Step by tiny step. Liam could be patient, after all. But he was already fully in over his head, and he recognized that. Maybe that was why he was acting so recklessly about it, bolder than he had any right to be.

Or maybe he was just desperately lonely and the spark of connection and attraction and something else that Riley had set to glowing in him was the first warm little light he'd felt in a very long time.

A nod at the question. "Or they kissed me, if we're assigning agency here." Among other things yes. The way he understood it, demons drew energy from sexual release with humans, even when the demon wasn't specifically an incubus. For incubi it was a much more pressing need that fed their very survival.