Whether or not she's the right goddess to pray to, and whether she appreciates me praying for an infernal creature to come back when gods don't particularly like infernal shit, I don't care. I just need this.
Looking to see that Heidi is watching me curiously, I answer the call.
"Is he…" My voice is too gravelly to go on.
"Yep. I'm sure your nanny cams have seen me walking around out there for a couple of hours. My infrared cameras detected something happening back there earlier, and it's onlygetting hotter," Jada's voice confirms. "My guess is full ignition at midnight."
Relief washes over me so hard that I have to lean against Heidi's bathroom counter, swallowing hard. "I'll be there in thirty."
"It'll be good to see you. Safe transporting," she signs off before hanging up.
I look at the woman I've fallen head over heels for, coming to a decision at once because there's no fucking way I'm letting her out of my sight.
"I have to go somewhere right now, and you're all coming with me."
Heidi finishes rinsing body wash off her body, turns off the shower, and steps out. I'm awarded a dick-stirring view of her gorgeous ass when she bends down to grab another towel out of a cabinet before she wraps it around herself, looking up at me with obvious affection and interest.
"What is it about?"
"My hellhound is respawning. Finally," I add.
Something about the way my voice breaks slightly and my expression must tip off Heidi about how big a deal this is for me. Her face softens, and she nods, standing on her tiptoes to kiss my jaw.
That tiny show of casual affection does a number on me.
"I'm going to get something from the back porch, and then let's go," she whispers.
36
ZAK
“How soon is too soonto ask her for another taste?” I whisper to Ian as I gaze across the charred backyard at where Heidi stands beside Asher.
I’m happy as fuck that she didn’t cover her face up with makeup before we left her place.
“Right now is too soon,” he assures me without missing a beat.
“Yeah? How do you know?”
Kaenon is standing at my other side and motions toward Heidi. “He is right. Watch how my mate yawns. She is exhausted from the pleasures upon her bed earlier. Ask to lick her sweetness again after she has rested.”
“That’s assuming we’ll get any rest,” I point out.
About twenty minutes ago, Asher transported all five of us to this big house set on several acres somewhere in West Virginia. At least, he tried to transport us to it. Apparently, he’s kind of shit at transportation spells, so we had to walk a small distance to actually reach the house.
Now we’re standing in some stranger’s backyard while Asher checks a tripod camera pointed at the ground. He said it’s totrack heat underground, which isn’t a surprise to me. After all, Kaenon figured out the guy lost his pet hellhound. I’ve seen plenty of hellhounds respawn, and demons, too.
So I’m bored.
And I want to taste her again. Now that I’ve been inside my sweet empath while her addictivemeritsent me to the only kind of Paradise a half-demon like me can ever experience, I’m fucking dying for more.
Kaen’s right, though. She needs rest. Once this hound pops out of the ground, we’ll crash for the night—but I plan to spend all day tomorrow fucking our girl to our hearts’ content, if she’ll let us.
Three women step out of the back door of the house we’re visiting. According to Asher, an all-female quintet lives here. Their keeper is a fae named Jada, a former bounty hunter friend of his who buried his hound’s fangs here a while ago. Apparently, she also made the translation thingy attached to Kaenon’s ear.
When the three women move closer, Ian makes a dry, strained sound in his throat and squeezes his eyes shut, rubbing his neck.
“Fuck. I need to go hunting.”
