Searing pain shoots up my arm. When I look down at my wrist, there is a symbol there. The same one that I drew on the floor with the trident and the Greek letters. As fast as they appear on my wrist, they fade.
When I look back up, the demon is gone, and the lights are back on. I stand in the middle of my bedroom feeling confident. I was finally getting what I wanted for once.
chapter Fourteen
Mo’ Problems
Nasiah
Despite my lack of sleep and the aches in my joints, I was happy. Today I was heading back to work.
Last night and this morning, Raziel turned me every way but loose. He was determined to remind me of what I had at home. I know he was feeling skeptical about allowing me back to work, thinking I would run. However, I was honest with him yesterday. I have nothing to go back to.
I’d moved out of my apartment in preparation to move in with Jamieson after the wedding, so there was no home to go to. Lord knows I wasn’t going back to J’s. Hell, I didn’t even want to see my mama right now. I was still pissed at her for all this. The only person I could have gone to was Tanisha.
The speaker to my car rings. I look at the display screen and smile. Using the hands-free option I answer the call.
“I literally just left the house.”
His laughter pours through my speakers. The deep chuckle has me biting my lip. There is no way I could still be horny. Raziel has had me on every surface of his house. I shouldn’t still want him as bad as I do. I guess years of repressed orgasms will do that to you.
“I wanted to make sure you were safe.”
I laugh. Who knew that the forsaken angel that kidnapped me would be the one person who truly saw me.
“I am safe. I’m pulling into my parking spot now.”
“Erazel will be with you. He’s watching you from the void. If you call out to him, he will appear.”
“We went through this already. I don’t even understand the need for the bodyguard. I’m not running.”
I pull into the small shopping plaza where Diva’s Beauty Bar is located. Parking in the back of the lot under a light pole, I turn off my car and place my attention on my screen.
“He’s not there to keep you from running….”
I was about to call bullshit on that statement, but he spoke first.
“Well, he is, but not only for that.”
I laugh out loud.
“I have a lot of enemies, Beauty. And for the first time, I have something important to me that needs to be protected. So yes, it’s important that Erazel stays with you.”
For as rough around the edges as Raziel is, he has a lot of softness to him. He could never be considered kind or sweet, though.
“I’m not arguing. I’m just glad I’m able to get back to my regular life. Your home is nice, but it was still a prison.”
He’s quiet for a moment. “Our home,” he says somberly.
I don’t argue with him.
“I have to go,” I say.
“Have a good day at work.”
“You too.”
We both wait a few seconds, listening to each other. I’m not sure what we are waiting for, but whatever it is we both wait.
