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I drag myself down the hall to the busy dining room. Everyone is sitting around the table and already busy talking and grabbing food. I throw myself into my normal chair as Knots sets a plate full of food before me.
“Here you go. It looks like you need it.” He smiles and gives me a kiss on the forehead, regardless of my sweat.
“You might have to feed me,” I mumble. Murmur seriously ran me through the wringer, but I was able to reproduce my sharp needles once, but that was because he belittled a few of my men. I couldn’t direct them to any of the dummies that he wanted, though. My entire body aches, and I just want a shower and a nap.
“I’ll feed you.” Ryker winks across the table from me.
“I don’t have the energy, but I could feed you. Do you have a face-sitting fetish? Because this would be the time to do it. There would be no problem with this woman hovering over your face. You would suffocate while I slept.”
Zeke spits out his drink all over the table while JP perks up and looks over at me. “Really?”
“Which part?” I ask as my head rolls across the back of the chair, cracking my neck.
“Suffocating me?” JP asks.
“With the way I’m feeling? Yes,” I groan.
“Ah, I see we’ve gotten to the porno portion of the evening. You kids keep us quite entertained,” Lucifer speaks up at the end of the table.
I roll my eyes, which takes a great amount of effort, and mumble, “That’s just because you’re not getting laid.”
“I heard that,” he says.
“You were supposed to,” I sing-song, and notice one person is missing. “Has anyone seen Lynx?” I ask no one in particular.
“No, now that you mention it, I haven’t seen him since we checked out the library,” Moni informs me.
“Library?” I ask, perking up in my seat. There’s a library here?
“Yeah! While you were being tortured, we were too!” Moni says cheerfully. I raise an eyebrow in question, and it’s Chester who answers.
“We’re looking to see if there’s another way out of Hell, or anything about the portals.”
A growl rings out from the hall as Lynx comes trotting in with Trometh, who’s crying and hanging from his mouth. By the looks of the blood dripping onto the floor, I’m sure Lynx isn’t holding him by just his clothes.
“What the fuck?” Astaroth yells, jumping up from his chair.
“I knew he was crazy, but to piss off the Wrath Demon? Fuuuuck!” Ryker hisses. “Lynx must have bigger balls than any creature I know”
“Don’t tell him that. It will all go to his head,” I hiss out.
“Nope, it’s gonna go to his balls, where it should… apparently,” Ryker states.
“Astaroth, no need to murder anyone,” Lilith purrs and motions for him to sit down. “Lynx, why don’t you release Trometh so we can get to the bottom of this.”
‘The fuck I will,’ Lynx replies with a scoff. Unfortunately, I’m the only one that can hear him, and I realize it too late as everyone stares at him, waiting.
“Oh, um… He doesn’t feel comfortable letting him loose, yet,” I relay and quickly glance between Lynx and Lucifer, when the latter’s brow quirks and the rest of L.A.M.B. shifts. “I’ll find out why.”
“That would be best,” Lucifer says in a dead voice as fire dances in his eyes.
I clear my throat as I bring my attention to Lynx. ‘Want to tell me why we aren’t releasing the Archimedes of Arthur and Merlin’s group? I’d rather leave Hell in one piece.’
‘Pfft. Archimedes is nothing but a stuffed chicken, or in this case, a big rat. I found him talking to Angel in the Crucible about their contract, and they were negotiating when I came upon them,’ he says smugly, and all color drains from my face.
I do what any sane person does in this situation. I slowly start laughing as I stand from my chair and start backing up from the table and subtly shoo Lynx back from the room. Yep, we’re all gonna die. I saw what happened when L.A.M.B. thought they had a rat in their service and had to clean their house. What would they do when we presented the big cheese right here at the dinner table?
I sure as Hell don’t want to know. The sound of a chair scraping on the floor brings my attention to JP’s shocked look as he looks at Lynx and back to me.
