Succubus On Top by Richelle Mead

Author:Richelle Mead
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2011-06-30T07:00:00+00:00

“I’ve been a bad, bad girl

I’ve been careless

With a delicate man

And it’s a sad, sad world

When a girl will break a boy

Just because she can.”

“You’re truly a creature of hell,” I told him, trying to wiggle away. “You know that, don’t you?”

“I just tell it like it is.” He held onto me and kept singing.

“Heaven help me

For the way I am

Save me from

These evil deeds

Before I get them done . . .”

When we finally left the bar, both of us laughing and humming, we passed a group of girls even more drunk than us. A few of them gave Bastien open looks of invitation, and I glanced at him expectantly. He shook his head.

“Too easy. Besides, I’d rather go home with you. So to speak.”

He walked me back toward my apartment, holding my arm as he had once done when social mores dictated it for anyone of good breeding. The pavement was slick from earlier rain, and a moist chill hung in the air. Not far away, the Space Needle gleamed watchfully above the nearby buildings; it would have Christmas lights on it soon. Bastien tightened his hold on my arm and turned his gaze absentmindedly toward the cloudy sky for a while before looking over at me.

“Fleur, do you want to know why I’m so gung-ho about this Dana business?”

I willed myself to sober up, suspecting something big was about to come. “You mean other than your righteous fury at her?”

He smiled gently and looked down at the pavement, watching our feet. “I’m in trouble. Big trouble.” He sighed. “You ever heard of a demon named Barton?”

“No. Should I have?”

“Maybe. He works in Chicago. Very high up. Very powerful. He’s one of those who expects ‘favors’ from his staff.”

I nodded in understanding. It was one of the occupational hazards succubi and incubi faced, and probably something else Seth would be happier not knowing about. As workers in the sex industry, so to speak, our demonic supervisors often thought we wouldn’t mind one more “customer.” Many saw it as our duty. Whatever his other failings, Jerome at least had never demanded anything of that nature from me.

“So . . . anyway, Barton has this succubus named Alessandra. Relatively new. You know, a century or so. Beautiful. She has as good an eye for exquisite physical detail as you. And she’s bright. Wicked sense of humor. Outgoing.”

I stared at him in astonishment. “Are you in love, Bastien?”

“No, but I was—am—very attracted to her. Hard not to be. We got to know each other, and well, one thing sort of led to another . . .”

“As it often does with you.”

“Yes,” he admitted ruefully. “But let me tell you, it was amazing. That woman . . . wow.”

“So how are you in trouble?”

“Well, the thing is, Barton’s kind of possessive about his people. He expected Alessandra’s body to be exclusively for his use—mortal business aside, of course.”

“And he found out?”

“Yes. He turned unbelievably jealous.” Contempt filled Bastien’s voice. “Stupid emotion for our kind.

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