“It very muchisover, Ares. Crawl back under whatever rock you came from.”
“You heard her.” Shemhazai smirked, making a‘shoo’motion with his hand. The smug look on his face only pissed Ares off even more.
“I revoke my blessing on Rome’s armies; our deal isoff,” he snarled at the chaos demon, who just shrugged.
“All good things must end. Bye Ares. Wish I could say it’s been fun.”
Ares snarled in rage and gathered his burning-hot power, but Shemhazai’s hellcats prowled closer to the god, forcing him back. His dark eyes flickered from the shadow beasts and back to Shem again before he gritted his teeth and vanished in a molten explosion of hot air.
The second he was gone, I relaxed, allowing my water magic to dissipate. Shemhazai followed suit, his own smokey hellcats turning back into normal, harmless cat shadows.
“Well, that was entertaining,” he beamed at me. I gave him a shaky smile and nodded.
“Sure, I guess. Thanks,” I replied, turning away from him and continuing my previous path through thePorta Libitinensis.
I was suddenly stopped by a steely grip on my wrist. I glanced down in shock to find the demon had grabbed me.
I jerked my hand away from him, but he only held on tighter. Suddenly, the feeling of safety I allowed myself to fall into melted away.
“Where do you think you’re going, sweetheart?” the demon asked me, his voice liquid poison.
“Release me,” I growled instead of answering. Where I was going was no one’s concern but my own.
“Hmm. How about,no.You owe me.”
I gaped at him. “I don’t owe youshit!”
He chuckled, tugging me closer to him, and my blood boiled.
Seems I had escaped one entitled piece of shit only to be faced with another.
“Oh, but you do. I saved you. You’re indebted to me.”
“I didn’t ask for your help.”
“But you benefited from it just the same.” He smirked, and I narrowed my eyes at him. “Come on, I don’t expect much. How about you take me for that ride we talked about?” His eyes flashed in amusement at the fury that ripped through me at his words.
“I wouldn’t fuck a demon male even if he had a magic cock,” I spat, which only made him chuckle.
Fucking PRICK!
He wanted a ride? I would give him a fuckingride.
An idea curled through my mind, and I suddenly knew exactly how I was going to handle this asshole. Thinking about how amused my friend Eros, the god of desire, would be with my plan to fuck with a chaos demon, I gave him a coy smirk.
“I already told you, Shemhazai. If you want me, you’ll have to catch me first.” I smirked, and his grin widened.
“Oh yeah?”
I ripped my hand out of his grip, and he let me. The idea of chasing me was clearly appealing to him, but little did he know he wouldn’t catch me unless I wanted him to. And when I was ready, I would be waiting with a bottle of Eros’ elixir and the most disgusting human I could find.
If this demon wanted to ride someone, I would give him what he wanted and laugh while he did it.
“Yeah.” I peeked at him through my lashes. Stepping away from him, I allowed my body to melt into the night.
“Try and keep up,” I whispered, and he grinned as my voice slithered through the air around us.
“Run, Hecate. Run as fast as you fucking can because if I ever catch you, I’ll make you come so hard you see fucking stars.”
