Page 110 of Living Legend

He leaned his head down and placed his lips to my shoulder. “What does that mean?”

“It means you’re surprising to me. I am surprised,” I reiterated.

He laughed against my skin. “Dani, you can’t just let me bend you over and fuck you, then just say I’m surprising.”

“Well, I just did. Deal with it.” I snorted, laughing against the pillow as he dug his face further into my neck, his kisses tickling me. I used my hands to bat him away, turning my face back over my shoulder so that our faces were so close, he could have kissed me. “The total truth is that you may be angelic, but you fuck like a demon.”

He was calculating and persistent in the way he moved his hips. It was like he knew everything without having to ask. When it came to sex, especially sex in Purgatory, body language was key, and Nicholas seemed to understand that all too well. He may not have a chest full of sex toys, but I was almost positive he had tricks up his sleeve.

“Should I take that as a compliment?” The question was laced with sarcasm.

“I think so. I know a few ladies down in Purgatory who would probably ride you so hard, your dick would fall off.”

Nicholas groaned. “Alright, can we not talk about my dick falling off?”

I laughed again. “Sorry. Are you always this much of a cuddler after sex?”

He reached his hand up and started to draw lazy lines along my arm. “Oh, I’m sorry I want the girls I take to bed to not think I’m a total fuck boy. I actually like the girls I fuck. I even let them come before I do.”

“Ah, I do recall you doing that,” I said, letting out a little cry when he pinched me. “Can you count how many girls you’ve slept with on one hand?” I asked, curious.

He made a humming sound near my ear. “Yes.”

“Interesting. That right there isnotsurprising.”

“Unlike Reese, I didn’t see the need to stick my dick in anything with a pretty face and spreadable legs.” He traced his hand down my arm. “I’m going to assume that you’ve been a lot moreactiveduring your time in Purgatory?”

I bit my tongue, trying to figure out how to express what I wanted to say. “Let’s just say they all served their purpose, man or woman, and I enjoyed myself. Case closed.”

“Case closed then,” he said with a tightness in his voice. Not in a way that he was judging me, but like he wanted to know who all these other people I’d taken to bed were. It really wasn’t worth it. I wasn’t thinking of any of them right now.

His cock was pressed to my back, right near my ass, and every small movement he made had me very aware that he was so close to where I would have happily taken him again.

“Good thing I can’t get pregnant, because you might be fucked by now,” I said after a moment of silence. He stiffened next to me, lifting his face up from my neck. It was like all the oxygen left the room and I was holding it hostage. I had said the truth, but I had forgotten he didn’t know.

“Dani, I…fuck.”

I stifled a small giggle. “So even when you were going all slow and sexy on me, you didn’t think ‘hmm, I should probably get some protection’?”

He moved his arm around and snuggled me closer to his body. “I just wasn’t thinking.”

“It doesn’t matter anyway, Nicholas.”

He lifted his body a bit and started to move my hair away from my neck and face. “None of you can have kids?”

I shook my head. “Nope. No kids, no aging, no nothing.”

He started skimming my collarbone with his fingertip. “No aging?”

“Oh, come on, you can’t tell me you don’t know all this already?”

He was silent, as if telling me he had no idea. Well, shit.

“Lilith made it that way a long fucking time ago, so that no demons can procreate or grow old as long you belong to her. We live for eternity in this permanent state of being, never able to bring someone else into the world. Too much of a hassle. We’re at our prime when Lilith picks you to come to Purgatory. She doesn’t need you growing old just for her to replace us. She wants toaddto what she already has.” I let out a few breaths and then continued. “We aren’t immortal. She has made that crystal clear with some of the things she’s done to us.

“If Lilith wants you in her inner circle, I guess it’s not super shitty. Special privilege and all that. You should see the demons she uses as errand boys or sends to Lucifer to use as puppets.”

I let my voice trail off when I realized I was just rambling. It felt good to release it, but he didn’t need to look inside and see all the fucked-up stuff that happens in a place he was never going to see. A place I was going to have to return to.

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