“I know.”
He leaned his forehead against mine. “Am I forgiven?”
My mind replayed the video. The desperation of the people I loved to save me, no matter the cost to themselves.
“Yes.”
He exhaled, and his shoulders relaxed. “Thank you.”
“If you guys are getting naked, take it outside to the brothel,” Dayna sing-songed from the dining room.
“Tempting,” Hudson said as he pressed a searching kiss against my mouth.
My heart raced with anticipation. No, we couldn’t do this here. I needed time and privacy for all the ways I planned to have this man on his knees. I tore my lips away.
“Let’s find out why my father is here,” I grumbled.
“Fine, but this isn’t finished.”
“I hope it never is.”
His grin was wicked. “I see we need to explore your limits.”
I smacked his chest. “I meant us in general, not us with no clothes on.”
“I can do many things to make your eyes cross with our clothes still on.”
I rolled my eyes. “Okay, stud.”
“Are you challenging me?”
I pushed him away and ducked under his arm before glancing at him over my shoulder. “Always, Principal.”
Maggie sat cross-legged on a chair, flicking through something on her phone. Good. I was grateful she wasn’t witnessing the orgy over in Summer Grove House.
A tray containing a steaming pot of tea and several cups and saucers floated into the room and arranged itself on the dining table. I smiled at the Beauty and the Beast reference.
We settled in a group, and I relished the perfect blend of tea leaves that warmed my chest and settled my soul.
Abbadon raised a brow as he sipped from his cup. “That is a delicious blend, Miss Roberts.”
Dayna winked at him. “A family secret.”
No, it was actually just the luxury brand from the farmer’s market that graced White Castle every Friday.
Sophia dropped a lump of sugar in Lucifer’s cup and stirred it for him. He didn’t even blink before drinking. My aunt materialized a ball of wool from her skirts and began crocheting. Still with the pink and the small.
“You succeeded,” Lucifer checked. “Eloise is alone?”
Dayna’s lips turned down. “We did.”
“Then why do you look like someone who lost?”
Sophia paused with her hook in the air. “Just because we knew it was the correct thing, doesn’t make it easier when there is a gap in our hearts for the matriarch of the family.”
“I’m more concerned with the burst of god power that awoke beasts and brethren,” Abbadon said with an expectant look at me.
I shrugged. “I needed help to get the remnants under control.”
