Page 62 of Devil Bound
“I had champagne.It’s from France.Did you know, there’s a place in France that’s called like the drink, and when they ship the drink from the place to us and put it in a cocktail for us, it’s called that.Not France.Champagne.”
I smiled, deciding to let him chew on what I had learned while out on a date with Sexy Mitch, who was… I turned my head, but Sexy Mitch wasn’t there.That made sense.This was Lucifer’s bedroom.
The Devil frowned.His hair looked off, but then I realized he was just leaning over me and his bouncy waves were askew.
“There is a region in France where the drink is produced, Nelly.Can you see me?I know humans are susceptible to alcohol poisoning, and it can turn you blind.”
I giggled.He was hilarious, always thinking I was broken.“That’s methanol poisoning, silly.I just had a drink.Two drinks!I ordered another, but…” I gestured, imagining reaching for a glass, but there wasn’t one.Sad.
“Fine.In that case, you’re a lightweight who cannot manage two drinks.Or you failed to keep a close eye on your two drinks.Either way, no more champagne for you today.”
Lucifer’s head floated away again before I could complain about the injustice of him cutting me off from France.He was working my shoes off, I realized.Correction, I was shoeless.His hands went to the front of my pants, and I gasped as I felt him open that button, then move on to the zipper.
That was bad.I knew it was bad.I had an erection.Which…surely there was no way he would’ve seen?I wasn’t even sure why I was hard; Lucy wasn’t that hot.Just sorta, kinda hot-ish.I knew I needed to tell him to get off or get me a towel I could use to hide my boner, but… His fingers brushed my erection, and it was as if a flutter of grave-dirt-dark wings stirred deep inside my chest.
Not that he was hot or anything.
“A shame,” said the Devil in his smooth obsidian nightmare voice.“You’re almost hard, and I would have liked to make you feel me tonight.”
Was he going to…?He was going to, right?Right?
I replayed his words in the spinning auditorium of my mind.Had he said…a shame?
He continued stripping me naked, and I just lay there, mulling over the meaning of it all.Meanwhile, the world was still moving more than it should have been.
With a sudden flash of magic, the lights went off, leaving the room mostly dark.I couldn’t see too well, but once I was completely naked, I heard him gather up my clothes and leave.The bedroom door remained open behind him.
Faint slivers of silver light snuck in, swirling into the maelstrom of vertigo that had me fully in its grasp.I could’ve left and found my way back to the cocktails.Instead, I curled up on my side and sort of wrapped a sheet around me to hide my arousal and the general state of nakedness Lucifer had left me in.
Then I thought hiding was actually fucking stupid, and I turned around again, sat up, and swung my legs out of bed.I would leave, because that was the smart thing to do.Going back to my dragon fins—well, not to the actual dragon fins I’d thrown up, but to Mitch—that was the smart move.Mitch was good for me.Mitch would undress me more tenderly than the Devil ever could, and he would smile at my knowledge of French wines and compliment me.
My head, hell, my entire body, was not on board with leaving.Not only would nothing keep still, not even the ground, but I was also beginning to feel the champagne take a hammer to my temples.Not just a regular hammer either, but one of those with long, curved teeth that break the bone and poke straight into the gray matter underneath.
Still, I was accidentally aroused.I wasn’t sure by what.I really shouldn’t stay here with this boner I was having though, I knew that.It wouldn’t end well with an immortal, no matter how good-looking, good-smelling, or good at magic.I forced my feet to take my weight and took a step away from the bed even as my vision blurred.
“What do you think you’re doing, Nelly?Need to go to the bathroom?I didn’t think you had any more in you to throw up, but humans are ever surprising creatures.”Lucifer.He’d drifted back into the room like smoke, or maybe he had teleported here.Someone should fit him with a bell.
“Fuck you,” I told him, my voice rough enough to grate some primo Parmesan.“I need to pee.”I didn’t really, but I wasn’t going to tell him I’d decided to leave.Heavens knew what he would do.
I heard him rattle around the room and put something on the bedside table.Then he wrapped his arms around my waist and walked me around the bed.His fingers were cool against my skin, but they still filled me with searing need.I shouldn’t have craved him like this.After throwing up like I had, I shouldn’t have been craving anyone.It was probably just the alcohol.
“Need me to hold something for you?”Lucifer’s voice was full of teasing as he switched on the lights in the bathroom.
They were bright, even if I got the sense that the illumination would feel soft if I were any less drunk.The wall that had overlooked the lake and woods earlier was now milky and opaque, meaning this was fancy smart glass, not just your average window wall.The added privacy was great, but being alone would have been better, especially since the glass wall facing the dressing room was still transparent.
“I can fucking manage holding my own dick while I pee.”Damn it, I had meant to snap, but it just came out as a weak statement, possibly halfway to a question.
Lucifer chuckled.“Whatever you say, Nelly.”
Right.I took a step away from him and into the bathroom.There were no real doors, just as I had seen earlier in the day.
I looked over my shoulder, and sure enough, Lucifer stood there, blue eyes sharp as cut diamonds and all over me.Right, because I was naked.At least my erection had gone down, thank all the gods except the one who called himself the Devil.
“Turn around.Or just leave,” I said.
His chuckle sounded like fire crackling in the darkness.“It’s sweet how shy you are, Nelly.I’ll train that out of you eventually.Hmm.Or maybe I’ll grow to like it.I think I prefer you shy rather than trying to get some random human to fuck you.”He turned around.I ground my teeth.
“Mitch isn’t random.I like Mitch.”
