“What?” I sat up, grinning down at him. “Lucifer Morningstar. You are not proposing to me withThe Lord of the Ringsmentioned in the same sentence.”
He grinned up at me, his wicked smile sitting perfectly on the devil’s full, sinful lips. “What can I say? I know my audience. Though when we recount the tale of my proposal, we should embellish it a bit. Make it worthy of the Lucifer all the humans imagine me to be.”
I fell onto his chest and kissed him. “Don’t worry. We’ll tell them about this grand proposal complete with fireworks, the New York Rockettes, a live performance from all the members of the Beatles, and something to do with goodie bags filled with cocaine.
He snorted alaugh. The sound was melodic and as comforting as a favorite song, warming me all over. He wrapped his arms around me and deepened the kiss. When he finally broke away, he looked up at me, grinning from ear to ear. “You know, I could make all those things happen if that’s your idea of a perfect proposal.”
I rolled my eyes, smiling. “Of course, you could do all those things. But no. This is perfect.” Curling up in his arms, I kissed his stubbled jawline and let out a happy sigh. “So, is that a yes?”
“It’s a yes. It’s always been a yes, My Morningstar.”
* * *
Iwoke up to the devil kissing my neck. I was curled up into the cradle of his body, his fingertips digging into my hip possessively. I pulled the silk of my nightgown up over my thighs and arched into him, rubbing the valley of my bare ass into his rigid cock straining through his boxers.
He reached down to free his length, and a soft, swollen moan slid up my throat as he pushed his cock between the apex of my thighs, coating himself in my arousal. Hot, fervent need filled my core, and I bore down onto him, grinding against his shaft.
“You feel so damn good,” I gasped.
“That’s a good review,” he murmured in my ear through a splintered chuckle, “considering I’m not even inside you yet.”
“Let’s change that.” I reached around to grasp his cock and line it up for penetration, but he caught my wrist, holding my hand there.
“I want to savor it this time, Kitten.”
The corners of my mouth lifted into a sultry grin. “You didn’t want to savor it yesterday.”
Lucifer’s fire-flecked gaze banked with a hunger that filled my belly with a flutter of heat. “Yesterday was an eon of patience coming to an explosive end.”
His fingers gripped mine where I held him, urging my hand to stroke his length, my arousal still on him acting as a lubricant. “Now, I want to savor you.”
Something from one of the memories he’d shown me yesterday pushed to the front of my mind just then. “Why didn’t you say anything?”
His lustful smirk slipped from his face, a more serious expression taking its place. “Say anything to you about what?”
“You never mated her.”
“There were much more pressing things to fill you in on the last couple of days.”
“No, I mean, why didn’t you tell me before? Don’t tell me you did because you didn’t. I was very jealous of your Eve for such a long time, so I would have remembered if you had told me.”
Lucifer’s left hand came to join his right, which still clasped mine over his cock. He shrugged, his wry grin returning to its old post. “I didn’t think it was important. I did do things with her, and my family always painted me as the villain who took the first maiden’s virtue, so why not play the part.”
“But you didn’t.”
“It doesn’t matter now.”
“It does matter. It matters to me. The only woman you’ve ever been with has been me.”
His brows arched. “Does that bother you? That I am not the womanizer playboy that everyone makes me out to be? I’m a fraud. Fitting room attendants at lingerie shops get more action than me these days, Kitten.”
“The only thing that bothers me is that you’ve been loyal to me, even before you knew I existed. Back when you still thought Eve was your mate, even if your beast didn’t. I’ve been kind of a big slut—”
“Don’t do that,” he hedged, his hand squeezing mine in warning, which still held his erection. “You don’t get to feel any kind of guilt. You and your beast didn’t remember me. Your memories were lost. My queen is a wild, sexual woman, and I won’t ever hold that shit against you. Not when you didn’t even know me.”
His words struck a chord in my chest. “You don’t care?”
“I won’t say I don’t care. And don’t get me wrong, if I ever catch any of the pathetic males who dared touch what’s mine, I’ll make them pay.”
