Page 20 of Hell Fae King
I squinted my already closed eyes and took a deep breath and… and… let it out in a scream. Because I couldn’t move. I was trapped in the sun, melting beneath its fiery rays.
Bands of intensity tightened around me. “I’m going with you,” Lucifer said against my ear. “Fucking let go with me, Camillia.Now.”
I didn’t understand what he meant, but I desperately wanted to go with him. So I clung to the arms around my middle and fought to follow his command.
Air whooshed around us, the blazing inferno flashing white behind my closed eyes, and then we were falling… soaring…flying…
Until we were nothing at all.
Just lying… on the ground.
I frowned. Blinked. And frowned harder. “Where…?” I coughed, my throat dry like I’d been locked in a sauna for hours without access to water.
A face carved from ancient marble—the kind statues were crafted to honor long ago—suddenly overtook my view. And a pair of the most beautiful blue eyes I’d ever seen stared down at me.
Lucifer, I breathed, his angelic features etched into impossible lines of perfection.
Fae, this close it was hard to look at him. Especially when he gave me all of his focus like this. “Are you all right?” he asked me, his deep tone matching the one I’d heard against my ear as he’d told me to let go.
I swallowed and tried to nod, but everything felt stiff. “Y-yes.”
He shuddered over me, only then making me realize that he had me pinned to the floor of the… the… I glanced around, my brow furrowing again. We were in some sort of cave. All black rock with lava lines trickling down the seams, allowing some flickering red and orange light through.
It created an eerie atmosphere that should have left me uneasy, yet all I felt was peace.
The chilling power was nowhere to be felt, and my hands were?—
My eyebrows flew upward. “Az.”
I’m fine,the male in question instantly replied, likely having heard his name echo through my mind.You saved me.
I… I did?I glanced around.Where…?
“Camillia,” Lucifer said, that dominant air about him immediately capturing my attention again. “Azazel is okay. But I need you to breathe and remain calm.”
I stared up at him. “Okay.”
“Good girl,” he praised. “Now inhale for me.”
I did.
“Exhale,” he said, his voice softening a little.
I obeyed him once more.
He repeated himself, and I continued to do what he ordered me to do for several minutes, the air around us seeming to settle in the cave.
“Beautiful,” he whispered, his forehead falling to mine. “Now just exist with me for a moment.”
I shivered beneath him, his heat bleeding into my skin.
My… my bare skin, I realized half a beat later.I’m naked.
“Shh,” he hushed me. “We’re almost settled.”
I had no idea what he meant by that. All I knew was I had a hot Hell Fae King on top of myvery nakedbody.
“Camillia,” he growled. “Don’t make me teach you how to breathe again.”
