He sniffs my shoulder, then turns and stares at the mush of octopus on the ground. “Easy is relative,” he says. “We are a badass bunch of gods and other magical beings. Pretty hard to defeat us with an army, never mind a ragtag welcome party of twenty demons.”
I glance around and grimace. “The horses are gone.”
“They’ll make their way back to Goliath. We can’t sneak them onto the mansion grounds,” Jed says, pointing ahead. We were right on course for the hidden west entrance.
“We need to sneak in without the guards alerting Zeus,” Lucifer says. “It will go easier if we can sneak through.”
“Okay, so stealth mode? I can do that,” I say, starting towards the perimeter wall. It’s a sizeable thing, maybe twelve feet high.
Our footsteps are silent in the quietening night as we leave behind Terrorism. We plaster ourselves to the granite wall and sink into the shadows as we edge towards the hidden entrance. With Lucifer in the lead and me behind him, Archan is at my back with the rest of the gang behind him.
Lucifer freezes and holds up his hand. We turn to ice sculptures awaiting the verdict.
“Can you really believe Lawrence is dead?” a masculine voice says. I glance up as two shadows move above us on top of the wall.
“Lucifer was bound to take him out sooner rather than later, the challenge couldn’t go unanswered.”
The other guy snorts. “Lucifer was a pussy letting him get away with it for so long.”
I nudge Lucifer and cock a brow at him as he looks over his shoulder.“I had my reasons.”
“Rumor has it that Pandora has him pussy whipped.”
I press my lips together to contain my laugh. Lucifer rolls his eyes. “From all accounts she’s got a harem of gods she’s banging so they protect her.”
“Wow, that’s quite the twist on the prophecy,”I say.
“Nothing is going to protect her from Zeus. He’s a whole new level of crazy. You hear what he did to Larry?”
“No, what did he do?”
“Larry prepared his meal with too much salt, so he removed his head and kept him on the dining table whilst he seasoned his food and instructed Larry on the importance of appropriate seasoning.”
“Yikes, that is crazy. Glad I’m out here.”
“Yeah, dude, out of sight, out of mind. The Duchess is even worse. One rule works one minute. The next someone is getting stabbed for the same thing.”
“These two aren’t moving on. They clearly know there is an entrance here,”Archan says.
“She’s got Candice acting all weird, I haven’t gotten laid in days. Fucking gods messing up my sure thing.”
“Dude, if you wanted a steady female you should have put a ring on it.”
I slam my hand over my mouth. Lucifer shakes his head and pinches the bridge of his nose.
“This kind of body can’t be tied to one woman. I’ve gotta spread the love. You know what I’m saying?”
“Not really, Candice is one fine demon. I’d cut my right arm off to tie down a succubus.”
I squeeze my eyes closed. This is just too funny.“We could just kill them?”Jed offers.
“And alert the rest of the guards? We don’t know how many there are up there,” Archan answers.
I shake my head and pull the trident from my back. I hand it to a confused Lucifer. Then I strip off my leather jacket and hand it to Archan.“What the fuck are you doing, woman?”
I drop a kiss on his mouth as I grab my tank and tie a knot in it so it shows my stomach and my cleavage. I tilt my head to find Marsha a few people down the row. She nods and glamors on a sexy black dress. I give her an approving smile. That will work.“What are you doing?”Lucifer says.
Marsha sways her hips as she strolls up to me.“Plan B,”I tell them as we step out of the shadows.
