27 ~ You’re Slow to Wake When Ignoring the World

When Young woke up, he was relieved to find Asha still in his arms, resting as if she didn’t know she was in the arms of a devil. He missed this feeling of being and having someone in your arms, the intimacy that came with it. She was honestly the only person he got to have that with in life too.

Going so long without it, he now had to acknowledge how ravenous he was for her and the comfort that came with being in her company again. It was dangerous territory getting soft around a human being now that he’d been turned to the hardest side any being could be. It was commonly punishable by death to let a human too close, especially one so close to being angelic. Somehow though, her name in particular and the nature of their relationship was exactly what earned him his get out of hell free card. In fact, the pure blood demons had urged him that his freedom was contingent upon him not only renewing the relationship, but convincing her to take steps that would land her in hell after death.