Chapter 23

CHAPTER

TWENTY-THREE

IZA

"So, how'd you like it?" Dani asked with a grin.

Through wide eyes, I stared at the foyer to her castle that we had just toured. I couldn't even count how many rooms there were on each floor, nor could I remember how many floors there were. Everything was more exquisite than anything I had seen on Earth.

"There's still more," Dani said, looping my arm around hers and tugging me along.

"More?!" I exclaimed. "How can there be any more?"

"I've been gatekeeping my favorite part." She giggled. "The Lust Rooms."

My eyes widened. "The Lust Rooms? What are those?"

"Where demons fulfill their every desire." She pulled me down a set of steps and toward a large hallway filled with ten-foot-tall doors that were wider than my arm span. "I'm surprised that Acaros hasn't brought you to them yet. They have some at The Lounge."

Chest tightening, I sucked on my inner cheek. Was that why he hung out there? Did he bring other girls into Lust Rooms? Maybe that woman who was at his place the other morning … I thought she had been at The Lounge the other night too.

"Follow me into the first?—"

"Iza!" someone shouted from behind me.

I twirled around to see Acaros storming our way in his demon form, his brows furrowed together and a pissed-off glare branded onto his face.

When he finally made it to me, he grabbed my hand and pulled me behind him. "What are you doing with her?"

"I'm just showing her around the Lust Rooms," Dani said.

"Why?" he gritted through clenched teeth, his grip tightening. "She's mine."

Light danced in Dani's eyes. "Then, why haven't you brought her to a Lust Room?"

Acaros dug his claws into my waist. "Stay away from her."

"Is that any way to talk to your queen?" Dani hummed.

"If she's trying to steal your girl, yes."

His girl …

There it was again. He had said it to Clayton earlier after I came all over his desk, telling him to savor every last bit of me because that was the only taste that Clayton would ever get from his girl. And now … he was telling Dani almost the same thing.

"I'm not trying to steal your girl," Dani said. "I'm just showing her what she's missing because you haven't brought her here for me to officially meet her and you let her stumble through the portal by herself. Do you know how terrifying that is for a human?"

Instead of responding to her, Acaros turned us around and marched us all the way out of the castle. I stumbled onto the white walkway toward Chastion and looked over my shoulder to see Dani smirking and waving me off.

After a couple of moments, Acaros released his harsh grip on me. "I'm sorry."

"What?" I asked, taken aback and looking up at him.

"I'm sorry," he repeated.

"For what?"

"I had to take care of that prick," he said through gritted teeth. "And I left you alone."

"It's okay. But where did you take Clayton?"

After a low growl, he cut his eyes to me. "Don't worry about it."

"Did you kill him?"

"No."

I crossed my arms. "Why don't I believe that?"

"He's in Wrath."

"What's Wrath?"

"Wrath is a kingdom of lava in Hell where demons reside. I brought him to the torture?—"

"You're torturing him?!" I exclaimed. "But he's so sweet."

"He wanted to fuck you."

"So, you're going to throw everyone who has ever wanted to fuck me in some torture pits?!" I asked, throwing my hands up. When he didn't react, I re-crossed my arms and looked toward the garden. "Besides, you can't do that. There are not enough pits to hold all the men?—"

"Don't finish that fucking sentence," he growled. "Who are they?"

"Wouldn't you like to know?"

"Yes, I would." He snapped his hand around my elbow. "Now."

"That is none of your business."

"You are my fucking business, Iza. First, I had to hear from Laufer that you had summoned a sex demon last night. Next, you wandered into the portal after I explicitly told you to stay on Earth. Then, I found you in a Lust Room with Dani, the commander of Lust and one of the most influential demons."

"Well"—I chewed on my lip—"you see, I can explain all that, quite logically even."

"You'd better start," he growled. "Why'd you summon a demon last night?"

"Because …"

" Because doesn't cut it, Hellcat."

"Because I wanted to get you jealous," I whispered. "The way that you made me."

"What are you talking about?"

"That girl who was at your place the other morning. Ring a bell?"

"Qina?"

"Qina," I repeated, her name sour on my tongue. "She was shouting at you."

And I hadn't known if it was an angry shout or one of pleasure. He was so good when we were together that I could only imagine him touching another girl the way that he touched me, making her scream and shout how I had so many times now.

"Don't worry about her."

Says every guilty guy ever.

"Why was she over at your house?" I asked.

"Because someone had sent her."

"Why was she screaming?"

"Because she didn't like that I didn't want her there."

"Well then, why haven't you brought me into a Lust Room?" I asked.

"You want to know why I haven't brought you into a Lust Room?"

I glared up at him. "Mmhmm."

Within a moment, Acaros twirled me around and bent me over the fence to the garden. Right in the middle of the walkway to Chastion. Right in the center of people heading to and from the castle.

"Acaros," I hissed, "what are you?—"

Before I could finish my sentence, he slipped his cock under my skirt and pressed the head against my cunt. My eyes widened, and I attempted to stand back up because we were literally in front of everyone! But he held me in place and slammed into me.

"This is why I haven't brought you to a Lust Room," he grunted. "It's too private, and I love the way your pussy tightens around my cock when we're in public, when you have a fear of being caught."