When he shut the door, Dani smiled at me.“Told you.”
“What did you say to him?”
She had that glint in her eye.“I didn’t say anything.I showed him.”She traced my scar with the tip of her finger, then lightly dug into it.“Tell me about her.”
“Who?”
“Raphaela.”
I tilted my head.“Is Dani jealous?”
She scoffed.“No, I just don’t want to see Eros hurt … or get hurt myself.”
I shook my head, thinking back to the days in Heaven that I had spent with him behind Raphaela’s back.“You don’t need to worry about that.”I stood and picked up my shirt from the side of the bed.
“Why was she in our dream?”she asked.
I chuckled.“Maybe she’s finally deciding to sin with me.After all these years, I made that angel devilish.”She arched a brow, pursed her lips, and rolled her eyes.“You don’t believe that I can turn someone into a devil?”I stepped closer to her and grabbed the sides of her face.“Let me show you.”
Dani rolled those hazel eyes and hopped off of the bed, daring me to do whatever I wanted.“I already told you that you won’t be able to do anything of sorts.”
I smirked and widened my eyes, taking in all of her and willing her to see me for who I was and who I wanted her to be, what I wanted her to see, how I wanted her to act.Devilish.More devilish than she already was.
For a split second, her features softened.Then Raphaela’s eyes stared back at me.I pushed Dani away.
Her eyes grew wide, and then her brows pulled together.“Lucifer, what’s wrong?”
She grabbed my hands, but I pulled back and stepped away.
“Why does she keep fucking with me?”
“She’s here?”Dani’s jaw tightened.“Here, in my kingdom?”Her hand tightened into a fist until her knuckles were white.
“I have to go,” I said.“Get her fucking out.”
She snarled.“Let me come with you.She should bepunished.”
“No.”
She arched a brow.“No?”She shook her head.“She interruptedmydream last night.”
I took her hands in mine.“Let me handle this.She’s my problem.I will take care of her.”
She raised a brow and poked me in the chest.“Well, I expect you to be here tonight for the party.”Her words were more than what they were.She was planning something, and it didn’t even seem like Eros knew about it yet.
“I’d never miss a party in Lust.”
Seventeen
With that,I traveled to the humansphere to find myself someone who could exorcise an angel from the body of a demon.And I knew just the man.A friendly neighborhood priest with an insane phobia of demons, specifically me, was exactly who I needed right now.
Dani’s old neighborhood was just as I remembered.When you had been alive for centuries, even the biggest changes in the neighborhood tended to seem small.
The church was a bland wooden building, but the sun gleaming over the horizon gave it a golden glow.It reminded me of the hills in my and Raphaela’s backyard when we had lived together in Heaven.
I didn’t try to disguise myself like I usually did in the humansphere.This idiot could tell who I was with or without the horns.
Before I entered the church, I glanced up at the cross and smirked.They thought that symbol kept demons away.If anything, the crosses, especially the once without holy power, did nothing but burn us slightly.Nothing fatal.
