“You don’t have to face him, baby. I’ll do it for you.”
“I just want to go home, where I know you’ll be safe.” My voice was small and hushed, but the silence of the room made it feel like I’d yelled the words.
Gabe leaned forward and ran the tip of his nose down my jaw, leaving feather-light kisses on the side of my neck. Without meaning to, I tilted my head to give him better access.
He felt so good. He always made me feel so good.
“I can’t do that. I can’t allow him to live, not now that I know what he’s done to you. Shemhazai, we can’t even fuck with your clothes off because you’re so terrified he’ll see you exposed. Until he’s gone,youwill never feel safe, and that is just not something I can accept.”
“Gabe,”I whined as he nipped at the spot directly beneath my ear, causing my toes to curl and my eyes to roll back in my head.
“He took something from you that was only ever meant to be mine, Shemhazai,” he rumbled, releasing my hands and sliding his fingers down my body. I gasped as he slipped a hand under my waistband and fisted my hard and aching cock.
“He put his cock inside you… and for that, I will have to remove it.”
I whimpered and rolled my hips up into his fist, chasing the friction.
I felt him smirk against my lips as his wings bloomed from his back, creating a soft shelter around us.
He tugged my pants off, freeing me of them, then used his knee to spread my legs, his warm golden gaze tracing down my body and landing on where his hand played with me.
He met my eyes and slid his hand lower, fondling my balls before slipping under me and nudging his fingers into my crease.
I groaned and arched, allowing him to press against my rim, and another choked moan escaped my lips without my permission.
“You love it when I touch you here,” he said softly, and I shuddered.
I did. I did love it.
“Because of him, you were afraid to let me in. I should have been theonlyperson to have that privilege, and he took that from us.”
“I didn’t want?—”
“Shh, I know, baby. I know you didn’t want it. I’m not blaming you. I’m just explaining why going home isn’t an option for me. Do you have any idea how angry it makes me that he hurt you? That he put his disgusting hands on you? That he made you feel like you’re anything less than perfect?”
My eyes widened at the worddisgustingrolling off his tongue. I wasn’t even sure he realized what he’d just done, but he’d unintentionally flipped the script that had been running in my head for years.
I wasn’t the disgusting one.
Raziel was.
As my mind whirled, Gabe leaned over and snatched up a bottle of lube before coating his fingers with a generous amount.
He slipped his hand back under me and toyed with my crack again.
“Spread your legs, Shemhazai. I’m going to make you feel good; then, you’re going to go to sleep.”
“You’re so bossy all of a sudden.” I scowled, though I did as he asked and spread my legs wider for him.
He smirked and arched his wings as he lowered himself so his face was directly over my cock.
“I’ve always been bossy, baby. I just let you think you were in charge because you needed to be in control… And I wanted you badly enough to play along.”
I opened my mouth to chirp some witty retort, but it was lost in a garbled groan as he passed a flat, wet tongue over my tip.
“Fuck…”I breathed, arching up into his mouth. He used the opportunity to slide a slick finger deep inside me, and I jerked beneath him at the overwhelming sensation of him penetrating me.
He wrapped his other hand around my cock and kissed the tip, causing me to moan again as he gently curled his finger up inside me.
