Ink & Dagger (Sins of Eden #1)

19. Chapter XIX

Chapter XIX

Emily

H e’d promised me that he was dangerous and that was for certain, but not in the way that he realized.

I was still uselessly trying to convince myself that this connection I felt between us was just attraction, but everything he did and said made it hard to believe that I would be able to walk away unmarred by him.

I couldn’t understand how I could feel so deeply for someone I didn’t know, but I was fucking smitten. Struck with absolute devastating affection for a Demon that I knew nothing about.

He leaned his head down so that I didn’t have to stretch too far and I hesitantly ran my fingers along the smooth curves of one of his tipped horns. Running my hand through his short hair and down, I trailed my fingers down his face, caressing the dark stubble that lined his jaw as he closed his eyes and leaned further into my cupped hand.

I couldn’t help but admire the tattoo that I’d given him just weeks ago as I ran my fingers along his cheek, just another chip in the armor around my heart.

“So… crazy, seeing as we’re lying in my bed together naked and all, but what’s your name?” I asked, softly laughing to myself as he traced the flying crows tattooed along my collar bone with his finger. “And how did you get into my house?” He’d never said and I was fairly certain Charlie would have locked up on her way out after recent events.

“Demon, remember? I blinked. And believe me, I could be a lot more naked than this, baby,” he said with a rough laugh, shaking the bed slightly.

Okay, so I was the only one who was actually naked, but still. My face flushed red as the silence penetrated the room.

“As for who I am, I go by a lot of names. My given name is Jaxon Morningstar, but I go by Jax. The humans often refer to me as Luxuria or rather Lust, but you, my Sweet Witch, may call me whatever you want,” he told me, leaning forward to place a tender kiss to the side of my head.

“ Blinked ? Lust? So you’re - ” My jaw dropped and I sat up quickly to look down at him.

“A Sin Demon. One of the seven Princes of Hell, at your service,” he told me with a chuckle, pulling me back down to lay with him.

“Together, my brothers and I make up the Seven Deadly Sins. There’s myself, Adrian, Nash, Ace, Zayden, Ledger, and Killian. Killian has been missing for two years. My other brothers have been searching as well, but Adrian and I came to this area because we can feel him here. I haven’t been able to find him though.”

“Which sins are Adrian and Killian?” I asked, trying to absorb all of this new information.

Fucking Hell, a prince?

He wasn’t just a Demon. He was an heir of Lucifer Morningstar, one of the single most terrifying beings in the world.

“Adrian is Gluttony, but we call him Gula, which he absolutely hates by the way,” he told me with a chuckle as he softly dragged his claws through my hair, making sure not to touch the tender spot in the back.

It was intimate and soothing, lying here with him, but my mind raced as I laid there listening to his words.

This desperation and desire that I felt for him made sense now. He was Lust personified. It was just a magical and chemically reduced reaction that had me craving him in my bones. It almost made me sad that what I felt wasn’t real.

“Killian is Wrath,” he went on as I battled with reason. “He’s the youngest out of us all and is known to go off on his own, so we didn’t think much of his disappearance at first, but he’s never stayed away from home this long.”

“We’ve been in an ongoing war with Heaven for the last few decades, so we assumed the Angels had something to do with his disappearance, but I’m not convinced. If they knew we were weakened and searching for one of our own then they would have struck already. Something else happened, I just don’t know what.”

“I can look into it. Give me a few days to figure out how to find him and I promise if he’s out there, I’ll do everything in my power to get him back to you,” I told him foolishly.

I thoughtlessly ran my hands down his chest and across the corded muscles of his shoulders, admiring the tattoos and raised scars along his body.

“Thank you, Sweet Witch,” he sighed, closing his eyes once again at my touch.

No one had ever considered me “sweet” before. Psycho, deranged, a straight up bitch - definitely. Not sweet.

He’d called me that plenty of times already, but the intensity and reverence he held in his eyes when he said it caused ravenous bats to fill my stomach every time.

I shifted against the hard bulge grinding against my hip and bit down on my bottom lip to hold in my groan of need. Fuck, I shouldn’t be thinking about that.

I should stay on safer topics like his brother or the shop, but after the mind blowing orgasm he gave me a few weeks ago and the smell of him all around me, I couldn’t help but push my body against him again.

Fuck. Ghost was right. Maybe Witches did go into heat.

“Oh my Sweet Witch, are you trying to seduce me?” He purred, trailing his fingers softly down my chest and tugging lightly on the stud in my nipple before moving to the other. I let out a soft moan of approval as he let go and pinched my nipple between his rough fingers.

“Believe me baby, my body has been on fire since the moment I laid eyes on you,” he said. His tail snaked its way up my leg to emphasize his words.

Moisture pooled between my thighs as he placed soft kisses against the side of my neck and up my jaw. His tail climbed higher up my thigh and I whimpered as the flat tip of it grazed my clit. Even if my feelings weren’t real, my body still wanted him.

“Lie back for me, Little Witch,” he told me. “Good girl. Now scoot down a little. That’s it,” he praised as I followed his instructions.

Something about the way he both commanded and praised me sent chills throughout my bones, but I was far from cold as my body heated under his gaze.

Jax shifted the blanket down my body as he moved to the foot of the bed, and pulled the extra pillow from beside me while placing soft kisses up my calf to my inner thigh. He blew out a warm breath against my pussy, causing me to seize and moan as my desire for him intensified, before starting all over with the other leg.

As he reached my mound, he shoved the pillow underneath my ass, lifting me higher, gripped my knees, and pushed my thighs further apart.

“Spread your legs for me, baby. Mmm, fuck. Just like that,” he grunted, making room for his wide shoulders.

He hooked his hands under my thighs as he rubbed his stubble gently against my skin and I shuddered in anticipation.