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Life of the Party
#WritcoStoryPrompt121
Write a short story with the word "Jealousy" as the main theme.

*These characters are all OCs from my novel.*

Asmodeus watched as Calliope danced with Amarok for the second time that night. 'What exactly does she think she's doing anyway?' he thought. 'Is she just trying to make me jealous? I get it Calli, you're a siren. Even though your siren powers don't work on other supernatural beings, you can still seduce whoever you want.'

Calliope could feel Asmodeus' anger radiating off him from across the room, but she didn't care. She enjoyed dancing with Amarok. The giant man holding her close felt safe, and she needed that. He twirled the short, skinny woman once more and then dipped her so low her hair almost touched the dance floor as the song ended.

Amarok's golden wolf eyes dart down to her dark-pink lips, and then up to meet her purple eyes. "You're beautiful," he says as he pulls her up.

"Thank you. You're not so bad yourself," she teases. "For a werewolf, anyway." She winks at him then.

Without warning, he leaned down and his lips came crashing into hers. She smiled against him and kissed him back, and when they broke away, she realized he had one arm around her waist and had picked her up that way.

Asmodeus' anger grew to new heights when he saw that. Flames had risen from his hands, forcing him to calm himself so none of the humans saw him like that. The gods only know what a bunch of humans in New Orleans would do if they saw a demon in the middle of the best nightclub with flames rolling off of him.

Okay, so technically, Asmodeus is a cambion - half-human half-incubus, but it's not like the humans would bother asking.

He opened their psychic connection and sent her his thoughts since he had been too angry to risk talking to her in person. 'Why are you trying to make me...