Eros gazed at me with curious eyes.“Are we what, Lucifer?”
I cocked a smile.“Are we … what do the humans call it?A throuple?”
Dani scrunched her nose.“God, Luci … anything but that word.”
She curled into Eros’s arm, snuggling closer to him and reaching for my hand across Eros’s body.I placed my drink down on the dresser and sat next to Eros.He gazed up at me with those heavenly eyes that I had seen so many times.
“I think he’s trying to ask if we’re official,” Dani said into his ear, drawing her fingertips down his abdomen.
“I know what I asked,” I said.“No need to clarify.”
She made a face at me, and Eros smiled at her.Then he looked at me, and his smile fell.
“Do I want to try all over again with you?”he asked.
He stared down at Dani’s fingers as if he was actually thinking about it, as if he didn’t know yet.And for once … I felt nervous.
No, the king of Pride didn’t get nervous often, but after seeing the man I had been in love with when I fell from Heaven, letting him fall with me, then spending eternity apart … Heavens … I wanted him back, but I didn’t know if he wanted me back.
I wanted him to love me again.I wanted to love him.The way we had loved in Heaven.Though sinful, though illegal, true.True love that I had never found after him … but that would all change.Hopefully.
He took a deep breath and smiled, eyes a heavenly green.“Yes,” he said.“I would like a second chance with you.”
He wanted me.
Eros wanted me.
I almost couldn’t believe it, but then … who wouldn’t wantme?
I smiled at him.
He cocked his finger in my direction, cracked a smile, and said, “Come here.”
He grabbed my arm and pulled me down to him, placing a kiss on my lips.I relaxed into him, his body finally conforming to my touch.We hadn’t been together, like this, for thousands and thousands of years.
Dani cleared her throat.“And … what about me?”
He chuckled and kissed her on the lips.I lay down next to him, propped up on one elbow, and brushed my fingers against his cheek when one of Dani’s guards burst through the door.
“Sathanus’s horns hang above the Pits!They hang above the Pits!”
Thirty-Five
Dani pulleda shirt over her body and walked toward him.“What are you doing here?Why are you disrupting us?”
After bowing his head, he gazed back at her with the most sorrowful expression on his face.I furrowed my brows together, gazing between Dani and the guard, and stood up next to her.
“Commander Sathanus burns in the Tartarus, Queen,” he said, eyes glowing the lightest shade black when he looked at her and her body.“I didn’t mean to disturb you.I thought you needed to know since you had called for the meeting between all commanders that seemed urgen?—”
“Sathanus is dead?”she asked, brow arched hard.She looked at me, brows scrunched.“A commander has fallen?By who?”
I rolled my eyes.“Probably accidentally fell into the Pits himself.”
The guard shook his head.“By his son.”
Dani’s eyes widened.“His son?Biast?”
“Biast Sathanus.”The guard nodded his head, and I could hear Dani’s heart drop.
