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He growled.“I’ll get her meat,” he said again and stood.

“Remember what happened last time you left?”Inexplicably, two years ago he’d sensed her from down here, and he’d busted out of his old cell, somehow found a gateway out of Hell, and gone straight to her.He’d terrified her so badly there was no way she’d ever accept him.Kurgan wasn’t capable of that kind of relationship, of any kind of relationship.

He’d freaked that female out so badly she barely left her house now, and if I hadn’t gotten to her in time, she’d be dead.I had no choice but to try to make him understand.“You’ll hurt her, son.”

“No.”He shook his head again, his chest and shoulders rolling as the beast pushed forward.

I knew exactly how he felt in this, didn’t I?

Kurgan wasn’t the right male for Lenny, just like I wasn’t the right male for Sutton.

Kurgan didn’t know how to control the beast, and if he escaped again, when the bloodlust finally cleared and Lenny was torn to pieces at his feet, he’d be left with the knowledge that he’d destroyed the only thing he’d ever cared about.

Kurgan exploded into his hound, snarling and growling, pawing at the floor and yanking at his chains to get free.To get to Lenny.

I wouldn’t let that happen.I would not let him suffer that pain.

No fucking way.

Lucifer answered the door when I knocked.He was wearing jeans, but they weren’t done up.Music was blaring from another room, and he was holding a beer.“Jag, my man, what can I do you for?”

I followed him into his quarters and was hit with the scent of sex.A female poked her head around the door on the other side of the room.“Are you coming back?”

“Entertain yourselves for a while, I have a guest,” he said without looking at her.

None of his handmaids were here, they would have answered the door if they were, but then, they tended to make themselves scarce when Lucifer was in the mood to fuck.They’d be close, though.His warriors were never far from him.

Lucifer sat on the couch and lifted his drink.“Want one?”

I shook my head.

“I have a roomful back there if you want to join in?”

“I’m good, thanks.”

He shrugged.“Your loss.So not a social call, then?”

“No.”I had to ask.Something was wrong.I was starting to feel again, and I needed to know why.“When I lost my pup, and you took my emotions from me, I asked you for something else.”

Lucifer stilled—it was slight, but I didn’t miss it.

His yellow eyes locked on mine.“I asked you to make it so I never found a mate, and you agreed.”

“I did,” Lucifer said.

I breathed out a rough breath.“Okay, then why am I starting to feel again?”

He placed his beer on the table beside him.“I think you know.”

I frowned.“No, I don’t.”

“You have a theory, that’s why you’re here.”Mini, his cat, slinked over and curled into his lap.Lucifer ran his hand down her back.“And fyi, that theory is correct.”

I shot to my feet, a growl rumbling from me.“You just said it wasn’t possible.”

“No, Jag, I confirmed that back then, when you were all fucked up in the head, I agreed to your request.”

“Same thing.”