As Cassie and Azazeal, took Jaenelle, Daemon, Lucivar, and Marian on the long promised tour of the best sights of our world, with Elizabeth and Lucifer's help, Daemon took the opportunity to exert a bit of his own form of dominance. Normally, he wouldn't have felt the need to make such a display, but among these angels his caste and jewels no longer to struck the kind of fear in them that he desired. After their initial meeting there had been some subsequent fights but nothing brutally physical was going to happen without, firstly the Ladies getting very angry, and secondly, him getting hurt. He knew quite well that Lucifer and probably Azazeal could destroy him, but Blood with less power then himself feared darker Jeweled Blood males their whole lives. What he needed was…leverage.
And so for the two days they spent popping in and out of exotic and beautiful locations, he subtly ingratiated himself with Cassie and Elizabeth who he now felt, he had shamefully ignored. After all, they were Queens of a sort too and could also provide him with some useful information…if he could translate their female.
Jaenelle noticed but did not comment. She knew what he was doing and couldn't really blame him and since he was no friendlier with them than he was with the Coven, she had no basis for concern. Besides, she was often on his arm as well and it was very amusing to watch Azazeal and Lucifer who were left to wonder how Daemon could collect all three females with such ease and keep their wandering attention with such effortlessness.
"How the hell does he do that?" Azazeal grumbled to Lucifer on the first day as they trailed behind Daemon who was surrounded by their delighted wives who were actually flirting back. Damn them!
Lucivar and Marian had wandered off by themselves in no small part because Lucivar could see his brother letting loose his seductive nature and had no desire to see what kind of mayhem would ensure once the angels took offense.
"How do you do it?" Lucifer asked.
"Oh, I don't know, I just…but look at him, that smile, that walk, and that sexual heat coming from him. If Jaenelle weren't standing right next to him…!" He cut off his sentence in frustration.
"Yes, she knows, I'm sure of it. It must be a ploy."
"No, I think he just enjoys the attention. Look at them, they're flirting back, touching him, and it doesn't matter if it's just his shoulder or his arm, I know flirting when I see it and they're doing it!"
"Calm down…" Lucifer started, but Azazeal had already picked up his pace and caught them.
"I think we can move on to the next location now, if the Ladies have had their fill," he said with infinite sweetness and cordiality, but Daemon could see in his eyes that his attention to Cassie was working on Azazeal. He guessed that Lucifer's displeasure would soon show itself and then he could let them in on his game.
The Ladies agreed and they left Machu Picchu for the pyramids of Egypt with Azazeal having reclaimed his position as Cassie's escort only to lose her again later in the day.
The next day went much the same, with the Ladies fluttering around Daemon like moths to a flame and Azazeal stewing. No matter how many times the angels gained their women back, they would get caught up in Daemon's delicate seduction spells and end up next to him again, with that look of yearning in their eyes.
Lucifer, showing wisdom he did not always possess, had spoken to Elizabeth the night before regarding her flirtation with Daemon and she explained his allure. She told him, though already knew, that Daemon was a very beautiful man and that a female will always encourage the attention of such an attractive and exceptional man, even if she has no intention of it going any further than flirtation. She could feel the seduction spells and acknowledge them, and added that indulging in responding to them was fun, but her real intend was to find out more about Jaenelle's husband who she and Cassie rarely spoke to. She also assured Lucifer, as only Elizabeth could do, that he was the only male she intended on loving and…possessing, so he was unconcerned about Daemon's popularity with the Ladies which added to Azazeal's growing irritation.
"Why can't you see it? He's trying to steal your woman!"
"I don't believe that…Did you talk to Cassie?"
"I don't need to talk to Cassie, I can see well enough how she feels about him," he spat.
"Don't be angry with her, she just…"
"I'm not angry," Azazeal said darkly, as Cassie laughed brightly at something Daemon had said and she put her hand lightly on his shoulder, steadying herself as the ripples of laughter shook her body, "I'm furious."
"Azazeal…"
But it was too late. That had been the last straw. Azazeal stormed over to them and grabbed Cassie's arm rather more roughly than Lucifer suspected that he had intended.
"North pole next, I think," he said gruffly and putting a hand on Jaenelle's arm, disappeared with the two women leaving Elizabeth and Lucifer to gather the others and follow.
"What's your problem?" Cassie shouted angrily as they arrived in the frozen wilds of the North. Jaenelle backed away slightly to give them their space as she knew quite well what was bothering Azazeal.
"Not enough for you am I?" he said with all the rage he could muster but Cassie could hear the old hurt in him underneath the tone. He was always susceptible to feeling like a failure and she let her irritation at his behavior go in favor of the loving smile that always undid him.
The look of hopefulness in his eyes was almost too much for Cassie to bear, but it quickly gave way to his familiar strong and eager love as he smiled back. Just as Lucifer arrived with the rest of their guest, Azazeal bent to whisper in Cassie's ear and her smiled widened.
Jaenelle moved next to Daemon and he watched as Azazeal showed his own fascination with that same spot on a woman's neck that he himself found so intriguing. Azazeal was hovering just above the trance of adoration and was seductively murmuring things to Cassie in angelic that had her eyes well and truly glazed over with ravenous desire and love, as he placed soft kisses on her face and neck. Azazeal's own eyes were filled with such love that it felt like one was intruding to watch them.
"What is he saying?" Jaenelle asked, looking away and nudging Daemon in the ribs to call his attention away from the couple and on to Lucifer.
"It is private," Lucifer said with an unexpectedly tender smile, knowing that Azazeal wouldn't want his words shared, "But I'll just say that no one can compete with him when he's like that." Lucifer finished by glancing at Daemon who shot him a lazily arrogant smile to acknowledge his little game of influence.
To get them focused on something else, Elizabeth turned to Lucifer and complained that she had wanted to show them the northern lights but they weren't appearing right now. Lucifer turned his head to look down at her as she stood in his arms and a smile spread across his face filled with the kind of devotion that only he could offer. He beamed at her and the sky filled with an awe inspiring display of light and color that had Jaenelle astounded and Daemon slightly ashamed of himself, but not too much because he had made his point, he could tell, and his abilities would not be taken for granted in the future.