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“Twelve of your cheapest necklaces,” a squat zonath demon says.
“Oh,” Hanna prods, watching the demon feel the cold silver links. “What are you going to do with all of those?”
“I’m enchanting them.”
His response is curt, his eyes wandering back to me as I laugh under my breath. I would never bother to kill a zonath demon. Their living conditions are abhorrent, their opportunities bleak and few.
And they could never pose a challenge to me. It wouldn’t be a fair fight.
Finally, I feel like I can focus on the ledger. I’m able to zip through it while the rush of customers dissipates. Eventually, we’re left with an empty stall. The quiet is almost unnerving.
But even while focusing, my mind turns back to the occasional stray, intrusive thought.
She wanted to fuck him, it chides me. If you didn’t kill him then and there, she was going to succumb to him.
Hanna walks back to me, holding a large bag of currency. It’s a luxurious sum for our high-end business. “Pretty good turn-out today,” she says, looking down at the burlap bag.
I look up from the ledger, my nostrils flaring. “So,” I say, setting aside the documents. “About that customer earlier.”
Her eyes shift from side to side, regarding the mangled body still on the floor. “Well, it’s not really like I had a choice, did I?” she asks. “I know my rank.”
“That’s not what I’m asking.”
She raises her eyebrow in confusion. I can feel her heating up, but I’m not sure if she’s more nervous or aroused.
“You didn’t have to stand your ground like that,” I say. “He could have killed you.”
My eyes study her body, running from her delicious neckline to her noticeable cleavage. I’m so tempted to pin her to the counter and remind her why she’s mine.
But I still see the eyes of passersby looking in, most focused on the body visibly apparent on the ground behind Hanna.
I have nothing to prove to them. And they’ve done nothing to earn the spectacle.
“So why did you stand your ground?”
She smiles meekly. “I knew you’d take care of him for me. So I wasn’t worried about it.”
She stares down at the dried blood, which will take some effort to clean up now.
“And I didn’t want to cause any trouble,” she adds quietly. She bites her lip.
I clean up the body in a hurry, and we rush back home.
These jealous thoughts still plague my mind, running uncontrolled through me. I imagine the crowd of demons having their way with her.
I need to purge these thoughts.
I carry her through my home, up to her bedroom door.
I need to remind her why she’s mine, and nobody else’s.
I pin her against her bedroom door, kissing her aggressively. She puts up no resistance.
Then I lean into her, whispering and letting my long tongue encircle her earlobe.
“I’m going to fuck you like none of those other demons could.”
I lean in deeper, breathing in and kissing her neck. “Do you want that? Do you want me inside you?”
