened the pace.
For minutes, the only sound in my ears was the hurried smacking of his hips colliding with mine. It didn’t take long for Nova to take me over the edge. It came swift and fast, rolling waves holding my body hostage for nearly a minute. Honestly, trapped in that kind of pleasure for a minute was both Heaven and Hell with his vigorous thrusts never letting up.
The demon fucked me harder with every breath, despite knowing I was overly sensitive after my orgasm. His fingers pushed past my slightly parted lips, sensuously toying with my tongue, and I sucked and bit each digit the way the fallen angel liked.
Nova’s irises no longer had a single drop of green in them by the time he opened his eyes again, and his entire body tautened to the point of emulating stone. A second later, Nova came, hips locking against mine for a heartbeat before retreating.
