Wow.Jedda hadn’t spent a lot of time around demons or inthe demon realm, but most of what she’d experienced when it came to demons waspure chaos.These people were focused, smart, and genuine.Reaching for asandwich, she shook her head in amazement.
Lilliana’s mouth quirked.“What is it?You look surprisedabout something.”
“It’s just that I expected the Grim Reaper’s realm tobe...well, not this.”
“You expected torture and misery and a whole lot of scary.”
Bingo.“I didn’t want to say it out loud, but yes.”
The other woman blew steam off the surface of her tea.“That’s how it used to be.When I got here, in fact.”She took a sip, and thenshe put the cup down with just the slightesttinkagainst the plate.“Everyone’s content here now, but make no mistake, thisisa hell realm.This is where demon souls and the souls of evil humans arestored.And my mate can be as evil as anything you’ve seen.”
Jedda swallowed a bite of cucumber sandwich in a painfulgulp.“Can I ask you something?Something personal?”
Lilliana shrugged.“Go for it.”
“On our walk, you said you lived in Heaven and got totime-travel for a living.You gave up so much to be withAzagoth.Don’t you ever resent him?Even a little?”
“Never.”The fierceness in Lilliana’s voice made it veryclear that she meant it.“I mean, I get mad at him because he can be a majorasshat sometimes, but I knew what I was getting into.I make him happy, and hemakes me just as happy.I’d sacrifice anything to keep it that way.”
Scuffling noises from out in the hall drew Jedda’sattention.Hades was striding toward them with a bloody body in his arms, andit took her a second to realize who it was.When she did, her heart skidded toa painful halt.
“Razr.”Terror welled in her chest as she jumped up anddarted out into the corridor.Her foot slipped in blood and she nearly wentdown, but she caught herself on the wall just before she crashed spectacularly.“What happened?”
Lilliana grabbed her arm from behind and pulled her around,preventing her from chasing after.“His punishment.He must have gotten thesignal during his meeting withAzagoth.”
“I hate that,” Jedda yelled.Adrenaline coursed through herbody like a billion tiny, uncut diamonds that abraded every nerve and made hertremble with rage and helplessness.She knew Razr’s condition wasn’t Lilliana’sfault.It wasn’t the fault of anyone who lived here.But it was sick andtwisted, and what kind of whack job devised such cruelty anyway?“It’sbullshit, and dammit, I want to help him.Right fucking now!”
Lilliana inclined her head as if she knew exactly what Jeddawas going through.It didn’t even make any sense.Jedda didn’t know Razr thatwell.But she couldn’t fight the pull to him, the one that made her crave himand want to care for him.To watch over him when he couldn’t do it himself.She’d always been a bit of a nurturer, but she’d also been a loner, not needinganyone but herself for survival or even company.
But Razr had challenged everything she’d ever known aboutherself.Everything she’d ever been.
“Please,” Jedda said more calmly.“Take me to him.”
Lilliana didn’t argue.In a matter of minutes, Jedda wasinside Razr’s small flat in what Lilliana had called the “instructors’ dorm,”patching him up the way she had at her own place.Other than a few hisses andgroans when she’d cleaned his wounds, he’d been silent...but awake.His eyes,dulled by pain, had locked with hers now and then, and each time, she’d had toblink back tears.
He finally passed out, and she climbed into bed beside him,wondering where they went from here.
Jedda woke to the prod of a very impressive erectionagainst her hip.Smiling, she stretched, letting her body slide against Razr’sas he spooned her from behind.
“You awake?”he whispered into her hair.She shivered at thefeel of his warm breath fanning the back of her neck like a slow caress.
In answer, she reached back and slid her hand between theirbodies to grasp his cock.He gasped, arching into her palm.He was so hot, sohard, steel and satin and a drop of silken moisture.Gently, she slid her gripfrom the broad head to the thick base and back up, letting her fingers memorizeevery bump, every ridge, every smooth plane.Each stroke made him churn hiships as he nuzzled her neck and dropped his arm around her to cup her breast.
Oh, yes.This was what she’d missed when they’d had sex theother day.Not that she was complaining, but to be able to touch, to play...The decadence of it made her entire body go liquid with desire.
He pinched her nipple and rolled it between his thumb andfinger, tweaking it until it was so sensitive it felt like it was directlyconnected to her core.An orgasm hovered between her thighs and they’d barelygotten started.
“Jedda...”His voice was so tortured, so…male, and she wentutterly wet.
Twisting, she looked over her shoulder at him, and in theglow of the nightlight from the bathroom, he was incredible.Passion and rawhunger lurked in his half-lidded eyes, his full lips parted on panting breaths,and she suddenly wanted that mouth on her body.Tasting her.Licking her.Kissing her.Didn’tmatter.
As if he could read her mind, he reached over and caught herchin in his hand to tilt her face towardhis.As hecaptured her mouth, he flipped her onto herkneessothey were upright, her back against his chest, his erection cradled in the seamof her ass, and his other hand playing between her legs.He was rough with her,like before in her bedroom, his tongue thrusting in her mouth, his fingerthrusting in her core.
Her body jerked wildly, chasing what only he could give her.
“I don’t know why I want you so badly,” he murmured as hetore his mouth away from hers to kiss a blazing path down her neck.“You’rejust so...damned...beautiful.Every time I look at you, I want to be insideyou.”
Now she’d wonder what he was thinking whenever he looked herway, and she loved it.Half-crazed by his words, she angled her pelvis to givehim better access and cried out as his other hand joined the first, one fuckingher with fingers, the other tweaking her clit.
