Then all that would remain would be the two of us.
The night sky and brightest star.
A distant buzzing sounded from somewhere in my house. Serenity and I were the only ones here since Drake, the man I’d previously had captive in my basement, had finally been executed by my fellow demons earlier this month. After a few more seconds of honing in on the sound, I realized it was a phone. With a wave of my hand, the device causing the sound appeared in my hand. Though, it wasn’tmyphone. I nearly growled when I saw Bradley’s name lighting up Serenity’s screen. It was past one in the morning, so what could that fucker possibly want from her?
With a glance at her, I swiped to answer the call and put it to my ear, still staring at the top of her head. I didn’t speak. I just listened.
“Serenity? Dollface? Are you there?”
I responded flatly, “She’s unavailable at the moment.”
The bastard on the other end went quiet. When he spoke next, he did so through clenched teeth. “Where is she?”
“Naked against my chest. Can I take a message?”
“You fucking bastard,” Bradley raged on the other end. “You’re a fucking liar.”
“Takes one to know one,” I chuckled darkly. “But for once, I’m not lying.”
The call suddenly ended. I pulled the phone back to grin triumphantly at the screen when a video call came through. He really wanted to see? I had no issue shoving this in his face, but Serenity was asleep. I didn’t want this maniacal bastard wakingher up. With a quick thought from me, shadows converged around Serenity’s ears. The black wisps would be invisible to Bradley’s eyes, and they’d block any sound from reaching the slumbering beauty.
I answered the video call, the screen filling with the image of my bearded chin still resting on top of Serenity’s head while her face pressed into my chest. Her front was covered with the sheet. I wouldn’t have let him see her exposed like that, even if it was something he’d seen before. He didn’t deserve that fucking honor. But the sight of her bare shoulders was enough to get the message across.
His pale face fell in shock, and I didn’t bother hiding my smug grin.
“She’s really sleeping with you?”
“Would you like to see my cum still seeping out of her pussy, too?”
Bradley dropped the phone for a second, his angry hisses and curses filling the background. The sound of glass shattering and items being overturned followed. When he came back into view, his face had gone red, and his brow was furrowed so hard that I thought it would get stuck like that.
“She’s not yours,” Bradley fumed.
“Certainly looks that way to me,” I replied. “Give up. She’ll never come back to you. Why would she when she realizes there’s so much more out there than a minute man who doesn’t even know what a clit is, let alone how to pleasure one?”
Bradley’s face went an even deeper shade of red. He leapt to his feet as though doing so would allow him to come through the phone to strangle me. “You want to talk a big game, stupid fucker? Huh? You aren’tshit! You don’t know anything!”
“Say what you want.” I pulled Serenity closer, and she sighed happily against me. A sweet burst of pride shot through me whenBradley’s expression fell at the sound. “But I think her being here with me speaks volumes. It’s over, Bradley. You’ve lost.”
His jaw clenched, and the video became blurry from how hard he shook on the other end. The silence that followed was music to my ears.
“Don’t ever call my girl again,” I hissed before hanging up the phone.
I tossed the device aside and refocused on Serenity in my arms. My blood warmed with the thrill of ending this game I’d set into motion forever ago. But even more than that, I basked in how good it felt to call her that.
My girl.
Because she was.
“ARE YOU HUMMING?”
I looked up at Xander, who watched me with a teasing smirk. He’d cut off the long half of his hair to match the shorter layer on the other side since the last time I’d seen him. Now, the top of his black hair just barely brushed across his forehead as he raised a slender dark brow at me.
Zagan and Perseus studied me with equally knowing grins while Coldin—the only sweet soul in this room right now—stared blankly at the music sheets we were working on. I’d much rather be in my silk sheets with a certain naked body draped over mine, but Iyla had invited a couple of the girls in the growing friend group to go shopping downtown. That invite had included Serenity, which had immediately made her brighten. When I saw how excited she was to be included and invited into this group of supportive people, I couldn’t keep her to myself. Sowhile she was out with the girls, I tried to focus on my duties here.
It was only after Xander’s teasing question pulled me from my thoughts that I realized I was smiling and, apparently,humming.
Immediately schooling my face, I shrugged and gestured at the sheet music I held. “I was humming the new song, ‘Sparrow.’”
