Page 133 of Chaos
“Yeah. It’s a whole contest. Who can knock up the succubus fastest.”
He reached out for me, his hand curling protectively around my ankle. “You need to get away from them.”
“And go where? The world is ending, and I also have the legions of hell after me. Apparently.”
“Don’t you have somewhere you can run to? Someone who’ll take you in?”
My thoughts immediately went to Lilith. “Not anymore. It’s not safe for me to go back home.”
“Not home. Somewhere else. Somewhere no one would know to look for you.”
Andi’s offer came to mind, but just like I had in real life, I’d dismissed it. Malice knew about Andi from his snooping in my phone. I wouldn’t be safe with her for long, and the last thing I wanted to do was bring four angry horsemen to her doorstep.
“Merri, you can’t stay with these men. They aren’t putting your best interest ahead of their devious desires. You’re so lovely and kind. There has to be more than one option. Who else do you know?”
His name was on the tip of my tongue like it had been summoned there. “Cole.”
“Who is that? Is he safe?”
“He says he loves me.”
“That doesn't make him safe.”
“Doesn’t it?”
Luc smiled. “I suppose it might. Go to him. Run from these men who want to use you as their broodmare.”
“I’m not strong enough.”
He reached out and stroked my cheek with the back of his hand. “You know what you need to do to remedy that.”
“But you’re not real.”
His knuckles brushed over my cheek again, their warmth causing me to curl into them. “Aren’t I? I can touch you. That seems pretty real to me.”
“You’re just a figment of my imagination.”
“So you should probably listen to me, then, since it’s really you telling yourself what you need.”
Something about that logic turned my brain into a pretzel. “I guess.”
He leaned forward and feathered his lips over mine. “Let me give this to you, Merri. You need it.”
“Yes,” I whispered, so fucking hungry it hurt. My skin was hot and tight, breasts heavy, thighs rubbing together uncomfortably as I searched for friction I couldn’t find. I needed him to give me some relief.
Luc smiled before closing the distance between us fully and kissing me, his tongue pressing between my lips and his body lining up with mine. I wrapped my arms around him, urging him closer.
There was a yawning ache inside of me, begging to be filled.
“Please.”
“Oh, it will be my pleasure to give you everything you could ever wish for, darling. And maybe even something you wouldn’t dare think of.”
He ground his pelvis against me, the hot, thick length of him everything my body craved. But before I could move my panties aside and welcome him into my body, a terrible, twisting ache collected in my belly. Pain unlike anything I’d ever known radiated from deep within me, making my back arch and my eyes well with tears.
I screamed, skin on fire, gnawing agony burning in my gut.
Oh God. Was I dying?
