The next morning light spread across the kitchen tiles when I finally got out of bed.Asmodeus was still asleep for once he was truly asleep, his body heavy and quiet on the mattress we had wrecked the night before. The restless edge that used to keep him awake was gone. I left him there, pulled on one of his discarded shirts, and went to make coffee and something that could pass for breakfast.I was standing at the counter cutting fruit when I felt the sudden heat of his body at my back and the solid weight of his arms sliding around my waist from behind. He pulled me flush against him, chest to my spine, and dropped his mouth to the side of my neck.“You left,” he murmured, voice still rough from sleep.“I was hungry.”“So am I.”His hands flattened on my stomach, then slid lower, under the hem of the shirt. Bare palms on bare skin. He found I wasn’t wearing anything underneath and made a low, approving sound against my throat. One hand cupped between my legs without preamble, fing
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