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“Everything okay, mate?” Linden asks with sharp eyes. Oakley looks ragged. Beyond exhausted. He steps up to me and before he can even get his arms around me, I’m crying.
“Shh, sweetheart, I’m okay. You’re okay.”
“Wh-what d-did you do?”
“I called in a favor with a mate of mine.”
“Who?”
“Erm…”
“I swear to god, incubus, you better spill right now!” My tears are still falling but I can chastise at the same time. Multitasking at its best.
“Lucifer.”
“Please tell me that’s the name of a mafia leader you know.”
“Hmmm, well he does run the underworld.”
“Please tell me that’s the local MC club.”
“He lives a little further...south babe.”
“You made a deal with the freaking devil for me?!”
“Babe, I’m a demon, he’s practically family.”
“What are the terms?”
“Huh?”
“Ash said you signed a contract.”
“Idiot!” Oak barks, spinning to cuss out Ash.
“Sorry, dude! She was asking lots of questions!” Ash replies defensively.
“Then you should have lied!” Oak hisses.
“You’d lie to me?” I gasp, hurt.
“What? No! I’d never lie to you, sweetheart.” He spins back to face me, frowning and looking upset.
“So what did you barter for my safety?”
“Lucifer agreed to take that asshole away and to keep him for all eternity, but in exchange, he wanted to place one of his...sons here on earth. A soul for a soul sort of thing.”
“W-who?” I whisper.
“Sweetheart, please. You have to understand, he wanted to take you too! I couldn’t allow that. So we agreed that in 12 months time he could send one of his sons to live in a body.”
“Whose body, Oakley?” My voice is a warning.
“Jasper’s,” he whispers.
My face falls and I drop my gaze to the tiny pup sleeping in my arms. I cuddle him closer like I can somehow protect him from the deal with the actual devil that neither of us had any say in.
“Why a year from now?”
