Page 52 of Devil Bound
I forced myself to give Sexy Mitch my best smile.He’d asked me out on a date.Things weren’t ever that easy for me, but Mitchunderstood.He could relate to all the late nights at work, to the odd hours at which I was called to crime scenes.
Mitch, I realized as my Converse collected sand, might be the perfect match for me.A man who wasn’t weird about me touching him, who liked my company, and was even looking for it.Also a man who asked me out on a proper date.
Perhaps we’d be something soon, and I’d be coming home to him waiting for me at my place.I’d rather come home to him than a bowl of ramen, not that I’d ever admit as much to anyone.I wasn’t sure how a relationship like that was supposed to work, but I was willing to experiment.
After all, I’d never come home to anyone waiting for me.Ever.
28
Lucifer
“Idon’tunderstandwhyyou’re moving to Brunswick,” I told Tiamat.
She was behind the wheel of one of my cars, driving painfully slowly and looking out the window at the nice houses in this fancy neighborhood she had selected to find one to her liking.
“You do not need to understand everything.”She glanced over at me just as I wrinkled my nose.“You’re still sulking.”
“Well, I was watching my boyfriend sleep, and you pulled me away from him.It was my duty to make sure he was fine during his rest.Also, what if he wakes, wants my cock, and realizes I’m not there to give it to him?What then, Dragon Mother?Being in a relationship is all about that lazy morning sex!”
Tiamat’s eyes came to rest on me for a long moment.Naturally, I looked away first.
“You were reading him one of your books.How was the human supposed to rest if you read him a scene about someone who reaches sexual heights while being held captive in a cage?Some of what you read might even defy physics.Cage bars can be too slippery to support—”
“That doesn’t matter.It was all about planting a suggestion in his dreaming mind.”
The only issue with reading Nelly that book had been that I’d had to stop every few pages.I kept imagining us as the main characters, and…I wanted him.I’d carve his desire like the skin off an orange, going slow while the lovely scent of lust he’d produce at my touch spiced the air.
The Dragon Mother sniffed as if she were smelling something, though nothing as pleasant as orange zest.
“Are you fantasizing about that young one?”
“Well, that’s what boyfriends are for.And I wouldn’t have to fantasize about him if I were with him right now.”
“No, but you are ever reliable, which is why you are here with me to help me move.”
I sighed.“Yes, Dragon Mother.”
“Good, good.”She patted my hand, her full attention once more going to the houses all around us.
Still, this excursion had ruined the plans I’d had for today, to wit, the reenactment of a few scenes from a few books with Nelly.One of the scenes from the novel I’d read Nelly involved a reticent lover who’d needed to be chained to the bars of his cage and taken from inside the cage and outside it.In that case, there were two other people involved, but I figured I could do that to Nelly in sequence: first his cock in my hand, then mine in his mouth, and last, I’d come deep inside him and leave him barely conscious under me.
Which brought me back to last night.I was reasonably sure Nelly had done something funny with his magic to knock himself out.I certainly hadn’t.I liked my lovers conscious…except, of course, I had a boyfriend now and no more lovers.
“I would like to know why you can’t just hire a realtor,” I asked the Dragon Mother.“As I explained, I had plans.”
She snorted and looked up at a gaudy building with columns out front.“That mortal looked so tired, he’d either had too much of your attention, or not enough.I do suspect the latter.”
I knew there was no point in arguing with the Dragon Mother, but she was just being silly now.Nelly wasdifficult, but I was trying.
“If this is about the juice cleanse—”
“Yes, that nonsensical waste of good produce.”
“—then we are doing it to get him off the obscene amount of coffee he’s been drinking.It was my suggestion, out of a lover’s concern.”
Surely that had to count for something, and surely she would appreciate it.
She clicked her tongue.“As I told you last night, your Nelly is a magic user, and those need actual proper food.Ah, that’s it.”
