The sun was hot on his skin, warming him down to his bones and chasing away his tension. Amelia slipped her arm around his again and when he looked at her, she smiled brilliantly and with so much love that he couldn’t help himself. He stopped, pulled her into his arms, and slowly explored her soft lips, drawing a quiet moan from her.
She slid her hands over his chest and he frowned when he felt a breeze against his forearms and shins. He drew back to look down at himself. His armour was gone, replaced by a loose pair of black swimming trunks. He glanced at Amelia and his gaze stuck on her when he saw the black bikini barely covering her body and the small black sarong around her waist. She was definitely growing accustomed to abusing her new powers.
Her shy smile gained a wicked edge that he liked and she stepped into him, so her soft body pressed against his again, and tilted her head back, inviting him in for another long drawn out kiss.
Her heart beat steadily against his chest. His heart. She had given it in exchange for his.
“I love you,” he whispered against her mouth, marvelling at the power of those three small words as she smiled at him, affection shining in her grey eyes. Those words had saved them both, had reached deep into his heart and given him strength he never knew he had, and he knew they would always empower him whenever she spoke them. He waited, hesitant and with a trace of nerves running through him. He needed to hear her say them again and feel the effect they had on him.
“I love you too.” She brushed her fingers across his jaw, sweeping them up his face and then into his black hair.
Marcus stared into her eyes, warm water lapping at his feet and the sun relaxing him. It was over for now, but not for ever. One day, Heaven or Hell would come after them, and they had to prepare for that day.
Amelia slipped her hand into his. “I like it here… I’d like to stay for a bit. I know so little about you… and now I feel as though I know so little about myself. I have so much to learn. You trained Lukas once… could you train me? Can you teach me how to fight, and how to fly, and could we stay here a while and just be together, away from the world while I find my feet and learn about you?”
He nodded. She didn’t need to ask. Whatever she commanded, he would carry out. He would do anything for her, even endure irritating sand and water, and he intended to teach her everything he knew. Together they would learn about her powers and the depth of his, and they would hone them until not even God or the Devil himself could defeat them.
“I want to learn about you too.” He cupped her cheek, looking deep into her eyes. “There is so much about you I don’t know.”
“You’ve watched me all my life—”
“I might have watched over you,” he interjected, “but I never really knew you until the night we spoke properly for the first time. I am still learning about you, and it is something we can do together. We will always be together now… I swear it… I will never leave your side.”
“Mmm, I do love the sound of that.” She tiptoed and rewarded him with a kiss that was far too brief and only served to reignite the embers of his desire rather than satisfy his need for her.
Her smile turned mischievous.
His wings shrank into his back without him ordering them to do so.
Marcus looked down at her hand when she started walking towards the water and then into her eyes. “I cannot swim, remember?”
Her smile didn’t falter. “Then someone should teach you. I’ll teach you how to swim if you teach me how to fly and how to use my powers.”
He wasn’t sure about allowing her to teach him how to swim.
It didn’t seem very manly to have such lessons from a woman and he wanted her to always see him that way. The look in her eyes said she wasn’t going to relent and it brought a smile to his face. That was his Amelia. Never one to back down. She was going to teach him whether he liked it or not and something told him that she wasn’t above ordering him to obey if he tried to refuse.
His mind raced back to the night they had last been in the water together and where things had gone after that, and he stalked towards her, forcing her backwards until she was waist deep. Her eyes widened, cheeks colouring as her pupils dilated, and she held her hands up. Marcus grabbed her, dragged her through the warm water and up against him, and kissed her.
She moaned into his mouth, her hands pressing into his shoulders, and wrapped her legs around his waist.
This, he could get used to.
If all of his swimming lessons were going to be like this, he would willingly subject himself to them, and he would stay here with her for as long as it took for him to learn. Which, right now, was feeling like years rather than days. He could be a slow learner when he wanted to be.
Marcus gently kissed her, taking his time as he held her against him, the water lapping at their bodies and gently rocking them. He couldn’t believe everything that had happened to him over the past few weeks, and how much his world had altered.
How much he had changed.
He had always thought that it wasn’t possible for him to change, that he would forever be loyal to Heaven and would never want anything to do with mortals, but Amelia had proven him wrong. She had altered his loyalty, stealing his heart for herself, and shaken his world to its foundations, rebuilding it with each kiss and stolen glance, and now he could only think of her. She was his world. His angel. She had given him back everything that Heaven had taken from him, and so much more besides. She had made him into a good man, and he finally felt as though he was worthy of her.
He loved her.
And he would always be with her, wherever she went, whatever she did. He would be there to protect her.
Always.
Her knight.
Her guardian angel.
The End
Her Demonic Angel
A demonic angel with a heart of ice, Veiron walks a dark path with vengeance on his mind. Nothing will sway him from his mission to destroy his master... until he risks his life to enter Hell once more to save a mortal female. The fiery beauty makes him burn with hungers he must battle and needs he cannot deny, tempting him to surrender body and soul to her.
Erin is convinced her refusal to do the Devil’s bidding will see her die in a terrifying realm straight out of her nightmares. The last thing she expects is the lethally sensual warrior who breaks into her cell and awakens the darkest desires of her heart and a fierce longing to know the heat of his caress.
Pulled into an incredible world where war is set to ignite and darkness is on the rise, Erin races with Veiron to escape the Devil’s legions in a journey fraught with danger and filled with passion that flares white-hot.
When Erin is faced with a life-shattering realisation and an extraordinary destiny, will their love give them the strength to battle both Heaven and Hell or will they be parted forever?
Table of Contents for HER DEMONIC ANGEL
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
CHAPTER 1
It was the Devil who took her.<
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Erin was sure of it.
It was the Devil who had come in the dead of night, entering the bedroom of her loft apartment like black mist to take her as she slept.
And he wasn’t red all over or had hooves and horns like in movies or fables.
He was immense, with skin as black as coal, eyes that shone red like car brake lights and the wings of a dragon curling from his back.
He had brought her here to a fiery, broken and inhospitable land where perpetual tormented screams chased every shred of calm and peace from her soul and the air was so thick with the stomach-turning stench of sulphur that she couldn’t breathe.
It was Hell.
At first, Erin had thought the whole event was a vivid and disturbing nightmare, worse than any she had experienced before, but she had hurt herself on one of the shards of black rock that formed the floor and the three walls of her cell and she hadn’t woken.
And then they had hurt her too.
The Devil had come alone at first, entering her cell to glare at her in silence and ignore her pleas to tell her what he wanted with her. Not a word had left his wide black lips. The only time she had gained a response from him was the one instance she had felt brave enough to stand up to him and had tried to force him to speak. Then, he had bared sharp crimson teeth at her and hissed. She had fallen on her backside trying to escape him, afraid that he would attack her, and had cut her palms and scraped the soles of her bare feet as she had crab-crawled away from him.
Now, he no longer came alone.
Now, she no longer feared him.
She couldn’t muster that emotion whenever he visited her. Fear had given way to anger, leaving her brave enough to face death in order to get some answers.
Two other smaller but similar creatures accompanied him. None of them spoke. They didn’t even flinch when she hit them in an attempt to make them talk and tell her what they wanted with her, bashing her fists against their thick limbs and the granite band of stomach exposed between their red-edged black chest armour and the strips that protected their hips. She wanted to punch them in the face but they towered over her, at least three feet taller than she was. Several times, she had struck them hard in the groin but each had only gained her pain rather than satisfaction. They were quick to retaliate, slamming meaty arms into her stomach and sending her crashing into the rough black walls of her prison.
Each visit lasted only fifteen minutes or was it longer? She had lost track of time in this hellish place. Minutes seemed like hours.
Erin was too tired to hit them now. Hunger had set in she didn’t know how many days or weeks ago and now she was so weak that her head swam and she spent most of her waking hours hallucinating about food. Petrified pained screams rang in her ears as she sat near the open wall of her black cell, staring wearily into the hazy fiery distance. The black jaw-length jags of her hair hung across one side of her face, stinking of boiled eggs. The smell had invaded everything. Her small black sleep shorts and tank top, every inch of exposed dirty skin, and her mind too. She closed her eyes and leaned her head back against the jagged wall behind her, too tired and hungry to sleep, using all of her strength to keep breathing.
They would come soon.
She hadn’t seen them in what might have been a day.
There was no sky in the view from her cell. Just an endless black vault above her, and fields of lava and brimstone as far as the eye could see several hundred feet below.
Erin inhaled slowly and smelled steak.
She frowned. Steak. She swore she could smell it.
Someone had invented a new form of torture. The scent of juicy frying meat wafted through the huge open wall and before she could consider what she was doing, she was standing at the edge of the floor and staring down into the glowing abyss. Hot air battered her as it rose from the inferno below. Her vision swam from the heat and her hunger, causing the sheer cliff face to wobble and distort.
Her mouth watered.
Her stomach growled.
The door at her back opened and she turned sharply. Her foot slipped on the loose stones at the edge.
Before her gasp could escape her lips, a man was holding her with one arm snaked around her back, bending over her. She stared down, wild eyes watching the rocks bouncing off the endless black cragged cliff and disappearing into the fiery river below. Her heart hammered erratically against her chest and she instinctively grabbed the man’s arms, desperate to save herself from following the rocks and afraid that he might drop her over the edge.
“Careful,” the man whispered close to her ear, his voice deep and exotic, sending a strange hot shiver through her. He righted her, kept one hand on her arm and led her away from the edge.
Erin stared at her handsome saviour, mind racing to catch up with everything that had happened in the past few seconds. He still held her arm, his smile perfect though lacking emotion and golden eyes bright and alluring. She couldn’t take her eyes away from them and the longer she stared into them, the more relaxed she felt.
His sensual smile widened and he released her arm, preened the longer tendrils of his black hair back from his face, and then frowned at his hand. Touching her had dirtied it. His expression curled into one of disgust and he turned his back on her.
The heavy compliant feeling that had been building inside her disappeared in an instant and the delicious scent of food assaulted her.
Her gaze snapped to the door and the source of the tempting smell.
The Devil.
He stood there flanked by the two smaller creatures like him, his glowing red eyes fixed straight at her over the head of the elegant man now strolling towards him. The two of them couldn’t have looked more different to each other. The Devil was a beast, black-skinned and huge, his massive dragon-like wings furled against his back, and his body barely covered by crimson-edged obsidian armour. The man was all dark beauty and refinement, dressed sharply in a black suit that highlighted his pale, flawless skin and glossy black hair.
The man waved his hand and the Devil held something out to him.
A tray with a very elegant domed silver plate cover on it.
Erin realised her mistake.
Not the Devil, but a servant.
Erin stared at the man as he took the tray from the beast she had thought was the Devil, removed the cover with a flourish, revealing the most amazing and mouth-watering food she had ever seen, and turned to hold it out to her.
Tempting her.
He was the Devil.
Erin backed away on instinct, aware that before her stood a man who had made her feel compliant by only looking into her eyes and behind her was a sheer drop to a very painful death. She swallowed, heart hammering, and clenched her fists, determined to stand her ground. She had feared the three demonic creatures that had regularly visited her cell but she hadn’t let them get the better of her, and she hadn’t let her captivity break her. She wasn’t going to let this man sweep in and do in seconds what they had failed to do in days.
She straightened and glared at him, lifting her chin in defiance. She was strong. Brave. Her limbs trembled but she refused to let her fear show. The Devil surely thrived on the fear of his victims and making them suffer. He would get no satisfaction from her.
“I apologise for the way you have been treated, Erin,” he said, his deep voice sending another burst of heat over her skin. The sickening feel of it distracted her from what he had said but the moment it had passed, she frowned.
He knew her name.
Erin supposed that shouldn’t surprise her. He was the Prince of Darkness after all. It answered one of the questions that had plagued her during her captivity. He had come specifically for her.
“What do you want with me?” She stood her ground as he moved a step closer, still holding the tray out to her.
“Why don’t you have a seat and enjoy this meal, and we will discuss why I desired your company.”
Erin frowned. “There is nothing to sit on besides the f
loor.”
He smiled and a large dark carved wooden table appeared behind him, followed by two matching tall-backed chairs with black padded seats. He bowed his head and swept an arm towards them.
“Is this better?” he said and set the tray of food down on the table. “Whatever comforts you desire are yours to have.”
For a price, no doubt. Erin didn’t move. She didn’t trust this man. If she sat on the chair, it would probably wrap itself around her to trap her or something bizarre like it. Her head reasoned that if he wanted to hurt her, he could probably do so without tying her up first. He was the Devil, and he had already shown her that all he had to do was stare into her eyes and she started thinking about doing whatever he asked of her.
“Come, Erin.” He held his hand out to her, the sleeve of his crisp black jacket pulling back to reveal the cuff of his equally dark shirt and glittering jet-black cufflinks. “I have apologised for your treatment, have I not? Can we not talk like civilised people?”
“No, thank you. Your goons took me in the middle of the night and you’ve been holding me in this cell for God knows how long.”
The Devil hissed, his straight white teeth sharpening to points and his eyes burning red.
Erin backed away another step.
He smoothed his hand over his black hair and cleared his throat. The crimson drained from his golden eyes. “I apologise. That word does not sit well with me.”
“What word... oh... God?”
He snarled and was before her in an instant, his fingers closed around her throat and choking her, sharp black claws digging into her skin. He released her as quickly as he had grabbed her and distanced himself.
Erin couldn’t move. She had gone rigid, frozen to her core, the moment he had launched himself at her. Her heart felt as though it wasn’t beating.
Note to self. Never speak about God in the presence of the Devil.
“Self-righteous bastard,” the Devil spat and snarled again, pacing away from her, his body shifting with the sensual and lethal grace of a predator. He turned red eyes on her and frowned. “You would do well not to believe in such a malevolent conceited creature. Now, sit!”
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