Terror at the Gates (Blood of Lilith, #1)

by Scarlett St. Clair

I’d rather be a sinner than a hypocrite.

We were not responsible for lust in men. We existed, and they desired.

“Isiah didn’t know me!” “And look where that got him,” Zahariev countered. “Where did it get him, Zahariev?” “In the fucking ground,” he said.

“Keep the cat,” he said. “Learn to let someone love you.”

damn

“Someday I will have to watch you marry another man, and it will be far easier to do if I never fuck you.”

oop

That was a lie. It was never going to be easy.

“I like it,” he said. “You know what makes me harder? When you obey.” He bent forward and kissed my forehead, increasing the pressure on my throat ever so slightly before pulling away.

im screeching

They will call her a demon, but I watched her transform, and I will call her goddess.

In the Middle Ages, Lilith appeared in The Alphabet of Ben Sira, a satirical Hebrew text, and introduced her as Adam’s first wife. She is all the things she was before, but more. Lilith refuses to lay beneath Adam during sex, which Adam believes is her rightful place. Lilith’s argument is that they were created from the same earth and therefore equal. When Lilith pronounced God’s name, she grows wings and flies away. I’m sure I don’t need to point out that Lilith only became a demon once she refused to submit to the will of her husband…right?

Of course, they will say Eve tempted Adam and again I will say—how many times will men blame women for their choices?