Compilation Of Short Stories
"Shouldn't you be... causing discord?
Tempting mortals?"
A slow, devastating smile curved his lips. He shrugged off the jacket, revealing a simple black shirt stretched taut over shoulders that spoke of contained, ancient power. He moved with a predator's grace, closing the distance between them, stopping just outside the circle of light cast by her desk lamp. The scent of him intensified, wet earth, leather, and that core of smouldering embers, uniquely Malakai.
It wasn't the sulfur and brimstone of lesser demons; it was the scent of deep, primal things, of storms and the heart of mountains.