“Does anything ever faze you?” he asks.
“Spiders!” I say and then let out a whole body shake. Spiders scare the crap out of me. “If I see one down here, then you are on your own. I’m running upstairs screaming.”
Jade chuckles and shakes his head. His grip on my hand tightens.
“Seriously though. This… all has to be a lot for you. Finding out your boyfriend is a monster who needs to be locked in a dungeon.”
“Hey!” I exclaim. “Jade, you are not a monster.”
His green eyes stare deep into me. As if he is trying to absorb some of my confidence.
“Fey aren’t nice. They are cruel, vicious and malevolent,” Jade whispers.
I hate the shame and self-loathing that is rolling off of him. I hate that he believes this about himself, when absolutely none of it is true. He is the sweetest guy in the whole entire world. I wish he could see it.
“You are none of those things, Jade. Maybe because of your human blood, maybe because you are you.”
Jade scrunches up his nose.
I squeeze his hand. “Trust me, I’m a great judge of character. I know good people when I meet them. I’m never wrong. My gaydar is top-notch too. And my topdar has also never failed me,” I say with a wink.
His green eyes widen and a pretty pink blush races along his cheeks. He looks utterly scandalized by what I just said.
My laugh bubbles out of me and there is not a thing I can do to stop it. But then my laugh is smothered by Jade’s lips. He has pounced on me for a kiss, and it is the best idea he has ever had.
Every inch of my skin starts to tingle as the kiss zooms through me. I pull Jade closer. I want to be pressed against every part of him. I want to share body heat. I want to feel him in my bones.
But he breaks away from me. I whine in disorientation and disappointment.
“Gray, can we have some privacy, please?” Jade pants.
What the hell? My head whips around, but I can’t see the little guy anywhere.
“Your lust tastes delicious,” rasps Gray’s voice from the shadows.
I yelp and every small hair on my body stands up. I still can’t see Gray.
Suddenly, a stern voice calls from the top of the stairs. “Gray, come along now. You know better than this. Feeding from your friends isn’t nice.”
Gray steps out of the shadows with a pout on his pretty face. His dark eyes are glinting and he is staring at us with clear avarice.
The voice at the top of the stairs lets out a quiet rumble of a growl. “Gray, you have five seconds to get up these stairs if you want to be fed tonight.”
The little demon moves in a blur, dashing through the door and up the stairs so fast he’s practically flying.
Footsteps move away from us, and we are alone again. I turn to Jade.
“Did he really want to eat us?”
Jade swallows. “Only our sexual energy.”
Oh right. Yeah, I think someone explained to me that Gray is not any old type of demon, he is a sex demon. An incubus.
“Sorry,” Jade whispers.
I smile and pull him back in to resume our kissing. “Nothing to be sorry about.”
His arms wrap around me, and he kisses me exactly how I like. With hunger, need, and determination.
