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CHAPTER1
Radric
All things between Heaven and Hell. That’s what Earth falls into. The domain of humans and supernaturals seeking to live in peace, find their soulmates and live out their days in that sweet agony with them.
I snort in derision. My job tends to throw a spanner in the works for them.
My eyes dwell on the denizens of our kingdom, smirking at the writhing, groaning, screaming figures tortured by our minions. Otori and Ashmedai smile as they wield the whips that slam down on the backs of the guilty.
Steam and ash rise in the air all around me and I sigh, slightly bored. There’s only so much of this that I can take before I’m ready to head out and find some new trouble to get into.
I stand up and stalk over to the gate, nodding my head at the gatekeeper. He smiles but it’s not a good smile. It’s more a grimace with teeth. Very sharp teeth.
I shift quickly into the form of a Taipan, slithering through the gates and up through the boiling, steaming ground all around me. Nothing around here will touch me. It’s all home to me. Or Hell on Earth.
I come up and out in Magic, Wyoming, not really sure why I’ve come to this small area of the state. I’m usually called to bigger, more populated areas. Areas with the dregs of humanity hiding right in place sight amongst people just looking to live their lives.
As I slither up and through the scrub brush all around me in the mountains, I hear a scream from my right. A scream that makes my blood run hot then cold. There’s something familiar and right about that voice.
Not the fear. I don’t like that. I slither closer, my tongue reaching out to taste the scents in the air. Shifters. Two. One whose scent is almost entirely concealed by the copper of blood. A scent which makes me smile cruelly. Death is my friend, not my enemy.
This death however doesn’t feel right. And the shifter will not be mine. I can feel the angel close by him. An angel that also protects something else. Something pure and delicate. Something mine.
A growling hiss rolls out of my belly and up through my chest as I swiftly morph, bones cracking and breaking cruelly. My body shifts and becomes my human form. I step forward, feeling all my senses dulled but still better than any human beings.
I can scent something other than the angel and it makes my blood run cold. This shifter is another thing entirely. A cloud of foul sulphur smell surrounds him and he’s moving. I can see the heat from his body moving closer to the human female.
The angel Chastity sighs when he sees me coming, his eyes sad and cold. “What are you doing here, Asmodeus? This is not a place for you.”
“Shows what you know,” I hiss. A fiery warmth slowly builds and races from my belly up my spine and straight into my cock, lengthening it painfully.
And that’s when I see her hiding behind the rocks, her pale face and tiny figure full of curves and valleys just begging for my hands, my mouth, my cock.
“Mate,” I hiss. Chastity groans and rolls his eyes.
“No. You cannot have her. She is pure.”
“She is mine.” I don’t care what he says. Don’t care what anyone says. She will be mine. If I have to corrupt the innocent to get what I want, that is what I do.
And it’s never had a better purpose than this. My mate, my future. The female who’s meant to be my everything.
A snarl erupts into the cool, clear night air of the mountains. There’s another scream and that’s it for me. I leap forward and growl as I wrap my hands around the shifter barreling towards my mate.
“What do you think you’re doing?” I snarl.
“Mine,” he growls and snaps at me. Sighing, I slam his head into the ground, hoping to knock some sense into the asshole.
I can see the body of the wolf shifter. He’s been completely mangled and there’s a strange bite mark on his neck like I’ve never seen before. But I can scent the sulfur on him.
“You’re not a shifter.’
His long lips stretch into a sadistic grimace. “Yes, I am. But what are you, demon?”
A smirk twists my lips. “Demon? I suppose you could say that? Or you could call me a prince of Hell. Call me Radric. After all, we know that you’ll be joining me in Hell. Sooner rather than later if you continue on the path that you’re on.”
I lean closer as he snaps at me, his lips twitching and drool dripping from his long, blood-soaked fangs. “And if you touch that female, I’ll drag you to Hell right now.”
He backs away and turns to look at her one more time before he races away, his body low and tight to the ground.
