She wasn’t quaking or crying or begging me to stop this. Instead, she was staring me down with a look that told me she fully intended to put my balls in a vise and squeeze.
I might just allow that.
If she chose to do it while wearing this outfit.
Clearing my throat, I stepped away from her and sent a trickle of fire to burn her coat. She wouldn’t be needing that again.
But I wasn’t done.
I allowed the flames around the center of the room to die into smoky tendrils, revealing my gift to the room—a golden cage.
Camillia didn’t turn to look at it. She didn’t need to because it was now showcased on all the holograms.
At least the Hell Fae can’t touch her in that,Az muttered.
I wouldn’t admit it, but that was why I’d fashioned it—to protect her. Well, more to please Melek, as I knew he wouldn’t enjoy sharing her with all of Hell Fae kind. Just a chosen few.
But watching her in a cage, he would absolutely enjoy doing.
As would I.
“Take her to the stage, Commander,” I told Az, solidifying his punishment. “And let today’s entertainment begin.”
CHAPTER31
AJAX
I’m goingto fucking kill you,I thought at Az.
Not that the bastard could hear me. But he could absolutely feel my fury. Because it was his fucking energy holding me captive.
Not unlike Cami in her damn cage.
Except my imprisonment wasn’t meant to be a statement. Az’s chains were invisible restraints that kept me from doing the one thing my body was screaming at me to do.
To end this.
To free her.
Toclaimher.
If Lucifer was going to punish me for fucking a candidate—penetration is reserved for mates—then I might as well bite her. At least then I could communicate mentally with her and apologize profusely for this situation.
Fucking prick.
I’d expected Lucifer to punish me. To tormentme. Not Cami.
She didn’t deserve this. Yes, she’d touched his source and disappeared for thirty days, but she’d explained that. She’d been honest, even after everything she’d been put through. And she’d been trying to learn how to be a Hell Fae, just like Lucifer had told her to do.
Fuck, all she’d been trying to do wassurvive.
Yet Lucifer punishes her with this?
Forcing her to stand almost naked in front of a crowd of salivating Hell Fae?
Rage seeped through my senses and made every muscle ache. I wanted to break apart the bars with my bare hands and mark Cami with my teeth, declare her as mine, and prove this entire punishment to be a facade.
It was ludicrous.
