While he played with my clit with one hand—teasing it in torturous circles—he pulled out his cock with the other, lifted one of my legs into the air, and pushed himself into me without hesitation. As soon as he filled me, my entire body shuddered in delight.
“You’re going to scream for me, Dani,” Eros said, staring down at me with black eyes. He pumped in and out of me as people walked through the path, not seeing us yet. “And when you do, you’re going to be as loud as you fucking can. Do you understand me?”
My core tightened even more on him, and I nodded, sucking my lip between my teeth and holding my breath as the pressure rose higher and higher in my core. It had barely been a few moments, but I was already about to tip over the edge.
I guess that’s what happened when I was already drunk off souls from tens of demons.
He stopped moving his fingers for a moment, the pressure subsiding slightly, then slapped his palm against the sensitive bud. I yelped out into his palm and grasped onto his shoulders, clawing at the muscle. Oh god, I was going to…
“Come for me, Dani.”
Throwing my head back, I reached behind me, grasping at the tree trunk, at the leaves, at the apples even, anything that I could to hold me steady because my entire body was trembling in pure ecstasy. Wave after wave of pleasure rolled through me, and I let out a scream that came from so deep inside me I almost didn’t recognize it as mine.
Eros continued to pump inside of me, filling me with more and more of his cum with every thrust. I clenched on his cock, wanting to suck the juices right out of it. He slowed down slightly, smirking against my neck and letting his teeth dip into my skin. “Heavens, Dani…”
Almost as quickly as they appeared, the feathery white clouds disappeared around us, and we were back in my office with his head buried in the crook of my neck. I took a deep breath, my chest rising and falling. “Where-where were we?”
Eros opened his hazy emerald eyes and pulled away, lips parted. “Heaven.”
“Why’d you bring me there, out of all places?”
“I didn’t,” he said. “You brought us there.”
3
After my personal Queen of Lust celebration in my office with Eros, we decided to head to Pride to check up on Trevon and to talk to the doctor about helping Dr. U. Yet while we walked to the portal, hand in hand, all I could think about was the weird power I must’ve just unlocked.
Now, not only was I able to bring Eros to places during sex and put thoughts into his mind, but I brought us to Heaven. Heaven: a place that I had never, ever been to before. How’d I know what it had looked like with those clouds, golden gates, and apple trees? Was there more to Heaven than just that? Would I ever really get a chance to make it there?
Guards opened the gates to the busy portal room, where demons hurried to depart from Lust as quickly as possible. When people saw me, they parted a path in fear and allowed Eros and me to go through the portal first. I curled my hand around Eros’s bicep and stepped into the black mist, expecting the wandering souls to claw at my legs and jagged teeth to pierce into my flesh like usual.
But even they stayed away from me, as if they knew about what happened too.
Approaching the exit for Pride, I glanced around at the hunting black eyes of demons watching me from the shadows. It felt unusual and uneasy to have even the darkest of souls be afraid of me. But when I stepped out of the portal and into Pride, they disappeared and coldness folded around me.
All the guards stepped away from me and toward the wall, holding their breath. Eros grabbed my hands and pulled me out of the portal room, leaving the black misty interior behind. Snow pounded down around us and melted almost immediately on the stone walkway, barely even leaving a bead of water in its wake. Bare trees rustled, their heavy branches scraping.
I made a beeline for the doctors’ offices and briefly glanced over at the ashy-gray skies hovering over the Chains. Guards dressed in heavy ice armor stood around the building, scouting for potential criminal demons helping their friends escape.
Eros stopped and pursed his lips together, staring at the large prison that I locked Kasey in last night. She had told the truth about Maeve, and I felt bad for throwing her in there, but part of me wanted her to rot for a bit longer because of everything that had happened these past few weeks. She had been a total bitch to me. And while she might’ve been honest, she ruined my party, she refused to talk to me, and even tried to tear me down.
My own best friend did that to me when I needed her the absolute most.
Maybe I was too hard on her, but I was Queen of Lust now. I couldn’t let Envies walk all over me anymore, especially not the one whose mother killed my father so she could become queen of a kingdom. I had to choose my friends sparingly now.
“Will you be okay talking to the doctor about Trevon and Dr. U yourself?” Eros asked me, awkwardly scratching the back of his head. Brown strands of hair blew into his tan face, snow melting against his forehead. “I need to talk to Kasey.”
“Are you going to let her out?” I asked.
“No, I just want to talk.”
After a moment of hesitation, I nodded. “You don’t have to ask if it’s okay. She’s your sister.”
When Eros paused, I gave him my best reassuring smile. Though Kasey and I weren’t on good terms, I wasn’t going to stop him from seeing her. From spending thousands of years in Hell, Eros was smart, wise, and understood how demons worked way more than I did. If he thought that talking to Kasey was a good idea, I wasn’t going to stop him. He always had my back.
Once I urged him toward the Chains, I continued on the path toward the doctors’ offices. I shielded my eyes from the blazing white sun reflecting against the snow and stared up at Lucifer’s castle perched less than a mile from the doctor’s, large ice-white clouds sitting somberly overhead.
Lucifer lounged on his balcony at least ten stories in the air with a glass of Vemon in his hand. He tilted his drink toward me, and I smiled back, Eros’s words from earlier still sound in my head. Sooner or later, I would need someone else and Eros wanted that someone to be Lucifer.
“Come to chat?” Lucifer shouted, the wind catching his voice.
“Later,” I called, disappearing around the building to the front.
A big blue sign that read Closed for the Ceremony in Lust hung on the doors. My stomach tightened, and I grabbed the handle anyway because I needed to see Trevon at least, but it was locked. I gnawed on the inside of my lip, found a side-door that hadn’t been chained closed, and weaseled my way into the office, knowing that they had to be in here.
There was no way Trevon was able to recover that quickly. It took him weeks to recover last time.
Yet the office and the halls were completely empty, all the lights turned off and the silence overwhelming. I hurried to the back office, where I left Trevon in the doctor’s care. Instead of barging in like I did last time, I knocked and waited patiently for him to answer it.
One moment passed. Then two. Then I started to fear the worst.
I banged again with the side of my fist, only left to be standing in front of a closed door for five more agonizing minutes. When nerves and frustration got the best of me, I kicked the door open and found the room vacant, just like the rest of the hospital.