Page 140 of How Not to Date an Angel

They weren’t human, after all. They were an angel. And Julian was a demon.

They pulled back, trying for innocence and missing the mark. “Is your tail… prehensile?”

Julian winked. “Want to find out?”

Later, when Rami was giving Julian every detail of their Heavenly dressing-down, he stopped Rami with a hand against their lips.

“Are you telling me. That this whole time. You thought I was tempting you to beevil?”

Rami whined and covered their face. “I’m so embarrassed!”

“I was tempting you to be selfish!” Julian cried.

“I know thatnow!I—I just… forgot.”

“You forgot your ownhistory?” Julian asked, teasing.

“Well! You try spending thousands of years on Earth and see what happens!”

Julian chuckled, pulling Rami back down to lay beside him. He pressed a kiss to Rami’s cheek, and they reveled in the warm fuzzies in their stomach from the sweet action.

“Gladly, as long you’re here,” Julian returned.

And Rami didn’t have very much to say to that.

Well, except—

“I love you,” Rami said, hand pressed to Julian’s chest as they stared down at him. “And I’m sorry for what I said. I’ll never stop being sorry.”

His golden eyes softened. “I love you, too. And I’ve already forgiven you. Besides, you did plenty of apologizing when you put your tongue—“

Rami surged up and kissed him before he could finish that thought.

Their lips locked together, and Rami melted into Julian, until they were pressed chest to chest and Rami was straddling him.

They trailed their mouth to his pulse, his collarbones, his chest, memorizing him by touch and taste alone.

“Should I keep apologizing?” Rami drawled.

Julian swallowed. “Could do, if you wanted.”

“Might as well,” Rami said. “Just to be safe.”

Julian

6months later

“What if they don’t like me?” Rami asked. Julian would’ve scoffed, except he recognized the actual worry in their voice.

Julian reached over and shut the car off, laying his hand on Rami’s thigh. “Angel, they’re gonna love you.”

“There’s absolutely no way you can know that,” Rami pointed out.

“Can, too,” he argued, just to see Rami roll their eyes. “I love you, so they will, too. I promise.”

Rami sighed. “At this point I have to take your word for it.”

They dropped their hand atop Julian’s and squeezed, and Julian felt the full force of his overwhelming fondness for this angel.

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