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“Will you stay with me, at least until I fall back to sleep?”
Silently, Lucifer stands and lifts the covers. I snuggle in, and he pulls the blankets up over my shoulders. He walks to the door and closes it. Flipping the light switch off, he returns to bed and crawls under the covers beside me. I curl into his side, resting my cheek on his chest. He wraps an arm around me, pulling me in closer.
I breathe deep the warm scents of amber and sunshine, allowing it to fill me from head to toe with a calming energy. I pull myself closer, my body flush against his side, hooking a leg over his. His arm around my back tightens, and his other hand grips mine on his chest. His lips press against the top of my head, and comfort passes through me.
“Sleep, butterfly. You’re not alone anymore. You never will be again. You’re safe here with me.” The deep timbre of his voice lulls me into a state of peace, and I know two things. First, every word he spoke is true, and second, I’ve fallen undeniably in love with the Kinkade brothers.
Cane in one hand,gift box in the other, I lean against Eden’s doorway, watching as she moves with grace around her room. Despite her recent injuries, with the regular training exercises and new diet containing actual food, her body has begun to heal, evident in the way she carries herself and in the smoothness of her movements.
She slips on a black leather jacket over her blood-red tank top, pairing it with the black leather pants that hug her hips in all the right ways, and black combat boots. The complete attire screams sin and seduction, though I’m sure that’s not how she sees it. No, with the high blonde ponytail, black eyeliner, and fingerless riding gloves, I’m sure she’s aiming for the badass,don’t fuck with mevibe.
Every cell in my body craves to be near her. To touch her. To strip her down and do wicked things to her until she’s crying out my name.
“Knock, knock,” I say, and she whips around. Her eyes wide and mouth hanging open. I grin at how utterly adorable she looks. “Surprise.”
“Kain,” she nearly shouts and speed walks in my direction.
I stand up, leaning into the cane and open my other arm wide to her. “Easy, I’m still recovering.”
She slides to a stop and gently wraps her arms around me. “You’re up,” she exclaims.
“Much to Wyatt’s protests. I couldn’t let you go to the meeting without me. And I brought you presents.” I hold up the gift box, giving it a little shake.
She pulls back and looks up at me with narrow eyes. I bark a laugh, followed by a groan of pain. “Is it a box of nuts from Sid and his men?” she asks, her tone serious and maybe even a little hopeful.
“Not yet, but those will be coming soon enough. I have my own vengeance to seek on them. I was just starting to love that SUV. I finally had it perfumed to perfection with your delicious scent. And they went and crashed it,” I growl the last part, pulling Eden back into me and kissing her hard, biting and sucking on her lower lip until she’s moaning into my mouth.
I drop my forehead to rest on hers and whisper between gasps of breath, “Open. The. Box.”
Obediently, she takes the top off the box. “Oh, Kain. These are beautiful.” She reaches into the box and pulls out the twin boot knives in one hand and the twin daggers in the other. “I don’t know what to say.”
I take the daggers from her hand and place them back in the box. “Let’s get you dressed. Those two,” I point to the knives still in her hand, “are boot knives. You clip them inside your boot, either on the inside or outside of your ankle. For ease of access, I’d clip them to the outside.”
I start to lower myself to the floor, but I don’t make it too far before Eden grips my elbows.
“Kain, stop. What are you doing? You’re still hurt. Besides, I can do it,” she says quickly, an incredulous look on her face
“I just wanted to present my Cinderella with boot knives the way she deserves. With her suitor down on one knee.”
Eden chuckles, shaking her head, and rolls her eyes. She drops to one knee and secures the knives in place. “So, being down here, does that make me both Cinderella and the suitor? Or am I the suitor and you my Cinderella?
“You’re not funny,” I say straight faced.
She stands and places a hand on my cheek. “Come now, princess, that was hilarious.”
I drop the box and grab Eden around her waist and pull her back into me. “I’ll show you hilarious, princess,” I growl low and bite her just below her ear, where she’s more sensitive. Not hard enough to break the skin, but just enough to edge her into pain before soothing the area with soft licks and kisses.
“Kain,” she moans as I suck deeply on the side of her neck, tasting that sweet metallic tang as blood rushes to the surface.
I release her neck and examine the livid bruise left behind. A marble of purples and blues in a near perfect circle. Eden’s hand flies up, covering my mark, and a possessiveness rolls through me, underlined with anger at her for daring to deny my claim.
“Do not fucking cover that up. Do you understand me?” I growl, snatching her hand away from her neck and biting her inner wrist. “Everyone will know you’re mine by it, or I can have it tattooed to your forehead. Whichever you prefer.”
The irate look she shoots me has me in stitches. Well, trying to pull them at least.
“I thought only your brother was this big of a possessive alpha-hole. I can’t have two of you acting like this, Kain. I’m a human being, not a fucking dog.”
“But the idea of us both wanting to own and possess you—that doesn’t seem to bother you,” Lucifer says, stepping into the room and coming to stand behind Eden, pinning her between our bodies. He leans down and kisses the side of her neck opposite my mark.
