His brown hair was straight. "Why isn't your hair curly?" I asked. It was always curly.
He grinned and gave me a bashful wink. "I watch your beauty blog."
My mouth dropped. "You're joking."
Gabriel snorted. "I do, too, but I haven't tried out any of her techniques."
Michael shrugged. "I tried the straightening thing with that one brand you like best, and I like the way it makes my hair look."
I ran my fingers through his silken hair, loving the feel of it against my skin. "I'll have to do a blog on you for the male fans."
Adam arched an eyebrow. Er, no. Michael, not Adam. "I hope we won't have time to do that. Now that you remember, let's see what we can do to get Lucifer killed and go home."
Dread shot across my chest. "What are you talking about?" I bolted upright and struggled off the couch. One of them put a hand on my back and pushed, which I appreciated, but was too distracted and alarmed to thank them. "Kill Lucian?"
As I turned around, Gabriel held out his hand. I put mine in his but kept my eyes narrowed. "Lilith." He said my name with emphasis.
"I know who I am. This human brain has a hard time separating emotion between me and Constance, though."
Gabe nodded. "I know, and it's okay. We're not upset with you at all, but we have to kill Lucifer. He has to go home."
"He is home," I protested, even though I knew he wasn't. "Everything is good here. You can come to visit me when he's at work. When he's himself again, he'll understand. It's not like cheating."
Though, the Constance in me worried that Lucian would find out while he didn't have his Lucifer memories. Me being near these two men, that Lucian had no idea were his eternal best friends, would break his heart.
"I told you yesterday why we have to figure this out quickly."
The gates. "I remember." The gates were weakening. If they fell, it would be Hell on Earth. Literally. "But surely we have a little time?" I rubbed my protruding stomach as Turtle kicked. "At least until I have the baby."
"Lilith, that's another thing we need to discuss. How you're pregnant and what it means for the baby. Is it human?" Adam held his hand out.
Michael. Damn it. I couldn't get it straight. "I don't know, but Lucian can't die before I have the baby. You know what happens when Lucian dies."
Gabriel and Michael nodded in unison.
"I refuse to let anything happen to Lucian." I was being stubborn, but damn. They didn't understand at all. "You two have been busy lately. I know you are best friends, but you don't know how Lucifer has been. Not all of it."
Tears filled my eyes as my Lilith memories of the past few centuries drifted to the surface. My human hormones didn't help a damn thing either. "You've been spending a lot of time on Earth, doing angel things."
"It's our job," Michael said. "We're supposed to help humans find their way to God and Heaven."
"I know, but that means you rarely spend time with me and Lucifer day in and day out. You get to pop in for a few days, relax, wine and dine me and have fun." Admittedly, that time with them was fun, but our relationship dynamic had shifted. "You spend increasingly long amounts of time away, missing how Lucifer has changed. He must seem the same to you, but to me, someone who sees him every day, the shift is palpable."
Michael's face darkened. "What do you mean?"
I gave him an exasperated look. "In all the centuries, all the times you've been on Earth with Lucifer, has he ever been like this?"
Michael went silent. His eyes roamed the room as he thought about my question. "No, you're right. He's different this time."
It was growing easier to filter through all my memories as both Lilith and Constance. Pieces were falling together, giving me realizations. "He's not this guy. This guy, Lucian?" I stepped away from the couch and looked at the photos on the walls. "Look at this. He was valedictorian." I pointed at another photo, blown up. "Here's where he won the golf championship at the local country club."
Turning back to my brothers, I held my arms out. "Country club, guys. Country club. Lucifer Morningstar doesn't frequent country clubs."
That was more of an Adam thing. Michael. I blew out a breath of exasperation. He wasn’t always Adam when on Earth. It wasn’t athingthat we were always the same humans. It was a big coincidence, though, that Michael had beentheAdam. Eve had been the first real human when it came right down to it. And all the rumors about Lilith being Adam's first wife were my fault. Eve saw me visiting him. Adam hadn't seen me, but she had, and bam. The world's first rumor.
Of course, Adam and Eve weren't the first humanoid creatures. God had been experimenting with humans for a very long time. They were simply the first homo sapiens. The rest is history. Bloody, violent history.
Humans bred like bunnies. Once Adam and Eve had their kids, God banned any angel-human bambinos. Of course, they still existed. Hello, legends about Nephilim. They existed in secret, on the DL. But two angels, on Earth as humans having a baby, never happened as far as I knew.
