The taller demon near the doorway pinched the bridge of his nose as though personally offended by everything happening in front of him. His attention returned to my demon while cold air continued pouring into the room around him.
“You are aware this is humiliating.”
My demon was completely unbothered. “I am comfortable here.”
“You are living in a one-bedroom apartment.”
“There is cereal.”
“That is not a defense.”
“We also have strawberries.”
I covered my face instantly. “STOP BRINGING UP THE STRAWBERRIES.”
Nina sounded beyond exhausted now. “I genuinely think fruit changed the course of this relationship.”
“There IS no relationship.”
My demon glanced toward me calmly. “That title would simplify several conversations.”
“You cannot keep saying things like that while I’m psychologically vulnerable.”
The taller demon stared at him for another long second before looking around the apartment again. His eyes landed briefly on the candles still scattered across the floor, then the coffee mugs, then the folded blankets on the couch.
Then he met my gaze.
“…You made him comfortable.”
I blinked. “Excuse me?”
My demon answered before I could continue panicking. “She did.”
The taller demon was more disturbed by that answer. “You hate comfort.”
“That is inaccurate.”
“You once set an entire palace wing on fire because somebody bought decorative pillows.”
“They were aggressively decorative.”
I stared at my demon in horror. “You burned down a palace over PILLOWS?”
“They had peppa pig printed on it .”
I couldn’t really blame him.
Nina fixed me with a look. “See? THIS is why you liking him concerns me.”
“I do not LIKE him.”
My demon quietly reached over and pulled the blanket from the back of the couch around my shoulders before I could continue yelling. The movement was so casual he barely seemed aware he was doing it.
Then he stepped away again like wrapping blankets around the disaster prone mortal was completely normal behavior for demon princes.
The apartment stayed still for a second before every expression in the room changed at once. Horror flashed across the taller demon's face, while Nina rubbed both hands over her face like her sanity had officially submitted its resignation.
And I stood there frozen with the blanket still around my shoulders while my brain completely stopped functioning again.
