Page 104 of Lifebound

“Excellent!” A clap of hands and my eyes moved to Lorei again. “That is excellent, my friend. And if only you’d have stuck to the rules?—”

“We didn’t choose nor plan to be here with you tonight, Lorei,” Rune cut him off. “An imp transported us against our will.”

Ashy blond brows shot up to the middle of his forehead as he slowly leaned back in his chair and crossed a leg over the other. He wore golden hoop earrings on both ears, and I couldn’t even understand how they looked so good on him.

“Why would he do that?”

“Because I pissed him off.”

I looked at Rune. He hadn’t even met the imp—Ihad pissed him off.

And it was probably the arousal that the air and all these creatures here seemed to emit from their bodies, but I wanted to stick my tongue in his throat until he couldn’t breathe because of it.

God, I was in so much trouble…

“Not very hard to do,” Lorei said. “Which you should have known.”

“I didn’t think he’d be so dramatic,” Rune continued calmly.

“You didn’t thinkan impwould be dramatic?” Lorei laughed. Everyone else joined him, and for a moment there it felt like the entire room was laughing.

Rune wassmiling,too. “Maybe I just wanted to see how dramatic he could be.”

I absolutely adored his confidence in this situation, but something told me that this guy wouldn’t.

“And now you’re here,” he said, his smile slowly fading.

“And in chains. Which seems a bit of overkill. I’m not going to hurt anyone. Icouldn’tif I tried,” Rune continued.

“You’re absolutely right,” said Lorei, and he waved two fingers to nobody in particular, and then the incubi who were behind us were working on the chains wrapped around our wrists.

Holy shit, it had worked.

Hope fell on me like a warm, fuzzy blanket—until I looked up at Lorei and found his eyes on me.

“Is she your slave?” he asked.

Any other day I’d have flipped him the bird. But I’d ended upherebecause I’d picked a fight with someone I wasn’t prepared to fight against, so…

“Yes,” Rune said.

My heart shook my entire body when it tripped all over herself.

“You’ve got a good eye,” Lorei said. “For a face like that, I would be willing to spend a lot, too.”

Oh, God…

“You’re a businessman from what I heard, Lorei,” Rune said. “Can we come to an agreement before the night is over? I have somewhere I need to be.”

Lorei ignored him. “What is she?” he asked instead.

“Noxin,” said Rune—again, without the slightest hesitation.

And the incubus leaned forward again, rested his elbows on his knees, grabbed a grape and popped it in his mouth as he looked at me from under his lashes.

So, so hot in here…

“I don’t think I’ve ever fucked a noxin before—have I?” He then looked at Rogue, the tattooed guy standing to my side.

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