Familiar Demon by Amy Lane

Author:Amy Lane [Lane, Amy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: gay romance
ISBN: 978-1-64405-186-3
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-02-12T06:00:00+00:00

THE KISS had to end—it had to. But for a few brief moments, Mullins remembered… everything. Human emotions. Love without fear. The joys of unfettered flesh. He moaned slightly, his groin tingling, growing heavy, and that attention made him aware of one more thing.

He pulled back and grimaced.

“What?” Edward asked, sounding dazed. His green eyes were heavy-lidded, his pupils blown with passion, and his cheeks blotched, freckles standing out clearly against the pale patches. With his mouth—plush pink lips—swollen and red, he was all that was gorgeous about lust.

“I still have a tail,” he mumbled, embarrassed, and to his intense discomfort, the entire family walked around him to check out his posterior.

“I had no idea you had one before,” Harry said, sounding as delighted as a child. “Is that why the trousers?”

“What’s it look like?” Francis asked. “Can we see?”

“No you can’t see!” Mullins found he was laughing even as he felt the appendage through his the seat of his eighteenth-century pants. He was as delighted to be in the center of his family, no runes, no protective spells, no formality of the summoning circle, as he’d always imagined. “It’s… it’s short with a little tuft at the end—like a boar’s.”

“Could be worse,” Beltane said seriously. “It could be corkscrewed, like a piglet’s.” He giggled. “We’d totally make you show us that, you know.”

Mullins fought the urge to cuff the brat playfully. God, he loved these people.

“I’m afraid not,” he said shortly, some of the giddiness fading. “I think it’s there as a….” He frowned, feeling his demon magic pulsing under his skin. Leonard had been reborn with no magic at all. Emma had needed to gift him with some of her immortality, which was why she’d needed to put her power in the boys as familiars. Those sorts of spells tended to take everything, if there wasn’t some of it in a “bank.” Leonard had learned more since, and his knowledge from his time in hell was impressive, but he’d never reclaim the amount of power he’d had as a demon.

Mullins still had that power. And he still had his tail.

“It’s not over,” he said, feeling the beat of little minds searching for him even as he stood with Edward in the circle of his arms. “We need to finish the hex bags, complete the ceremony. This is… a reprieve, I guess. I’m not sure why or how, but someone wanted me to spend some time as a human being before I….” He thought about his cell, the constant fear, the screams that never got less awful. “Before I ret—”

“You’re not going back!” Edward snapped, and Mullins looked… not down. Mullins the demon was about a foot taller than Edward. Perhaps it was the beastly head.

“We’re the same height,” he said in wonder, not wanting to think about his life if Edward was wrong.

“Lucky bastard,” Harry muttered—Suriel was nearly a foot taller than him, still. “Edward, I know he’s yours, but let us all hug him before we do anything else.

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