"Sorry, mate," I swung my leg over his back,held onto the mane and managed to not collapse into an embarrassing heap on theground.
I leaned against the stallion until he snorted, pawingthe ground. I saw Ezra and Sabian trying to get over to me. The stallion washaving none of it, so on legs that felt like overcooked noodles, I staggeredaway from him and collapsed into Ezra's arms.
"You are the most infuriating, reckless…"
I gave him a thumbs up and passed out before he couldcontinue.
Chapter 16
Sabian
I held my exorcist while she slept, and hoped she wasstill mine. Ezra had obviously staked a claim, and I really wanted to know whyshe bore Lucifer's mark now. With Ezra in the picture, my prince might not letme have her anymore and the idea tore at my heart. The small eternity oftorture at Lott's hands would be like nothing if I could no longer keep Chrisin my life. It was a good sign that he'd allowed me to take her to bed.
Chris shifted restlessly in my arms and I kissed hercheek, trying to soothe her. It seemed to work. She snuggled deeper into myarms, practically clinging to me in her sleep.
A part of me felt I didn't deserve to be here, holdingChris. Another part of me would fight if anyone tried to make me give her up.The conflicting emotions tore at me and I didn't know what I could possibly doabout them.
"Sabian?" Chris murmured, interrupting mymelancholy thoughts.
"Yes," I answered her.
"Thank the Lady," she muttered and dug herfingers into my back.
"You're going to give me ideas if you keep thatup," I teased.
She bit my shoulder and I groaned, suddenly hoping shewasn't teasing me in return.
"Not teasing," she answered my unspokenthought. Was she reading my mind now?
"Side effect," she whispered before grabbingmy face and pressing her lips to mine.
I lost myself for a while in the ferocity of her kiss.It was as if she were trying to claim me all over again. The love energy thatshe pushed into me with her kisses was so pure it brought tears to my eyes. Howcould I possibly have doubted my exorcist?
Chris completely distracted me from my thoughts whenshe pushed me over onto my back and straddled me. I watched hungrily as shepulled her shirt off over her head.
Ezra and I had cleaned her up as best we could aftershe'd collapsed. He'd let me help, though he had mostly ignored me, focusing onChris.
She didn't seem to notice she wasn't wearing the sameclothing she'd been in yesterday, or maybe she didn't care.
My exorcist made a noise of displeasure when she hadto roll off me to tug off the sleeping pants I wore. She shed her underwear andpushed me back onto the bed when I tried to sit up.
"You are mine," she said, almost as if toherself when she threw her leg back over me.
"Yes," I agreed, grabbing her hips with myhands.
She stroked my cock a few times and I arched my back, thrustinginto her hand, eyes shutting, and groaning with pleasure. Her love and lustfilled me, feeding me in a way that Ezra's energy failed to.
Content to let her control me, I ran my hands up hersides before cupping her breasts. Her gasp of pleasure was followed by a lowgroan as she lowered herself onto me. I echoed her as I slid into her warm heat.While I'd never get to an actual heaven, I imagined this was what it was like.Filled with love and pleasure and enjoying time with someone who meant morethan the world to me.
Once she'd taken me as deeply as she could, I openedmy eyes and met hers. She was smiling as she gazed down at me.
I traced some of the ink that curled around herbreasts, avoiding Lucifer's mark. Something had changed in her wardings, too,but I wasn't interested in exploring that right now.
"Sabian," she said softly, savoring my name.
"Chris Price," I replied, treating eachsound of her name with the same reverence as she'd given mine.
My exorcist rocked, and the pleasure she gave methrough the movement, and the energy she fed me, was such a contrast from thelast small eternity, that she almost undid me before I'd had a chance to giveanything to her in return.
"Sabian, I'm just happy to have you back. That'sall the pleasure I need right now."
"That's going to take some getting used to,"I said.
She chuckled. "Tables turned and all that. Justrelax and enjoy the ride."
"As you wish," I replied.
Chris grinned and increased her pace as she rode me.
I dropped my fingers to her clit, rubbing just how sheliked it, letting my powers direct my fingers for maximum effect.
My pleasure built with her movement and I couldn'thold off any longer. I cheated a little and used some of my energy to curlthrough her core and hit her sensitive parts all at once. I'd done it before,but this time she felt me doing it. We crashed over the edge into blisstogether, and I took in everything she offered me.
This was definitely what heaven would be like. Atleast my version of it.
Chris collapsed into my arms, and I held her whiletremors rippled through both of us.
"I'm so sorry I couldn't get to you faster,"she said.
"Chris, I didn't expect you to come to hell forme." That wasn't exactly a lie, but it wasn't completely true, either. Therewas no way I was going to tell her that, though, and I buried the thoughtdeeply.
She didn't reply for a few minutes while we recoveredfrom our lovemaking. Finally, she climbed off me and tugged my hand, pulling metoward the washroom so we could clean up.
"I feel like I've failed you," she said whenshe touched the control for the water. Demons didn't typically bathe, at leastnot like humans did, so Ezra must have set this up for her. We used magic onthis plane to keep ourselves at whatever level of clean we preferred.
"How?"
"Well, it took me over a month to figure out youwere even in trouble. I thought Ezra had you. Then it took me another smalleternity to get
