Dirty and Sinful Collection
“You show up, get me off, vanish. I’m starting to feel like a booty call.”
There was a silence that followed, thick with tension. And then, right in front of me, the shadows folded inward and he emerged from them.
And he was fully formed. Not smoke or half formed this time.
Azariel stood in the middle of my tiny living room, impossibly tall, broad-shouldered, all heat and menace and perfectly carved body. His skin glowed faintly, like dying embers of flame. Horns curved back from his forehead. His eyes were molten. Not red but deeper. Like lava under glass.