“No.”
I frowned at her as I tapped my fingers on the table. “Can you harvest power from things?”
She released a small snort and shook her head. “Nope, I’ve never had that happen before.”
I pondered her words as I studied her. She appeared to be telling me the truth, but there could be something she was keeping from me or maybe even something she didn’t know she could do. “I’m going to teach you how to use your power and increase it,” I said.
“Why?”
“Because you may be the only one who can close the gateway the humans created again.”
Her mouth dropped open before a burst of laughter escaped her. “You’ve lost your mind.”
“No, I haven’t.”
“How couldIbe able to do such a thing?”
“Because you are the only living progeny of Lucifer.”My mortal enemy and the bane of my existence, I kept those words back as she looked tempted to bolt.
The increased smell of her sweat drifted to me along with the accelerated thump of her heart. She’d yet to run screaming from anything she’d encountered so far, but this may be what finally pushed her over the edge. Instead, she remained sitting, outwardly calm while I sensed the changes in her body.
“Are you going to explain or is this going to be another one of those, if I need to know things?” she inquired in a steady voice.
“This is something you need to know.” Her pulse increased further as excitement radiated in her eyes. She would finally have her answers, answers I wished I didn’t have to give her.
CHAPTER 21
Kobal
“When Lucifer was cast out of Heaven, he spent some time on Earth. I’m not sure how much, some say months, others say years, some say only days,” I told her. “Only Lucifer and his angels know the truth, and they keep it to themselves. During this time, he and his followers sheared off their wings to fit in with the humans. They also started to become something different from the angels they had been.”
“A demon?”
“We believe it was a mixture of human, demon, and angel.”
“Why were they changing?”
“I don’t know if it was the removal of their wings that caused the first changes to take place or if it was because they were shut off from their world, forced to live in a plane not their own, and one that would eventually destroy them all.”
Her fingers drummed on the table as she contemplated my words. “How many angels fell?”
“I don’t know. They say a third were tossed from Heaven, but only fifty survived their time on Earth to enter Hell. I have no idea how many angels there were before Lucifer was cast out.”
“So Lucifer lived amongst humans?”
“Yes and he procreated with them.”
“You mean to tell me an angel, who never saw Earth, and knew he wouldn’t be capable of living eternally on it, spent his time on our plane looking to get laid?”
I smiled at her as I leaned back in my seat and folded my hands before me. “Fucking doesn’t sound like such a bad way to pass the time to me, especially since he’d never had the pleasure before. It’s not an act angels get to enjoy.”
She blinked at my words, and color blossomed high in her cheeks. I shifted as blood flooded my groin and my gaze fell to the breasts I’d watched her caressing. I knew she was recalling that night too when her breathing picked up and her nipples strained against her shirt.
She lifted her goblet and took a sip before lowering it and wiping the wine away from her lips. My gaze fell on her full mouth, stained a deeper red by the wine now. What I wouldn’t give to run my tongue over those exquisite, pouty lips and to taste her as she panted beneath me.
“But demons get to enjoy it,” she said in a husky voice that set my blood on fire.
I tore my gaze from her lips and looked her in the eyes once more. The lanterns flickering over her cast her in a sensual light that had me digging my nails into the table to keep from reaching for her.
