Demon's Kiss (16 page)

The Bureau had given her a great deal of leeway, had
permitted her to pursue her obsession with Templeton quietly and carefully,
given his wealth and connections.

Now she was running checks on all of Templeton’s holding
companies, cautiously searching for and identifying everything he owned.

No one liked the idea that he thought he was above the law.

Stopping him was another matter.

Gabriel looked at Asmodeus, at Ashtoreth. “Are we done
here?”

With a look to Ashtoreth, Asmodeus nodded.

Both Daemonae vanished.

There were murmurs of shock and surprise from Templeton’s
men. None of them liked the idea of an enemy that could disappear and reappear
at will. Several of them looked around quickly.

Looking at Templeton, Gabriel smiled with a confidence she
didn’t feel and said, “Remember, Mr. Templeton, we’ll be watching.”

Turning on her heel, she strode out of the room. Even with
Asmodeus only a thought away, her back still felt vulnerable but then given the
visual daggers Templeton was probably boring into her that was understandable.

It was a relief to have the doors shut behind her and her
companions fall in around her.

As they walked out of the building onto the street, one of
them asked, “So, how did it go?”

She sighed and shrugged. “Hopefully he got the message.”

Privately she didn’t think so, but they had at least given
Templeton something to think about. It might only make him more cautious.

“Thanks, guys, for the backup,” she said sincerely. “Since
my husband is in town, if it’s okay with you, I’d like to see if I can meet him
for lunch.”

All four of them grinned. “No problem, Gabriel.”

Their amusement at her expense was a little embarrassing.
Everyone at the Bureau had been startled at the sudden announcement of her marriage
but to her surprise they seemed happy for her. She couldn’t help but grin too,
especially with the picture of Asmodeus bristling with rage still in her mind.
He was sexy when he was angry. A flash of heat went through her.

With a wave, her coworkers climbed into the car and pulled
out into traffic.

Even as she turned to walk down the street Asmodeus and Ash
in their human guises stepped out of the alley beside Templeton’s building.

As she joined them Asmodeus slid an arm around her waist,
tightened it possessively.

The knowledge was there between them, it took only a glance.

“He knows.”

“Knows or guessed,” Asmodeus said. “It doesn’t matter.”

Asmodeus looked at his brother, his trusted right arm and
friend.

As was his habit when he spoke of emotions Ashtoreth looked
outward, across the busy street and the throngs of people there.

He glanced only briefly at Asmodeus and then at Gabriel.

“This world is different from what we knew. The church is
not as strong as it was. There are laws to protect those like us. We have a
chance, finally, to return to this world. You have found your mate. For the
first time in centuries we have hope.” Ash’s haunted and shadowed dark eyes met
Asmodeus’. “And yet, Templeton still seeks the
Book of Demons
,” he said
grimly.

With a sigh, Asmodeus nodded. “Something will have to be
done about that but there is nothing that can be done about it now.”

He looked at Gabriel. That prim suit, with the crisp white
shirt taut across her breasts, and that skirt… He loved that she wore them but
she went through a lot of them. The thought made him grin. Already his cock was
rigid beneath his slacks at the thought.

“So,” Gabriel said with a smile as she turned in his arms to
look up at him and he swung her up into them. “Where would you like to have
lunch?”

Looking into her blue eyes with a smile and a glance at Ash,
Asmodeus said, “Home.”

Gabriel laughed and shook her head at him.

It took only a thought and they were there on the porch of
their cabin in West Virginia, surrounded by the lush green mountains. Above the
birdsong the rustling of the grasses could be heard. And the distant sound of
hammers.

Shaking his head, Ash said with a tight smile, but a smile
all the same, “You’d think he doesn’t see enough of you.”

Impatient, Asmodeus shifted his fated mate and tossed her
over his shoulder, despite her mild protest.

“You wouldn’t think so,” she said and laughed.

“Wait until it’s you, Ash,” Asmodeus said, and with a pang
saw Ash’s expression shutter, saw the pain there and grieved for his friend.

But there was Gabriel over his shoulder.

Asmodeus smacked her bottom sharply and saluted Ash, who
saluted his king in return.

Gabriel smiled and waved goodbye to Ash before the door
closed in front of her, separating them, and Asmodeus’ hand slid beneath her
skirt to stroke her already damp panties. His fingers speared past them and
deep into her pussy.

She moaned as he finger-fucked her slow and deep while he
carried her into the main room, her body going hot as he played with her.

In one motion he pulled his fingers out of her to let her
slide off his shoulder and his clawed hands went to her shirtfront to rip it
open and expose her to him.

She lost more shirts that way but couldn’t bring herself to
regret it much.

Another flash of heat burst through her as he pushed her
back against the dining room table, tugged her bra down from her swollen
breasts and sucked on first one nipple then the other as his tail slid beneath
her skirt. It eeled past her panties. His hands slid up her ribs to push her
breasts higher, to squeeze them. She cried out as he suckled hard at her
nipples, as his mouth tugged to send sharp bursts of pleasure shooting to her
core. In an instant she was drenched. His tail thrust up inside her and she
arched as ecstasy burst through her.

“Tell me you want me, my angel,” Asmodeus demanded with his
hand tight in her hair, drawing her head back, his voice a low growl.

She looked into his whirling ruby eyes, at the bright golden
sparks that danced in them.

“Don’t you know I always want you, Asmodeus? Always. Take
me, Asmodeus. Please.”

His tail pulled out of her to leave her empty but so close
to coming that she cried out even as he spun her around. One hand cupped her
mound while the other dove beneath her skirt and ripped her panties from her.

Then the broad head of his cock slid through her juices
teasingly, another torment. But only for a moment, then it pressed at the tight
sphincter of her ass. She moaned softly in anticipation as his fingers trapped
her clit to pinch and press while his tail fluttered at her pussy.

Heat exploded through her, spun out from his fingers as they
worked her clit while his tail pushed up inside her to rub at her G-spot. Her
body went rigid as pleasure built inside her.

“Asmodeus,” she whispered, as his tail withdrew.

His long, thick shaft entered her slowly and she groaned
deeply as he filled her, inch by long, slow inch.

She arched even as her body stretched to take him and the
hand around her belly slid up to cup her shoulder, to pull her back against his
muscled chest. His hot mouth settled against her throat. His fangs scraped
against her hammering pulse, pressed there.

“I love you,” he whispered against her skin.

One deep thrust of his cock impaled her on it completely as
his fangs pierced her throat. His fingers played with her clit as his venom hit
her bloodstream. The heat of it whipped through her as he fucked her ass hard
and deep, plunging into her.

Gabriel shouted as she came violently in what seemed a
never-ending orgasm.

The sound of her cry of pleasure was music to Asmodeus’ ears
even as the taste of her pleasure erupted into his mouth, as she filled it with
the sweet, hot flavor of her ecstasy. Her pussy clenched around his tail and
her internal muscles flexed wildly as her climax took her. Her ass was
deliciously tight around his throbbing shaft as he fucked it in time to the
rhythm of his mouth sucking on her throat.

Beneath his hands, his body, she bucked with each hard pull
of his mouth. He loved feeding on her, fucking her, couldn’t get enough of her.

For now though, there was the glorious tight sheath of her
ass around his swelling cock as her hips pumped to take his thrusts. He filled
his hand with one swollen breast, tightened his fingers around the nipple and
felt her jolt as he drove deeper into her. Pleasure filled him and he feasted
on her even as he fucked her.

I love you
, he sent, in that most intimate of
communications, as the taste of her, the feel of her swallowed him up.

And I you. So much, Asmodeus
, she replied and her
pleasure exploded through him too, echoed in his mind.

He came with a roar, his cock gushing into her tight, tight
ass, his arms holding her close, his hand held protectively around her belly.

Lying in bed with Gabriel curled warmly against him,
Asmodeus looked out the window, listened to sounds he had not heard in ages.
The chirping of the birds and the rustling of the grasses. From farther off
came the distant sounds of hammers, of good-natured shouts and jibes in a
language that had not been heard in millennia.

Voices of the Daemonae.

His people.

Asmodeus’ spirits lifted even higher.

The first building completed had been a long dormitory. One
day it would be a meeting hall. For now it was a place to rest for those whose
homes had not yet been completed, but who could not bear to return to the sere
and barren world that had been their refuge for so long.

This was their sanctuary now, this green and verdant valley.

In human form they had hosted a picnic for the neighbors,
declaring themselves refugees from some of the war-torn lands to the east. It
wasn’t all that far from the truth.

Maybe, finally and at long last, the Daemonae had come home.

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