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"Did you smell me on her?" I licked my lips as I held his stare.
He didn't pretend that he didn't know who I was referring to. His face became serious. "If you plan on hurting her, you'll have to answer to me."
I rolled my eyes and glanced down the bar at the other customers before I answered him. "I had wanted the opposite, if I’m honest." If he noticed the past tense he didn’t act like it. Maybe it was the bartender in him, ready to listen.
"She won't kill you."
"That is yet to be seen." My fingers tapped absently against the wooden surface. Not that I would welcome it now, ironic really.
"I'm serious. She knows it would cause a war."
"That doesn't mean it won't happen," I replied, finally looking back at him. "Tell me why you are no longer friends with Alastor."
He narrowed his gaze at the new topic of conversation. "Alastor is a prick."
"Tell me something I don't know." My tail whipped against the stool next to me, and I let it beat out my feelings the way I wanted to lay into the God earlier.
He sighed. "We had our differences. What happened between you two?"
"How long do you have?"
He glanced at the neon clock on the wall behind him and turned back to me. "We close soon. You can tell me over a proper drink. If you stick around."
I needed a friend, and it felt like Lex could be one, so I stayed as he cleaned up and the bar emptied. He paused across from me and poured us both some top shelf liquor, and then he settled next to me. We shared our mutual stories and bonded over what a jerk Alastor was in the past. Although he hadn't changed much since then, if anything, he was worse. Yeah, I was like a ghost in his hotel suite, but that was because it beat sleeping in an alley.
A silence fell between us as we both thought of everything that we had shared. It was then that became aware of it, a pinprick of awareness. It wasn't often I went for a man to feed on. Their emotions were so hard to pull out of them, and it sometimes made it difficult. But their forms were attractive to me. Lex wasn't the type I usually found desirable, but knowingthat he was aware of it too made the little spark grow into a steady flame as we watched each other.
"I love Samantha," he said.
"Are you exclusive?" I asked, thinking back on how she had come apart in my arms earlier and practically begged me to take her before she almost died. I should focus on closing that portal and eliminating the demons that would be a danger to her.
"No."
"Well, you're in luck, because I'm not looking for your love." My gaze dipped to his mouth as he wet his lips. Lust flared to life in my belly, tightening my balls and lengthening my cock inside my pants.
"I shouldn't," he protested.
"If it makes you feel any better, I left her in the arms of Alastor tonight."
"What? Why?" He shot off the stool, and the distance between us lessened. It wasn't his intention, but my tail had a mind of its own as it slipped up his leg.
"She almost died. But she is all better now, probably resting in the protection of his penthouse hotel room," I said it simply. But I saw my mistake as soon as he paled. Of course, he would feel the emotions that I knew I had felt as she bled out in my arms.
"How?"
"The horde attacked us while we were distracted," I said.
"You were feeding on her out in the open?"
"The opposite, actually. Your non-girlfriend was trying to change my mind and get me to lose my clothes. She's pretty convincing when she’s determined."
"You're saying that you didn't feed on her tonight?" Doubt was written all over his face as he narrowed his gaze at me.
My tail tightened on his leg as he tried to step back. "Would I still be hungry if I had?"
His nostrils flared as he caught the scent of my incubus ability, the pheromones that made anyone want me. They didn't work on Gods or demigods, so he was safe from them, but if he knew anything about the type of demon I was, he would know that when I fed, they weren't that strong.
"How long has it been?"
