“She wasn’t too difficult, was she?”

“No, I think I actually might like her.” I make a fake gagging sound as I dig into my wallet and hand Dax back his credit card.

“Did you get lots of pretty things?” he asks with a mischievous smile.

“I did, thank you, daddy,” he beams and kisses me roughly. The stubble of his beard against my cheeks makes me smile into the kiss. He breaks away and the way he looks at me, fuck. It’s like all my problems don’t exist when I’m with Dax. “You’ll have to wait to see, though.”

“I can be patient, pet. Can you?” He asks seductively as he places the helmet on my head and takes my bags to put them in his side saddles.

He puts his own helmet on, getting on his bike first before he gives me a hand signal to jump on the back.

I know I should be stressed. So much is going on that’s out of my control. But all I can do is bask in the feel of wrapping my arms around his sculpted abs and breathing in his musky scent. I think Dax just might help me make everything all right.

18. Blair

Chapter 18

“This is a terrible idea, Blair,” Stevie says to me as I work on getting ready for the night. Dax is going to be picking me up in an hour to go to Inferno.

“He asked me to come. Clearly, this Mara demon is a threat to me. The sooner she’s gone, the sooner everything can go back to normal.”

Stevie glares at me while she sits on my bed. “You haven’t been to Inferno before. You don’t know what you’re getting into.”

“What, and you have?” I ask. She looks away and her cheeks pinken. “Wait, you’ve been to a supernatural sex club, and you never told me?”

“You never liked Bianca, so yeah, I never told you. We used to go on Thursday nights. It was buy one, get one blood bags.” I grimace and stare at her. “You don’t understand, Blair. This isn’t just some club you can go to and watch and wait. If you don’t take part, you look suspicious. You know how paranoid supernaturals are of each other. Especially a witch hanging out with a bunch of fucking demons.”

“I can handle that,” I say, shrugging my shoulders. I never wear my hair like this, but I feel pretty cute, and I know Dax will enjoy it.

“I don’t like it, Blair. She sent a golem after you, Dax said that she’s possessing people and scrambling their brains. What if that’s her plan for you?”

“Dax won’t let anything happen to me,” I say.

“You barely know him,” Stevie replies, giving me an apologetic look.