Page 17 of The River of Hatred

I roll my eyes at the sanctimonious fool. “I wasn’t even going to fuck her, Itha. A little mutual masturbation never hurt anybody.”

It’s the angel’s turn to blush and I could swear I see steam coming out of his ears. “You are profane!” he hisses.

“You can offer your ass up if you’re so worried about the mortal’s virtue.”

I realize I’ve stepped too far even before he raises his fist to unleash a punch that would shatter a human’s skull into a million pieces. I manage to turn my head enough that the blow is glancing, but it still hurts like a motherfucker.

“Fuck!” I roar, jumping back.

“For weeks I’ve been listening to the dreck coming out of your vile mouth,” he seethes. “It ends now.”

He advances as I step back, throwing himself at me to cover the distance. We land with a thud and roll across the grass. Ithuriel’s furious punches land against any part of me he can reach as I push at his face. “Get off me!” I growl.

“You’re an abomination!”

“Maybe if you bothered to talk to me after I left Heaven I wouldn’t be!”

He rears back with incredulity. “You’re blaming me for what you’ve become?”

I bare my teeth at him. “I blame you foreverything!” I roar. “If it wasn’t for you, I’d still be in Heaven!”

The angel shakes his head and I wrap my legs around his hips to roll us over. Once I’m on top I push his shoulders down into the ground. “If you hate me so much, why not just kill me, Fallen?” he asks.

I lean down until less than an inch separates our faces. “Because you can only feel pain while you’re alive,” I hiss against his lips.

His eyes widen with shock and sorrow. My anger dissipates at the wounded look in them. The beautiful gray orbs I dreamed about for centuries. My panting breaths turn harsher as a terrible pain threatens to split my heart into two.

“Sar…” he whispers, his breath warm against my lips and I moan at the sensation. It’s then I notice he’s still not wearing his plate armor and my pelvis is nestled against the welcoming softness of his body, not cold steel. My erection returns with a vengeance.

Shuddering, I start grinding against him. “Itha,” I moan his name. His eyes dart as I rub our groins together, the friction sending plumes of flame down my back and into my balls. I’m rubbing my dick against my beautiful angel.

“Shit!” I hiss as my back arches, cum exploding out of my cockhead and into my leathers. “Shit, shit, shit,” I whisper at every consecutive pulse, shaking atop my oldest friend.

When I open my eyes, I see pity on his pale face and my stomach turns. I shove up to my feet. What the fuck did I just do? What did he make me do? This is not how it’s supposed to go, I’m not the one meant to lose control. It’s all his fucking fault.

“Fuck you, Ithuriel,” I push through gritted teeth.

Running my hand over my hair, I turn to our camp. Jessica is standing a few paces away, her mouth slack in shock. She clearly had a front-row seat to everything.

Great. Just great.

Chapter 10 – Jessica

“So… that was intense,” I murmur, watching the angel on the ground from the corner of my eyes. I don’t think he’d want me to be staring at him. Though I already got an eyeful. Oh, my.

Ithuriel, still just sitting there, stares into the distance. Is he going to snap? What if he decides this was the straw that broke the camel’s back and leaves to go back to Heaven? Can I trust Sariel to stay?

“Do you want to be alone?” I ask the angel, wringing my hands in front of me. The two angels dry humping was without a doubt the hottest thing I’ve ever seen, but now I’m feeling pretty damn awkward.

Ithuriel slowly shakes his head side-to-side. Not quite sure what comfort I can offer except my companionship, I drop to my ass next to him (but at a respectable distance) and help him stare into nothingness while he digests his once-best friend and now-enemy using his body to get off.

Oy vey.

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I blow the cobwebs I just walked into off my nose. I don’t want to think about what the spiders that made these look like. We are in Hell, after all. I was convinced spiders are demons before I ever learned that demons are, you know, among us.

“Are we planning to stop spelunking in these caves and move into Belial’s territory any time soon?” I ask the angels a touch crankily. It’s just been weeks since we started exploring The Lethe and it’s been one dusty fusty cave after another. Well, one was kind of cool, with a hot spring and flowers and vines. I totally shooed the boys away and took a nice long soak.

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