Ablaze by Dahlia Rose Page B

the eyes watching as he stripped. Her scent was like an aphrodisiac as he grabbed her into his arms. Usually he put more finesse into his lovemaking endeavors. Right now he just wanted to be inside her and feel her take him in. He pushed out with his feet and shot into the sky as he fused them together with a searing kiss.
    They soared, and he thrust his cock inside her as soon as her legs were wrapped around his waist. He moaned in ecstasy as her body accepted him like a soft glove. It was like being encased in liquid velvet, and somehow he knew he would never be the same after this coupling. Each thrust shot pleasure through him like lava through his veins. In his ear Hailey whispered his name, and her voice caressed his entire being. This had to be pleasure in its purest form.
    Unable to help himself, Pennemuel threw his head back and cried out. Their pace quickened, and instead of claws or nails raking flesh off his back, her hands seemed to hold him tighter to her and massaged his bunched muscles. Along with the need and the passion, she was comforting him. He felt her pussy clench with her release and followed suit. He spilled his hot seed inside her, and she pressed soft kisses against his neck. The aftermath of their lovemaking left them spent. The force that held them in flight as their bodies coupled left them. In each other’s embrace they plummeted from the sky not making a sound. Pennemuel turned quickly so his body took the major impact when they hit the roof. The cement shattered around him, and his body made an indent where he landed. From that he heard the cracking as fault lines radiated outward from where they’d landed.
    She snuggled against him, and he wrapped his arms around her protectively. It was then his eyes widened in surprise and he knew. He felt what her cryptic words had meant before. There’s a price to pay… and so there was. In the taking of Hailey’s body, she had taken his soul. Pennemuel knew instantly that to leave her would be like a self-inflicted wound. He couldn’t let her fate designated by heaven or let the demons who he knew would debase her in hell.
    “You feel it now,” she whispered.
    “Yes!” His voice was harsh and broke on that one simple word.
    Hailey rose and looked into his eyes, and he felt himself lost in her gaze. “What do you feel, Penn? Tell me.”
    “I will never say it, never submit to it!” he cried out.
    “Then what shall we do?”
    He tunneled his hands into her hair and kissed her fiercely. “You’re mine; they can’t have you. Either side.”
    She repeated the question quietly, “What shall we do, Penn?”
    “I don’t know. We fight, and I’ll help you protect him,” he responded. The words were torn from his throat.
    Hailey laid her head back against his chest. “Imagine an angel and demon on the same side for the same cause.”
    He could hear the smile in her voice, and he gritted his teeth. The one word that explained it all came from his lips. “Fuck!”

 
    Chapter Two
     
    The sounds of the city surrounded him like a blanket. Even though the noise usually soothed him, now it just seemed to fuel his anger. A week in and he’d not been back to the underworld. He was branded as a traitor, and there was a bounty on his head in hell. One million credits, dead or alive, and he’d dispatched with vicious ease the few that came trying to claim it. It was a kind of message, really, to let them know he was not going down without a fight. It didn’t help that he was stuck between two very big rocks. He had the angel and her charge that he now protected on one side and hell on the other. Fate had dealt him a cruel hand indeed. Now he was walking alone topside searching for a new safe house for the three of them. The last one had been breeched, and they’d had to fight their way out. Who knew his little angel was such a hellion fighter when it came to protecting her charge, and him it seemed? One of the lesser demons had gotten the jump on