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“You messed with my head,” Elias accuses. “You want me to fucking pity the abomination.”
Annoyance grows inside me, and I climb across the bed, dodging out of Kase’s way. I slip under Dante’s arm and get into Elias’s face, meeting his eyes dead on. He stills under my closeness, sending my body buzzing. I nearly throw myself back. The intensity is too much. But like I’m trapped in some sort of magnetic hold, I can’t break away. All I can do is stare into Elias’s stormy gray eyes and how they look almost silver in the light.
“Elias, please. I don’t know what happened to us, but I do know what will happen to me if you don’t accept that what you remember is true. My soul depends on you. I depend on you. Please, if you won’t make a deal with my devils, then make one with me. As much as you piss me off and get under my skin, I wouldn’t wish your soul burning with mine when we can help each other.” I search his gaze for something, anything, to let me know that my words get to him, but he remains expressionless.
“You can’t honestly want to deny the chance to free your soul from a demon,” Kase says, his growly voice rumbling across my shoulder as he leans in to peer at Elias from behind me.
“Going from one demon to another isn’t freeing my soul. I know how contracts work. I want fucking redemption.” Elias tightens his scruffy jaw.
“We don’t want your soul. Just your mortality,” Dante says. He moves even closer, looming over Elias. “In exchange, we will free you from your demonic contract.”
“That sounds shitty. I want more.” Elias turns his attention to me, his eyes narrowing. The greedy bastard. “I want you to treat me like an equal. Give me one helluva good time until the end of my life, my own room, anything I can think to ask for...and time with my soulmate.”
“Fuck no,” Kase and Dante say in unison. “She’s ours.”
Be still, my black heart. I love how automatic their denial was in regards to me. “They’re right. I’m not something to possess. I want the same thing as you—my soul free from Hell’s binds.”
“Do we have a deal or not?” Elias asks, narrowing his eyes at the three of us. “Those are my terms.”
Red fire ignites in Kase’s palms, and I throw myself at him, knocking him on his back. I shove my palms into his thighs and push upright, giving Dante one look. He flashes his fangs at me, but doesn’t say anything. I hate to use the possibility of sex against him, but it’s a real motivator and gets him to keep himself in check as he desires to prove he doesn’t let his envy control him.
“Time does not mean sex, being your slave to do your bidding, or anything like that, understand?” I say, my heartbeat picking up speed. “I don’t even have to talk to you if I don’t want to.”
Elias dips his chin. “Don’t worry. I’m not some twisted as fuck demon. The only thing I want from your time is to get you away from them. You deserve a moment of not being under their constant control and demands. Maybe you’ll see things clearly.”
Is he for real? “Are you k—”
“Is it a deal or not?” he asks, locking his gaze on mine.
I sigh and look at my devils. It could be worse, right? “Fine, whatever. You have yourself a deal.”
Chapter 9
Demon Bait
DANTE
“COME ON, ANGEL-GIRL. Don’t be a tease.” Kase’s voice trickles from his cracked open bedroom door.
Raven squeals and laughs. “Watch your fucking tail, or I’ll tie it in a knot.”
I stop short, seeing one of my cock rings hanging on the handle. That fucker. I leave the room for ten minutes to shower, and he takes advantage by declaring he’s taking some alone time with our girl. Sure, it might be his day, but I endured torture during my time with Raven all because she didn’t want Elias seeing us getting it on in the living room, and Kase would want to join in his room. It might be petty that I want her to myself, but I can’t see things going as perfect as I want them to otherwise. Kase is more dominant out of the two of us, and he will control both Raven and me. It’s not worth the power struggle.
“Twist it, tie it, suck it, fuck it. I love all the ways you think you can punish me.” Kase purrs deep in his throat. “We have to pass the time somehow until our sources get back to us.”
Clenching my hands into fists, I swivel on my feet and stare at the living room. If that’s what we’ve been waiting on, then it’s time for a better plan. Kase doesn’t mind waiting around, but I’m fucking tired of having to resort to hanging out in my least favorite area of the apartment now that Raven abandoned sleeping alone on the couch. I’m sure Kase will devour the rest of his time with our girl, considering she’s supposed to hang with Elias next.
“How about we go angel watching instead?” Raven asks, her comment helping to ease the jealousy rising inside me. It’s like she can sense it and chooses not to test me, for which I’m thankful. “As much as I have fun riding you like the beast you are, if we start, I won’t want to stop. It’ll cause problems in approximately four hours and twenty-seven minutes.”
Kase groans and something thuds against his bedroom wall. “Elias is a lucky bastard that we can’t kill him. You deserve a powerful devil and not some half-alive mortal who has as much sex appeal as your father in a speedo.”
“Kase, ew!” Raven laughs again.
“If you think that thought is gross, let me get started on your uncle L—” Something cuts off Kase’s teasing, and I hear Raven’s whispery voice offer him a deal.
I rub the back of my neck and wait until I can hear a soft moan from Raven. They’re not getting it on, but she’s giving Kase the affection I crave.
Forcing my attention away from their bedroom, I redirect my focus on the bigger problem in my existence. It’s already been three fucking days since Elias made Raven the deal without consulting me and Kase. And because the dickwad was already in my room, I had no choice but to suck it up and let him remain there—not like Elias could stay anywhere else. It’s the only room without an easy exit. Sure, he could try to climb through the window, but he’d step right into a trap I set to keep bastard Hell-bound souls out. No matter what, I’m over it. I want my space back, and the only way to get it is to find the demon who owns his soul.
