Blue Balling the Demon (Hotter Than Hell #5)

Here's Callie Colby's "Blue Balling the Demon." It's the fifth book in her Hotter Than Hell series.

["Valerius is the Underworld’s greatest an incubus bored to death by pleasure.

For Valerius, the act of seduction is tedious, the mechanics are messy, and the payoff is never worth the effort. He’s starving, wasting away in the mortal realm because he’d rather wither than endure another night of meaningless friction. He needs sustenance, but he needs it refined. He needs pure energy.

Then he meets Sir Kaelen of the Silver Order.

Kaelen is six-foot-four of holy muscle, righteous fury, and a vow of celibacy so strictly enforced it has turned him into a walking nuclear reactor of repressed lust. To Valerius, the Paladin doesn’t smell like a man; he smells like an all-you-can-eat buffet of white-knuckled restraint.

The arrangement is simple. Valerius uses his demonic senses to help Kaelen hunt the monsters plaguing the countryside. In exchange, Valerius gets to hover in Kaelen’s shadow, feeding off the delicious, intoxicating heat radiating from the knight’s pent-up frustration.

No touching. No seduction. Just pure, agonizing proximity.

It’s the perfect diet—until the nights get colder, the bedrolls get closer, and Valerius realizes that Kaelen’s resolve is starting to crack. The Paladin is looking at him not like a monster to be tolerated, but a sin to be committed. And for the first time in centuries, Valerius isn’t bored. He’s ravenous.

When the holiest man alive finally decides to break his vows, Valerius learns that the only thing more dangerous than a demon’s hunger... is a saint’s loss of control."]

So far, this is the first book in the series that isn't set in the twenty-first century. Which is intriguing as hell.

As is Valerius and Kaelen's arrangement. I couldn't help but constantly think: is Valerius feeding so easily off of Kaelen's righteous vow and pent-up frustration OR is Valerius feeding so easily off of Kaelen because they're fated? 

Valerius was not your conventional incubus, just as Kaelen was not your conventional paladin. They both had thoughts, feelings, desires, dreams that made them uniquely their own, uniquely similar to each other, and uniquely the opposite of what their brethren would accept. But together, they proved to be stronger and more powerful than their brethren. And (a lot) more philosophical (soooo many deep as fuck thoughts).

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