Page 10 of Bad Demon

She pressed her hand against my chest and shoved. Something sizzled through me, lifting the hair on my arms and on the back of my neck.

“It’s pretty cringe that you don’t know that,” she added.

She shoved again, but I didn’t budge. No, I still wasn’t ready to back up just yet—I was enjoying myself too much—but I did release her.

I tilted my head to the side. “You have a very smart mouth for someone so small and annoying.”

Images filled my mind with all the ways I could occupy that smart, pouty mouth of hers.

“And you have a giant head and ridiculous … muscles.” She flushed. “You look like a deformed Sasquatch.”

She thought I was strong. The demon was admiring my muscles. I didn’t know why, but I liked that.

“Now, I’m embarrassed for you,Gremmy, if we’re talking about things that don’t exist,” I said, teasing her. Some females liked being teased, and I found I wanted to see those pretty eyes light with pleasure.

“Don’t call me Gremmy,” she fired at me, her pretty fingers still tapping against the side of her thigh.

“But it suits you”—I flashed her a grin, the one I knew females liked—“Gremmy.”

The demon crossed her arms, bristling. Cute.

“Leave,” she said, her unusual peridot-colored eyes darting around the room.

“I don’t think so.”

How was it that I was enjoying this interaction more than the one I’d had two nights ago, in the office of the Hellfire, when a female eagerly sucked my dick?

She looked down, her thick lashes fluttering rapidly, and then she drew in a breath through clenched teeth and looked back up. “I want you to leave, you giant pain in the ass,” she fired at me. “I want you to leave my shop now.”

I wanted to tweak that upturned nose. “If I were in your ass, Gremmy, I promise it would only hurt for a minute, and then I’d make it feel real good.”

She hissed, and my abs clenched. Those little fangs were doing things to me.

“Okay,” Zinny said. “If you could just get the ingredients I need, we’ll leave. Right, Relic?”

I winked down at the pissed-off demon in front of me. “Sure.”

She spun away, and I had to force myself to stay put and not grab her and pull her back or follow her as she rushed down one of the aisles crowded with ingredients.

She snatched something off the end, then strode up to Zinnia and shoved it into her hand. “Now, leave.”

Zinnia took money from her pocket. “I need to pay you.”

“I don’t care, just leave,” the demon said.

Zinny dropped a wad of cash on the counter, then grabbed my arm and tried to push me from the store. For some fucked-up reason, I was reluctant to leave, but she was persistent, so I let her have her way.

The sound of the bolt being thrown came as soon as we walked out. The demon stood behind the glass and quickly flipped the Open sign to Closed before she disappeared into the back of her store.

“What the hell wasthat?” Zinnia said when we started walking.

“What?” I was still grinning. No, I hadn’t enjoyed myself like that in a very long time.

“You terrified that female, then sexually harassed her,” Zinny said.

The fuck?I stopped in my tracks and stared down at her. “No, I didn’t. That’s not what happened.”

“I’ve never heard you speak to a female that way.”

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