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The touch gave her something else she didn’t want. It forced her to experience her connection to Nathan in its full power, a link she’d only be
en able to face in small, controlled pieces on her own. The energy rolled over her and tore her shields away, letting her feel her soul mate’s proximity, every touch she’d shared with him, hear every word he’d uttered. It was like having her skin ripped away a strip at a time. In his presence she felt alive, passionate. She wasn’t lonely. She hadn’t felt that way in so long.
Hadn’t wanted to feel that way, not even now.
Even Nathan, trapped in the evil he’d allowed to take him over, had felt it. She saw it in his eyes, his confusion warring with the frightened rage that stoked his desire to hurt her if she showed a moment of weakness. She cursed the so-called gift of soul mates that allowed her to see the man behind all of it, the man she loved with everything she was.
She touched the energy, weeping. When it withdrew, it did so slowly, not unkindly, leaving her back in the study with Lucifer.
“Yes, he senses it too. But he does not have what he needs to truly understand why he responds to you this way, why he wants so badly to serve you. It’s not your time to be together. He’s got much further to go. ”
“I can help him get on the right path. ” She tasted her tears on the seam of her lips.
“Professional pride, my Lord. I started the task. Please…” She swallowed. “I beg you.
Let me finish it. ”
“I’m afraid it will finish you. ”
She opened her mouth, but He waved her away. “I gave you my word. Go back and see what you can do with him. Just remember, when you’re done, he’s gone. ” His brows drew down. “So are you. It’s time for you to return to living. Your debt is paid and your place is no longer here. ”
“I have a choice—”
“So do I. To fire you. ” His lips curved without humor. “That leaves you nowhere to go but the Hall of Souls. ”
Even she knew when not to argue with the Devil, though her heart seethed with frustration. She nodded, rose to her feet and backed out of the chamber, quelling a very childish urge to slam the heavy oak door, illusion though it was.
Don’t even think of it. I already have a headache from you as it is.
“What will you do? Spank me?” she muttered.
Lucifer sent her spinning out of His plane with a mere flicker of a thought, knowing she’d land hard before the portal to the oasis reality, possibly with palm tree fronds up her defiant backside. The spark of humor that flickered through Him was brief, however. Tossing the goblet into the fire, He curled His lip back in a snarl. “He’s dragging her down, as I said he would. We will destroy her with this madness. ” The flames shifted and He saw Her face there, the suggestion of the body that She’d chosen for the moment.
“You care about her. But this meeting between them was meant to be. Soul mates cannot deny their bonds here. You said as much to her. ”
“This man has dedicated his mortal life to destroying the souls of women. You know what could happen to her soul if it is destroyed by her own soul mate. It’s not him I worry about. The Cycle will take him where he needs to go. ”
“You had to do something. Her soul mate, as immature as he yet is, may do what we have been unable to do. Make her believe that she is deserving of love again.
Perhaps the two of them together can accomplish what they cannot alone. ” The fire flared out, surrounding Him. He passed his fingers through it, feeling Her within as well as without. “Love creates miracles, my Lord. That is what we are. Dona is strong, one of the strongest Mistresses of Redemption who has ever served you. Have faith. ”
“Faith is your department. Justice is mine. ”
Her soft breath touched Him. “Oh, you are so wrong, dearest. How could I have the faith to come out and shine in the fullness of the moon at night if I did not feel the heat of your rays lingering from the daylight warming me? Your justice is balanced by my mercy, but my mercy comes from the love you give me as a gift. For every half a heart there is another heart. You could have cast him into Hell’s fires, but since he is hers, you gave her the choice. You have faith. ”
“Know me so well, do you?” His brow quirked, a mortal gesture, but one She enjoyed, evidenced by the fact She raised fingers of flame that were cool as water and stroked it, reached in and touched the light energy of Him, twining it with Her own.
“As I know my own heart. We are One, as we have always been. ”
* * * * *
They were done. Mariah sat on the grass several yards from Nathan, combing out her copper red hair and watching the leopard play with the fiery ends. They’d released her slave’s head and neck, taken his arms from behind his back and tethered them out to his sides with some slack, but his ankles and thighs remained bound. The D-rings gleamed at his nipples and the head of his cock, making her lust stir despite the emotional upheaval her visit to Lucifer had caused her.
As Dona circled him, she saw the silver of the one in his scrotum. It was just visible under the fold of his cock. They’d cleaned up the blood, but he was pale, bathed in sweat from what she was certain was throbbing, excruciating pain. His jaw was tight, his teeth clamped on a metal bit they’d placed between his teeth and fastened tightly around his head, stretching the corners of his mouth cruelly. Fiona’s doing, she was sure. The leopard woman had an appealing vindictive streak.
Squatting, Dona lifted his semi-erect member and examined the ladder of barbells they’d run all the way up from the base to below the flare of the head. They’d hooked a chain to each bar and latched the end to the scrotum ring so as he became fully erect the tension would pull on all the inserted metal bars, increasing the sensation.
She was tempted to stroke him, see if she could do just that. Holding him like this so intimately, feeling him watching her every movement, unable to speak to her, made her want to do even more. Take him somewhere that wasn’t about Redemption, Hell or anything other than just exploring this fluttery tug of feeling as he watched her.
