The silence didn't bother her, not with his annoyance so palpable. And no, the sex didn't compare to what Lucifer had done with the mark, molding her into a creation that exceeded any other demon left in Hell. She would have told him as much. The Mark melded pain and pleasure together in ways she'd never been able to imagine before.

As the neighborhood got even more disreputable, she turned off to what looked to mortal eyes to be a dead-end street, and, just to see Gabe's reaction, she gunned it at the same time she reached out with power to key the portal to open.