Epilogue:

Clare went out for the night to a book club meeting and promised that she'd study at the library until it closed. Ruby finished her homework and cleaned her room in preparation for Simon even though she knew he was already here, already watching her mill about her daily life. She'd been very quiet after that meeting with Alissa. It felt like it was a dream. And then Simon had kissed her softly and vanished and Alissa promised her that he was still there even if she couldn't see or hear him. And that he'd be around later tonight.

Tonight.

Ruby changed into her nightgown, feeling strange as she undressed in the emptiness of her bedroom. Knowing that he was there, that he could be watching, would always be watching over her made her feel vulnerable, too open. But she wanted to be open for him, wanted him to know how much she'd missed him when he was gone and how sorry she was for hurting him. Ruby didn't know how to control her powers. She was strong, but she was ignorant and her ignorance hurt him.

She sat on her bed, brushing her hair. Without so much as an awkward exchange of hands, Simon was there and it was his hand that held the brush.
"I love your hair. It's so silky," he said as he pulled the black strands through his fingers. Ruby turned to look at him, still in disbelief. She'd mourned his death, and all those feelings rose up in her again at the sight of him.

Ruby choked back a sob and lunged at him. The clatter of the brush hitting the ground was distant and muffled as her arms and lips claimed him, anchored him to this world. His glowing light brightened at her embrace, his mouth pliant and responsive to her insistent tongue, his breath caught in his throat as he felt her love. She was powerful, pulsating. Despite his new Holy status, he was obedient only to her.

Simon wrapped his arms around her and pulled her onto his lap, onto the ache of his groin. He'd forgotten how small her physical body was, petite and feminine. It made him fiercely protective of her and his arms tightened, squeezed her hard enough to make her momentarily breathless. He was breathless too and they panted against each other's lips.

"Is it a sin to...?" She didn't know how to finish the sentence. The hungry look in her eyes told him all he needed to know. His cock throbbed and a sense of urgency choked him.

"No," he said just as her hand reached down between them to undo his pants. Her earnest hands were enough to undo him.

She pulled him out and engulfed him without preamble. Her heat rivaled his own. She was slick and wet and clenching around him possessively. To be possessed by her was better than anything in Hell, Earth, and Heaven. She rode him and kissed him, her delicate, stong hands combed through his hair and held him still. Her eager body made him powerless until all he could do was gasp her name as she arched and claimed him.

When she came, gushing around his throbbing cock, her inner muscles crushed him and pulled him headlong into his own orgasm. He exclaimed roughly, clinging to her waist with his face buried into her neck, inhaling her delicious scent. Ruby all around him. Sweet and supple, stronger than anything he'd ever known.
Her eyes, hazy with satisfaction peered down at him and she smiled.

"Will you always be with me?" She asked. Simon's hands reached for the hem of her nightgown and slowly, smoothly pulled it up over her head. He took one of her nipples into his mouth, swirled the tip of his tongue around in lazy circles, over and over until he felt her melt in his arms. His tongue moved to the other nipple, treating it with the same thorough care and Ruby's back arched, her head thrown back and her hair caressed the backs of his hands.

Simon laid her down on the bed, trailing his hungry mouth over her ribs, over her trim belly, lingering at her left hipbone to taste the valley where he knew she was ticklish. She'd forgotten her question, lifting up her hips to encourage him along; impatient for the sensations he gave to freely. When his hot breath hovered over her clit, Ruby moaned and gripped his head again. He let her guide his face between her legs, her scent addicting. Her taste, a mixture of both of their juices, ambrosia. He gave one slow, long lap and ached with affection when she jerked and moaned his name.

Simon drank her in, his unhurried appetite was driving her crazy, he knew. And when she was close to an orgasm once more, her legs lifted, wrapping around him, her fingers roughly grabbed his hair to keep him exactly where she wanted him. Again, her possession of him made him swell and his cock thickened, throbbed to be inside of her. Ruby used his hair like a lead to bring his head up. She was gentle but primal, too eager to be kind. She hauled his mouth down onto hers to taste him as he guided his cock back into her clinging vice.

Simon lasted longer, each thrust strong and potent, drawing from her lips a moan or a gasp. Ruby's hips lifted to match his lazy pace as he pressed her down onto the bed again and again until her world blurred and she could no longer see him with her eyes but instead, sense him. She felt a warm breeze and knew he'd unfurled his wings. Ruby reached out to touch him, to feel all of him, especially all his new warm parts and sighed at the sensation of touching sunlight. He'd eveloped her just as she enveloped him.

He watched her come, saw her face twist with pleasure and whimper as his hand cupped and tugged at her nipple. It didn't take long for her clenching, milking muscles to pull him to his own eventual completion. He depleted himself in her, breathing her name against her neck.

"Don't leave me again," she murmured, clinging tightly to him.

"Heaven and Hell couldn't keep me away," he rasped. Nothing could ever be truer. She possessed him, body and soul.

Fin~

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