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My hand flattened across a pectoral. Did he just growl?
“Sorry,” I added, snatching my hand back and curling it under my chin. “You just feel good.”
A strangled laugh rumbled from him. “More like torture. Think I’d prefer the rack.” He took my wrist gently and nipped the fleshy part of my palm, teeth pinching.
“Ouch!”
He kissed where he’d bitten, trailing hot kisses along the inside of my wrist. I made a little moan.
He rolled me onto my back and pressed his body into mine. Even with the goose-down between us, I could feel the hardness of his erection and the source of the aforementioned torture. Quite a sizeable torture device, I might add. My mouth went dry.
“Oh.”
“Yes.” He chuckled. “Oh.”
“Jude, do you think we, I mean, will we ever be rid of Danté?”
“Yes,” came the immediate, terse reply. “Why do you ask?”
“Well, I was hoping, wondering if, when—”
“Genevieve, relax and tell me what you’re thinking.”
I blew out a puff of exasperation, thankful the darkness hid the blush rising into my cheeks. It certainly did make me brave, because I said exactly what I was wondering and never would have done such a thing by the light of day.
“When will we get to make love?”
The man looming above me froze so still I’d have thought he wasn’t there were it not for the comforting weight of him on top of me. As usual, my heart hammered an erratic beat. He didn’t move, didn’t speak.
“Jude?”
“When all the threats are dead or your power outweighs theirs.”
“You’re going to kill all of the demon princes? All seven?” My tone was flat and disbelieving.
“Yes. Or you’ll help me.”
“Me?”
“Once you come into your full power, you’ll be stronger than any creature on this earth.”
I laughed. It seemed so ludicrous. Who was I but a young student from New Orleans? Apparently, fate had much more planned for me. It was all still so surreal.
“So,” I heaved a sigh, “that means we will get to have sex, hopefully, soonish.”
His head fell forward with a choked half laugh, face nuzzling into my neck and hair.
“Why are you laughing? You want to, right? You told me last night—”
“Woman, you undo me,” he whispered in a way that made goose bumps rise all over. “The things I want to do to your beautiful body would condemn me to the most everlasting, deepest pit in hell. Do I want to?Christ, you have no idea.”
He started nibbling my neck slowly. I lifted my chin to give him better access, melting under his hot mouth.
“Yes, I want you,” he said, brushing his lips across mine in a brief caress, teasing me, not diving in. He lifted a bare inch. A glimmer of amber eyes pierced through the dark. “I want you in my arms. I want you in my bed. I want to bury myself deep inside you and feel you shatter beneath me, again and again. I want you daily, nightly, repeatedly, constantly, forever. And when I know it’s safe to take you, you’d best be ready. If you’re not, you’d better run and hide, because it will take a legion of angels and demons to keep me off of you. Even then, you won’t stand a chance.”
Holy shit!I think my heart just stopped. A silver streak of panic shot through me, but desire and anticipation quickly overpowered that shrinking emotion.
“Oh,” I finally managed to say in all my magnanimous eloquence.
