Page 2 of Hell Bound

“As for you, Prince Morningstar, now you understand the consequences of spitting on my hospitality. You will suffer alongside her for eternity.” Asmodeus smiled at me, raising his scarlet-gloved hand to bring the whip down once more.

It cracked along Lilith’s spine, and she sagged in her bonds. The last hollow thump of her heart broke something in me.

Roaring fury burst through me, forcing the shift.

Pain ripped through me, exploding from my guts and filling my head and limbs. Magic chains slithered around my body, unseen but constricting, sinking in through skin and bone.

The wolf tore out of me, my skin splitting as he forced his way free. Hellfire burned through my veins, boiling my blood to ash.

Beside me, Felix and Aquila writhed in their own wolf forms, howling as the pain in my head blasted through theirs.

I was screaming. Roaring.

But all I could hear was the absence of Lilith’s heartbeat as Asmodeus’s curse ravaged me.

The King dropped the whip next to Lilith’s body. He was laughing, sadistic chuckles rumbling through the room.

But she would have the last laugh. I held onto that as I dropped onto all fours, fingernails shredding away in place of claws, snarls ripping from my chest.

He might possess me.

But the queen was finally free.

Chapter1

Lilith

20 Years Later…

Idon’t know which surprised me more: the hand Eric tried to force up my dress, or the blood that sprayed from his throat as his head was torn from his body.

To be fair, he’d been a complete gentleman until that point, so the attempted pussy-grab had come out of nowhere. When he’d leaned in to kiss me, it had taken me off guard.

My instinct to push him away beat at me, but I fought through it.

What’s wrong with me?

All my life, I’d balked when a man touched me, and I never understood why. I was supposed to be attracted to them, right? To want their hands on my body, touching my most intimate places and bringing me ecstasy.

So when Eric’s lips touched mine, I made a decision.

This was it.

This was going to be the time that finally broke my streak of utter disappointment. Iwouldenjoy this kiss. And then I’d let him take me home and he would be the first man ever to bring me to orgasm.

My mind scoffed at that, but there was a first time for everything, right?

God, I hoped so.

Only now there wouldn’t be a first time.

Eric’s hands had gone to my hips the second my lips parted to allow him entry, and again I pushed back the instinct to step away from his grasp.

He took my lack of refusal as a green light, it would seem, because one hand dropped to the hem of my dress and pushed upward. Despite me grabbing his wrist to halt his progress, he continued on the path to the apex of my thighs.

I wrenched my lips free. “Eric, wait, don’t.”

“I’m done playing games, baby. You kept making me work for it, and I went along with that.” He nipped my earlobe hard enough to make me wince. “Don’t you think I’ve earned it?”

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