He was perfect. Every single inch of him. It was as if someone had plucked the image of him from my head and made him just for me.
“Promise me you’ll never break a deal with me again, Mia,” he whispered.
“No.” When he winced, I caught his chin between my fingers and kept his gaze on me. “No more deals. No more contracts. That doesn’t mean I won’t listen to you or agree to your plans. But I never want to sign my name along a dotted line again.”
For a moment, I thought he’d keep arguing with me. Az was stubborn and set in his ways. I knew he used the contracts as a way to keep me safe, and he didn’t want to let go of that. But then he dragged his thumb along my bottom lip and sighed.
“I can’t say no to you.” He kissed me, softer than before. Our lips melted together as our bodies collided against the wall. Lifting me from the floor again, he trapped me there. My breasts against his chest. My thighs around his waist.
He slid inside of me, lighting me up with every inch. I clutched his shoulders as he thrusted deep inside. Need consumed me, driving away everything else. Instinctively, my thighs spread wider, eager for more.
“Fuck, Mia.” He growled out my name as his thrusts went deeper. “How is it even possible you feel this good?”
I gasped as he slammed into me. Sweat beaded on my brow at the heat pouring off his body in waves. My climax built inside my core like a hurricane. He gripped my thighs, tugging my body toward his, and that was all it took to undo me completely.
I shattered around him, my orgasm stronger than any I’d ever had. A ringing filled my head as he followed quickly behind.
We clung to each other until our heartbeats slowed. Then, slowly, Az lowered me to the floor. I leaned against him and breathed him in, grateful for the scent of fire and smoke. I’d missed it.
“We need to shower,” he said, rubbing my back. “As much as I want to bask in you for hours, I can’t. If Lucifer caught us like this, it would all be over.”
I sighed and nodded. “And so the bubble is burst.”
“We can put it back together.” He squeezed my shoulder as we padded into his master bathroom. “When Lucifer has returned to Hell, we can spend as much time as we’d like in this bedroom.”
I tried not to read too much into it, but I couldn’t help myself. He’d always been so closed off about his feelings. I hadn’t even been sure he’d ever wanted me until now.
Lifting my eyes to his face, I braced myself for disinterest. But I didn’t find it. Instead, all I found was heat. “And how much time would that be?”
“Hours. Days. Weeks.” He traced his thumb along the skin beneath my ear, causing a fresh wave of shivers. “You are beautiful, Mia. Your little gasps when I touch you are the sexiest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.”
With a little smile, I gasped.
“Yes,” he growled. “Just like that.”
“Do we really have to go now?”
He pulled open the door to his walk-in shower and turned on the tap. Water poured down from the ceiling like rainfall. “Well, we do need to shower before we leave. Might as well make it interesting.”
My core tightened. Sounded good to me.
13
The moment I stepped insideInfernal, I half-expected Lucifer to look into my eyes and read everything that had happened between me and Az. We’d done our best to wash the scent off our bodies, but I felt as though the connection between us had been imprinted on my soul.
A bit melodramatic, really, but hey. Sometimes girls get crushes on demons and all logic flies right out the window. It didn’t help that it had taken us a full two hours to get out of his penthouse. Every time we tried to leave, one of us got frisky. It had been one of the best days I’d had in the past few years. Too bad it came with the threat of a Hell.
Much to my relief, Lucifer was nowhere to be seen. Az left me in the Legion’s meeting room while he made his rounds through the building before the doors opened. He was a perfectionist a lot of the time, at least when it came to his club. He liked to make sure everything was spic and span before his patrons arrived. Every chair in place. Every stain on the floor scrubbed. It needed to glisten and gleam for the night’s party.
This place might be a front for some secret soul saving, butInfernalwas still his baby.
“Mia!” Caim beamed and leaned back in his chair. “Come join us.”
He sat with Stolas and Bael around the metal folding table. Playing cards were spread out before them. There was no sign of their map or detailed files tracking dangerous supernaturals working for Lucifer. Right now, they couldn’t focus on any of that. Lucifer’s presence in the club shut all that down.
“You should probably call me Sansa,” I said as I dropped into the chair. “You never know whenyou know whocould be lurking around. I’m not going to let him win that easily, especially after what happened today...”
I cut myself off, cheeks flushing. Might be best if I kept that information to myself.
