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“Wait at the clubhouse for me, sunshine,” he said.

“You’re not coming with me?”

“Not until I know Poe and Tarrant are where they belong.”His eyes turned red.“Killing him would feel so fucking good, but knowing he’s in the deepest pit of Hell, suffering every moment of every day, right alongside Tarrant feels even better.”He pressed a kiss to my lips, then shut me in.I watched as he strode over to Poe, grabbed him by the throat and dragged him to the gateway War had just opened.

Then the hounds stepped into Hell, taking Tarrant and Poe to live out a fate worse than death.

ChapterThirty

Sutton

I wokewhen Jagger wrapped his arms around me, pressing his mouth to my shoulder, right over the mark he’d given me.

Boo chattered from his spot, hanging off the wall light across the room, saying his hello, then promptly went back to sleep.

I’d tried to stay awake, but I was exhausted and somehow had drifted off.Jagger smelled like soap, his hair damp, but I could still smell brimstone on him.

I turned in his arms and pressed a kiss to his chest, then placed my hand there.“You’re in pain.”I could feel it as if it were my own, an agony that had been there a very long time.“Zuri?”

“Yeah,” he said roughly.“Things could have been so different, in so many ways.”His throat worked.“But what’s fucking me up the most right now?Watching Kurgan lose Lenny all over again.”

Oh gods.“What happened?”

He stared ahead blindly.“I used the potion you gave me, a sedation dose, and put some in his drink.There was no way we’d be able to get her away otherwise.He lay there, watching War lead her away, unable to do anything.I fucking felt something shatter inside him, Sutton, I’m sure if it.”

“Do you think Lenny would visit him occasionally?”

He shook his head.“She doesn’t want to mate with him, and I don’t blame her.She’s been attacked by him, kidnapped by fucking demons, and used as bait to keep him sane.She’s terrified of him.”He shook his head.“No, seeing her, spending more time with her, then losing her over and over again would just be fucking cruel.”

I slid my hand up the side of his neck.“Do you need to go to him?If he needs you?—”

“He doesn’t want to see me right now.”There was another wash of pain.“He told me to leave.Zuri’s with him.”

I blinked up at him.“Really?”

His eyes and his mouth softened.“She has this way with him.”He swallowed thickly.“His sister talked to him and he calmed.She’s powerful, baby.I can feel it.Fuck knows what Lucifer has planned for her, but it has to be something big if he kept her hidden, if Beelzebub took her from him.She’s the key to something, I just don’t know what.”

“We’ll figure it out,” I said and pressed a kiss to his jaw.“And until we do, we’ll show her what life can be like out of Hell.You have an eternity to get to know her.”

His hand slid to the side of my face.“And now, I have an eternity with you, my perfect, precious little sunshine.”

“I still can’t believe it.”

“Believe it,” he said and kissed me.

It was soft at first, but it didn’t take long before I was desperate to deepen it.Jagger kept it slow, though, only deepening the kiss when he finally rolled me to my back.He licked into my mouth, sucking gently on my lips, driving me crazy with need.

“Jag, baby…please.”

He gripped the shirt I was wearing, his, and dragged it up and off.“You don’t have to beg, sunshine.The way I need you tonight, I won’t make either of us wait.”He dragged my underwear down my legs and tossed them aside, and I wrapped my legs around his hips.“That pussy wet enough to take your male?”

“Yes,” I rasped.I was always ready for him.

He slipped one big hand down between us, sliding thick fingers over my pussy, grazing my aching clit and teasing my opening.He growled.“Fucking dripping for me, female.”He gripped his cock and pressed the head against me.“Relax that pussy for me.”

I did.I’d do anything to have him inside me, right the hell now.He pushed forward, the head filling me, but he didn’t stop, he kept coming, filling me in one slow, smooth movement.I arched against him, moaning from the pleasure of being claimed by my mate.

“Yes, oh gods, yes.”