Yeah, those were some good points. Why Mom and not me too? I’d moved out and married when she got sick, but we were still close and kept to our traditions when I was growing up. We did horror movies and comfort food several times a month. If I got in a fight with my ex, I was over at her place bitching while she backed me up, even if I happened to be wrong that time.
When my magic started showing up, I thought it was perimenopause. Mom had already gone through menopause when she got sick. She would have told me if she got magic powers becauseImight get magical powers. Her angel blood must have been to diluted, but why curse her?
“You’re going to drive yourself insane with all thewhat ifs.I don’t know who Lucifer gave access to his secret passages to. I’ve been gone from Hell a very long time. It was too painful to come back. Lucifer never visited me either. Satan did plenty of times and brought all of his kids. I knew what Lucifer was upto because of Satan’s visits, but Satan shared his business like I was just his good friend because he didn’t know the truth about us. The people Lucifer would have given access to when we were together could be very different now. What matters right now is changing the locks.”
“Cool, but I have zero control over my magic. I may blow the place up.”
“I believe your Fury helped with that when you were most likely to blow my house up.”
I looked at Kujo because credit where credit was due. I needed some kind of intervention after finding out someone cursed my mother.
“I never thanked you for that.”
“Say less. Nero, Celix, and me will always be there when you need us. Re-key the locks and then we’ll see if you can drop me when Iknowyou’re a black belt. And I happen to know nut sack kicks are forbidden in karate, so we’ll play by the rules this time.”
Lilith cocked an eyebrow at me.
“You assaulted a Fury in the testicles when you don’t have functioning mental shields yet?”
I shrugged.
“Sometimes I am full of rage and poor decisions. Obi Wan me and teach me some magic.”
“Well, it’s a blood spell, so you’re going to need some of your blood.”
I’d never needed to spill my blood for anything, but I also wasn’t a complete moron like the people in movies I watched that did this. I cut the top of my forearm instead of the palm of my hand. I didnotneed a gaping knife wound on body parts I’d be using as weapons or what I needed to hold weapons. Yes, it looked badass to slice your palm open and squeeze your blood over a magical chalice, but it also looked like a good way to endup with some painful wound in your gut that took forever to kill you.
No thank you.
“What do I do know?”
“Magic is about intent. You’re going to add your blood to the black salt and the line the door with it. Then you’re going to put your intention into it and who exactly you want to allow in the secret passages.”
“What if I just want it to me Nero, Celix, Kujo, and me?”
“That’s probably safest until you know who your enemies are.”
So, that was what I did. And nothing exploded. The black salt with my blood briefly shimmered white and then the spell was done.
Score one for me.
Iwas glad Kujo mostly had his head out of his ass because I’d been shipping that ass and Sydney since she punched him in the nuts. IknewI was right. Kujo didn’t need meditation or scented candles to get a vision. He needed to empty his mind by hitting things. Sydney knew this and that was why she suggested it.
Lilith helped us with the spell. Lilith also taught Sydney how to charge this random crystal Lucifer had lying around to let us know if there was an angel skulking around the property or hiding in the passages as it were. We were safe, so Sydney sealed off the passages.
We left each other to change clothes and meet in Lucifer’s sparring room. The three of us were in our usual sweats with noshirts on. We didn’t usual spar topless, but males usually showed off to attract females in the animal kingdom and we were no different.
Sydney breezed in with her long, white blonde hair pulled back into a bun. She was wearing black leggings and another tank and I think we all zeroed in to see what this one said. This time, her shirt had a book on it that was being fingered oddly how I’d do it to a vagina and saidSpread My Pages and Call Me a Good Girl.
It was more provocative than anything she’d worn so far and I was actually fairly sure Mammon wouldn’t understand this one. I grinned, but I didn’t say anything because of how she was looking at the three of us. Next thing, I knew, she whipped her top off and flung it across the room. She was just standing there in a black sports bra.
“There. Now we’re all topless and distracted.”
Ugh. Now I was picturing her naked, and she was throwing off enough lust to give me a significant power boost. So was Celix and Kujo. Were we gonna fuck instead of fight? Because I was completely open to that and based on what I was feeling from everyone, they were too.
But would it help Kujo get a vision?
Kujo made a taunting gesture to Sydney.
