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did I find my brother’s mate prowling around in the
Light?”
    “Don’t you dare speak his name to me! That
craven whoreson you call brother was—”
     
    “Shark Clan demon with really big tits?”
Jetrel didn’t care to hear the rest of her impassioned rant.
Sammael had been fucking Azza for as long as he could remember. The
real wonder was that it took Lilith this long to find out. “You
knew what he was like when you chose him. Did you honestly expect
him to change? He was mated to Tultzif when he spread your thighs
for the first time.”
    “Well, he’ll never spread them again. I can
tell you that much.”
    He lost his sarcastic retort as her
unexpected declaration took his breath away. Did she realize what
she’d just said? Had she meant to renounce Sammael? “Your response
to seeing him with Azza was to seduce the human? I still don’t
understand.”
    She splashed water on her face and scrubbed
her arms. Jetrel watched the gentle sway of her breasts. He wanted
to palm them and feel her nipples harden. His tongue tingled for
the first taste of her firm flesh.
    As Sammael’s brother, Jetrel had the right
to woo her before she could choose anyone else as her new mate.
Jetrel grinned. He suspected this wooing would take a long, long
time.
    “I didn’t set out to seduce the—what did you
call him?”
    “Human. Man. God calls him Adam.”
    Stepping from the pool, she faced him, her
arms folded loosely over her breasts.
    “And what does God call you?”
    He ignored the old insult.
The rumor that he was God’s spy had been around since the Fall. It
no longer bothered him. “The same thing he calls you. Demon. But you don’t
like that word, do you? How about misunderstood spirit? Fallen
angel? Evictee? Pick one.”
    “Pain in the ass.”
    “If that’s an invitation…I’ll be happy to
oblige.”
    “You’re disgusting.”
    He laughed. “Of course I
am. I’m a demon! We’re repulsive, disrespectful, crude, lustful .”
    “Do you live in this slimy cave?” She
shifted her weight from one foot to the other, inadvertently
drawing his gaze to the cobalt-blue folds peeking out between her
shapely thighs. “Why did you bring me here?”
    “Suck my cock and I’ll take you somewhere
more appealing.” She glared at him, so Jetrel backed off…a little.
Letting his appreciative gaze roam freely over her body, he
explained his plan. “My sources say something big is happening
tomorrow, so I’m going to hang around for the event. If I take you
back now, I’m liable to miss it.”
    “But you don’t know what the event is.”
    “Correct.”
    She arched her eyebrow challengingly. “Who
are your sources?”
    “Now what kind of a spy would I be if I
revealed my sources?”
    Lowering her arms to her sides, she moved
closer. “Whose side are you on, Jetrel? Light or Dark? Or do you
play the ends against the middle?”
     
    Lilith’s fingertips stroked along Jetrel’s
arm, across his shoulder and down his spine as she circled behind
him. He stood perfectly still, allowing her teasing touch, enjoying
it, but carefully resisting the stimulation. “Interesting analogy.
If God is on one side and Balam is on the other, who is in the
middle?”
    “Adam?” she suggested, her silken voice as
much a caress as her hand.
    Continuing her orbit, her
fingers brushing his collarbone. He felt his cock rise and anger
flared. “Why not you ? Aren’t you the center of the universe, at least in your own
eyes?” Reacting to his subtle provocation, she drew back to slap
him. He easily caught her wrist. “You hotheaded little bitch. Don’t
confuse me with my brother. I don’t enjoy being hit.”
    Her eyes blazed. A tiny muscle fluttered
just above her jaw. He could almost hear her teeth grinding.
    “I don’t know where I am.” She spoke
stiffly, her lips barely moving. “Take me back to the bend in the
river and I’ll return on my own.”
    “You nearly drowned. You’ll never make
it.”
    She yanked against