As a demon, I did expect her to be more open to this, but she’d been human for more of her life than not. She’d probably expected to meet someone, date for a while, get engaged, and then get married.
“I know you weren’t expecting to have sex and have your life tied to another, and neither was I, but we can’t change it,” I said.
Her nostrils flared as she leaned closer to me. Despite the rage she radiated, I found myself entranced by her when red flickered through her eyes. I suspected that red was another new development of her newfound demonhood. I probably should have been concerned I’d pushed her too far, she had de-nutted a demon after all, but I couldn’t tear my gaze away from hers.
“I don’t care who you are; you don’t own or control me. If I decide it’s going to change, then it will change,” she said.
“The Chosen bond unites us for the rest of our lives.”
“That doesn’t mean we have to shack up and start playing house together. You can go on about your life, and I can go on with mine ifIchoose to.”
My teeth grated together as I tried to navigate this minefield. I wanted to bend her to my will, but that was impossible. If I attempted to order her around, she’d only pull further away. My Chosen was a stubborn, infuriating woman, but I couldn’t help admiring her. She was a fighter, and scared, and if I pushed her too far, we’d fight each other for the rest of our days.
I hadn’t known her long, but she’d made it clear she knew what she wanted. She wasn’t a woman who wavered; she was a woman who set her sights on something and got it. If she decided to spend six months without me, she would do it no matter how unhappy it made us.
“Neither of us expected this to happen, but now we have to learn to live with it,” I said. “And constantly fighting each other will make for an eternity of misery.”
Her eyes remained narrowed on me, and those cute little fangs were still on display, but her body relaxed, and the red vanished from her eyes. However, I sensed she’d hit me if I said the wrong thing. The only problem was, I didn’t know the right thing to say.
“We may not have expected this, but we should make the most of it,” I said.
“And what does that mean?”
What did that mean? Unable to resist, I rested my hand against her cheek and ran my thumb over her lips while I pondered her question. And then I said the words that probably no other canagh demon had ever uttered.
“It means we get to know each other better… outside of the bedroom.”
She quirked an eyebrow, but I saw a tiny smile tugging at the corners of her lips. “And what if we discover we hate each other?”
The possibility of an eternity with a woman I despised made my stomach clench. What if the two demons in the Chosen relationship hated each other? I’d never considered the possibility before; I’d only ever seen them in love. However, it could be possible they started out hating each other, or that centuries of telling the same demon to pick up their socks made them ready to kill.
I would rather spend the rest of my life alone than with someone I loathed and who hated me in return. Unfortunately, I didn’t have that option.
“That’s something we’ll deal with if it happens,” I said. “But so far, I like what I know about you.”
She rolled her eyes. “You only know what it’s like to fuck me.”
I leaned closer to whisper in her ear. “And I’ve more than liked every second of it.”
Grasping her hand, I enclosed it on my hardening cock. For the first time since becoming a canagh demon, I wasn’t ravenous, but I still couldn’t get enough of her. She melted against me before pulling away.
“No,” she said as she released my shaft. “You said we should get to know each other betteroutsideof the bedroom, and we’re going to do that. No more touching.”
I bit back my groan of disappointment and leaned back, but I kept my hand on her hip until she lifted it and rested it on the bed. She patted it before she removed her hand. I could almost taste her desire as her nipples tightened, and I imagined bending my head to kiss her flesh.
Seeming to sense my thoughts, she flung back the blankets and scooted down the mattress to the end of the bed. Rolling onto my back, I propped myself against the headboard as she jumped up. I admired the sway of her hips and firm ass as she strode over to the closet.
Chapter Fourteen
Hawk
She pulled open the closet doors to reveal a couple of my shirts and pants within; she removed a shirt and slipped it on. The bottom brushed her knees and exposed the curve of her breasts as she buttoned it. She had no idea seeing her in my shirt only made her more alluring, and I wasn’t going to tell her as I folded my hands behind my head.
“I also know you’re a fighter,” I said. “At any time, you could have given up in that battle.”
“And died.”
“But you didn’t.”
