Well, at least Eros found his fucking shirt.
Lucifer leaned against the doorframe and clapped. “Well, there it is. The moment we’ve all been waiting for.”
“I’m kind of busy. Why don’t you leave me alone?” I said, turning back to Javier. I didn’t know exactly what I was busy with, but it sure as Hell wasn’t going to be Eros or Lucifer.
There was silence, then Eros growled. “What happened to the rules, Dani?”
Lucifer placed a hand on Eros’s shoulder. “Don’t get her angry. She doesn’t know how to control herself yet.”
I leapt off of the bed and stormed toward him. “Why don’t you tell me that? Tell me why you were leaving your Lust Room with scratches and bruises all over your body.” When I stepped toward him, he stepped back. “Huh? Do the rules not apply to you? Did you tell me that stupid excuse about wanting only one partner so you could fuck whoever you wanted behind my back?”
He held up his hands. “Dani, calm down. Breathe for me, please.”
“You do not tell me what to do.”
Delicious black eyes. Mouthwatering scent of cinnamon. I could feel desire clawing its way up my throat. And, this time, his lips looked so tasty.
I lunged for him, but Lucifer pulled him out of the way. “Shit, this is not going how we expected.”
My mind replayed the image of Javier underneath me, my hand wrapped lustfully around his chin as I pressed my lips to his, inhaling the power between us.
I wanted Eros, and I wanted him now.
He continued to back away from me with his hands in the air. “Dani, please. Listen to me. You need to take a deep breath. I need you to calm—” I lurched forward again, but he ducked under my arms, placed one arm around my neck and the other on my hip to steady me, and said, “Dani, please listen to me.”
I struggled against him, wanting to just turn around and take him. He pushed me a few feet and spun us around, toward the mirror next to the dresser. “Dani, you’re not yourself. Breathe.”
“What the hell do you—”
My brows furrowed together at my reflection. My eyes were pure black with a thin ring of white around the edges, my teeth were sharper than Eros’s, and there were goddamn horns on my head.
I stopped struggling and placed my trembling hands on the mirror. “Oh, my God,” I said softly. Tears welled up in my eyes. What had I become? Killing Javier, wanting to kill Eros. I was a monster.
Eros wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me close to him. “Deep breaths, Dani.”
After five minutes of breathing heavily, I watched my eyes fade back to their normal brown color. The horns disappeared and the fangs shortened into regular teeth.
“What is going on?” I asked Eros.
He looked at Lucifer, and Lucifer nodded to him. When his gaze met mine, he paused for a few moments. “You’re half demon, half angel, Dani.”
“What?” I asked in disbelief.
“Your mother was an angel and your father was a demon.” Eros grabbed my hand with the ring on it and looked down. The band was a garnet red again, still buried into my skin, and the rose-gold v pendant, which was fastened near the bottom base of the band, looked identical to Mom’s pendant. “This ring was your father’s marriage band, and the pendant was from your mother’s. Before he died, he asked me to give it to you.”
Lucifer stepped forward. “And thanks to me, the band and pendant have been merged again as one.”
I gazed between the two men, then focused on Eros. “You… you knew my father?” I asked. Mom never mentioned him and didn’t have any pictures of him, so I assumed that she didn’t know who he was or just didn’t want me to know him.
“My parents… ordered for their murders,” he said.
The woman with the red eyes was hired by Eros’s family to kill Mom, to take away my entire childhood, to murder the one person who had loved me to the fullest. And what about my dad? I never even met him and I never would. I clenched my fists. “I want to kill them.”
“They’re already taken care of,” Eros said. “I killed the two succubi in my room, had to make it look like I fucked them so my parents wouldn’t question me, then persuaded them to talk alone in the throne room so I could kill them.” Eros grabbed my hands. “If you don’t believe me, you can go check for yourself. But you should know that I would never do that to you. And, if I had to, I would never enjoy it.”
I sat on the bed on the verge of tears. From Trevon to visiting Hell with Eros to finding out my whole life was taken away from me by his parents, this was all just too much, too quickly. “Why did they kill my parents?”
“Because they didn’t think your father was fit to rule the Kingdom of Lust since he was committed to one woman who was an angel.” He shook his head with so much sorrow in his eyes. “And my mother has royal Envy blood but was a bastard child, so she never had a chance to command her kingdom. She was jealous of your father’s position, so much so that she made my father lust for power and agree to kill his commander for her.”
My eyes widened. My dad was the Commander of Lust? So… that meant that—
“So, what’s the first order of business, Commander?” Lucifer stared at me with a smirk on his lips.
“You brought me here to rule?” I asked in disbelief.
Eros brushed a finger across my bottom lip and smiled. “You’re heir to the throne, Keeper of the Ring, Queen of the Kingdom, and now the Commander of Lust. There’s no one more fit to rule than you.”
CHAPTER 44
Dani
“Harder.”
Eros shoved me against the wall, one arm wrapped under my leg, his other hand wrapped around my throat. I dug my fingers into the stone above me, looking for something—anything—to hold myself up. He pulled me closer with every thrust.
My cheeks warmed, and I breathed slowly out of my nose, my head in a fog. “More,” I said. I needed more.
I wrapped my legs around Eros’s waist. He thrusted faster and drew my nipple into his mouth, his teeth grazing against it. I clenched around him, ready to release myself, but he pulled out. “I didn’t say that you could cum yet, did I?”
“Don’t stop,” I whimpered.
He sat me on our mahogany bed and grasped my chin. “Did I?” he asked. I smirked at him, eyes wide with excitement. I could devour him for days upon days and never get tired of him. He teased my clit with his fingers. “Answer me, Dani, or I’ll rub your sensitive little clit all day and not let you cum once.”
I rested one of my arms on his shoulder, gazing into his black eyes. The pressure was building in my core, and I could just feel the head of his dick poking at my entrance. I was so damn close.
My lips parted, and he jerked his hand away. I pulled it back. “No, don’t stop, please. I’ll be good.”
“What do you want?” he asked, fingers hovering over my clit. The heat from his fingers radiated off of them, and I ached for more.
“I want you.”
He thrusted back into me quite roughly, and I came almost instantly—not being able to hold off anymore. I took a deep breath and sunk into the velvet comforter on our bed. “How long have we been here?”
“Three, maybe four hours.” He rolled off of me, breathing heavy. “You’re building your stamina nicely.”
One week had passed since the night I found out about my true origins. Eros’s parents and Javier were gone, and we had been living in the palace. To say, I’d adjusted to the way of life down here would be a lie. It was still freaky to walk into the Lust Room hall and see half-naked people, but Eros said that it’d be second nature someday.