Page 177 of Hell Bound

“If you’re captured and I can’t get to you—”

“Then don’t let us be captured!”

“I don’t intend to, but—”

“No buts! We’re both doing the best we can. And if we stay here and get caught, do you think I’ll be able to forgive myself for what will happen to you when we get back to the court?”

“And what about what happens to you?” His yell was louder than my own, the hellfire fully breaking free.

“I don’t care!”

“I fucking do!” He snatched me by my shoulders, hauling me up onto my toes. “I can’t watch you die again! I won’t survive it, and neither will anyone else. I love you more than my life or anyone else’s, more than all of Hell itself.”

The truth of his words blazed between us. He wasn’t only talking about Asmodeus and Odragir. He meanteveryone.

Deasley, Pyp, Jovran, Killian. All casualties of the explosion that would come from him.

He stared into my eyes, breaths heaving. He finally began to lower me after a long moment had passed in silence.

My feet made full contact with the ground, and he dropped his hands back to his side.

The second he did, my arms were up and around his neck, my lips crashing onto his. His love for me was the mirror of what I felt for him. I didn’t have the power to wreak my vengeance like he did, but if I did, Hell wouldn’t stand a chance.

There was no hesitation as he grabbed me to him. My legs went around his waist and his hands slipped under my ass, gripping me tight enough to leave finger-shaped bruises.

Just the thought made me rock my hips against him in a desperate hunger.

We devoured each other, kissing hard enough to make our teeth clatter, our tongues sparring for dominance. I pulled back when my lungs begged for breath, gasping against his lips.

My sex throbbed in anguished emptiness. For so long we’d been dancing on the razor’s edge of being caught, risking death for just a taste of one another. But now…

“I need you,” I moaned, still rolling my hips in a near constant motion now. “I can’t wait anymore, I need you inside me.”

He answered with a groan of his own, his big hands aiding my hips as we teetered on this precipice, ready to go over.

Which way would we fall?

“We can’t do this now, Lily, the danger is too great.”

I lowered one hand and thrust it between us, running my palm along the hard ridge of his cock. He had me too high to get it where I wanted it so it was the best I could do.

“Fuck the danger. Fuck everything but this.” Well, definitely fuck everythingincludingthis. Namely, me.

“Lilith, I—”

“And if we die? If this is the only chance we’ll ever have to be together?” I put everything I was feeling into my eyes as they bored into his. “You have memories of us together, but I don’t. Not even secondhand memories from my former life. Would you let me go through this life without ever knowing what it means to be with the man I love?”

His head fell back, and I knew I was on the verge of getting what I needed so desperately from him. Pressing my advantage, I laved the column of his throat with my tongue, tasting his skin and drawing a sharp inhale from him.

“I need you to make love to me, Lucifer.” I kissed my way from the base of his throat to his ear lobe, taking it between my teeth and giving it a sharp nip. “And I needyouto fuck me, Wolf.”

That last whisper got what I wanted. A fierce growl tore from his chest and we were heading to the ground in a heartbeat. I slid from his grasp before he could do something crazy like rip the only clothing I had off of me.

Stepping back, I untucked the long shirt, sliding it up and over my head slowly, revealing one inch of my bare flesh at a time. I could swear I heard his heartbeat thundering from where I stood. I tossed my shirt to the side, ensuring it was out of the path of destruction if things got… rough.

Holy Hell, I hope they get rough.

My pants went the way of my shirt, revealing my body completely.

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