Minos certainly couldn’t look at that mortal and hold onto his composure, so he sighed and ducked through the doorway back into Limbo, his size already shrinking down to something resembling normal.
Once he wasn’t staring at the pitiful excuse for a soul anymore, he looked down at Adam, who was staring up at him.
“My soul, are you alright?” he asked. It must have come as quite a shock to run into his ex in what he thought of as a safe place.
Heads would roll for that.
“Calm down, big guy. I’m fine. Surprised, sure, but I’m not distraught. Tim is a dick and I was over him a long time ago. You cured me of any lingering insecurities he left me with,” Adam assured Minos, leaning up to kiss him. “I’m actually sort of curious what he’s been up to, to be honest, and how he ended up in your judgment chamber.”
Minos grunted at that, because he was quite curious about that himself. Now that he was no longer overcome with a burning desire to decapitate Adam’s ex, he realized a few things.
First, Tim was not a soul who should be in judgment. He was an asshole, but Minos had not sensed the evil in him necessary for a placement in hell.
Second, and perhaps more important—Tim wasn’t technically dead.
He now understood the leadership team’s confusion. What did you do with alivingmortal soul in the afterlife?
He made his way back through Limbo and found Cutie and Scowly right where he’d left them. He could barely address them by name without laughing, but he knew if he offended them that his sassy little human would not be pleased. Adam could give hell and punishment with the best of them, but when he decided he liked someone, he was just as fierce, and for whatever reason, these two were now firmly in thepeople we likecategory.
Minos didn’t like many, so he let Adam decide who belonged in that category. It worked out best that way.
Unfortunately, Cutie and Scowly were not alone.
“Darling! Who are these treasures you’ve been hiding from me?” Pandora purred. She was in full flirt mode, although Minos wanted to tell her not to bother. Usually leadership team members were completely uninterested in anything outside of their jobs, including sex.
When Pandora rested her hand on Cutie’s chest, however, he looked totally uncomfortable. Scowly reached over and removed her hand, scowling at her. Pandora merely raised an eyebrow. Cutie then moved closer to Scowly, and their wings rubbed up against each other.
Interesting. Very interesting.
He glanced down at Adam, who was staring up at him with a knowing look. Yes—there was something there. He raised his eyebrows. Should they encourage something between two leadership team members?
Adam raised his eyebrow in response, then smirked and patted Minos’s chest. Yes, they should encourage something between those two, because that would totally be fun as far as Adam was concerned.
Minos gave a bit of a shrug. He supposed it couldn’t hurt, and it might actually diminish the corporate drone feeling of the leadership team. He smirked a bit then, because he also knew his Adam was a total sucker for romances.
“You know, it’s really creepy how I can tell you two are having an entire conversation in looks and gestures while the rest of us have no idea what’s going on,” Pandora said drily.
Minos looked up at her then. “We need someplace private to talk,” he responded.
Next thing he knew, there was an empty booth right behind him.
“Girl, you have gotten scary good at dealing with Limbo,” Adam gushed.
“Yes, well, ever since the incident”—she glared at Cutie and Scowly—“I’ve been working hard on manipulating things here. It’s been quite enlightening.”
Scowly scowled and said, “That was not our decision. Cutie wasn’t even in that meeting.”
Pandora looked perplexed for a moment. “Cutie?” she asked.
“Oh my gosh, Pandora! I named them! That’s Cutie, and that’s Scowly!” Adam gushed, pointing to each of them. “Isn’t it fantastic! I have naming powers! And since I named them, I have adopted them and shall care for them and they shall be mine forever and ever!”
Pandora, pain in the ass that she was, squealed. “That’s perfect! We now have our own leadership team people! They can be like our spies and we can use them for the forces of good… or evil… or whatever we’re in the mood for at the moment. Such fun!”
Minos sighed. “They are not spies,” he muttered. Adam started to talk, and Minos interrupted him, saying, “Nor are they puppies.”
Adam pouted a bit at that, and Pandora looked unconvinced. Cutie and Scowly just looked confused. Poor things. They had no idea what they were in for with these two.
With that, Minos slid into the booth while still holding Adam, Pandora followed, and Cutie and Scowly continued to stand there and look confused.
