Page 33 of Bound By Lust (Sinful Seven #2)

club illicit

Frank

I hate this place. I pull up to the shack and see the little girl sitting with the sign from last time, though this time she’s holding a sword. I glare, exiting the car, and when she sees me, she stands and immediately bows.

“G-good evening, M-Milord… please let me call for the boss,” she stammers, but I shake my head, take the handle of the door, and open it.

“I got it.” I try to go inside, and she squeaks…

“W-wait… wh-what if you get lost?” She chews her lip.

“I got it,” I voice again and she bows, nodding vigorously as I enter the creepy ass club, this time giving me no issue.

The space is just as it was the last time I entered… no light, even when the door is wide open, there is only blackness. The further I walk inside, the more out of whack my body feels…

It’s as if I’m walking down stairs through a maze and the ground is sometimes flat… sometimes uneven, and sometimes like I’m walking on rocks or pebbles. It’s very fucking disjointing, but I still coolly make my way through, somehow sensing I’ll get to where I’m going no matter what…

Soon I come to see a light like that looks as if it’s miles and miles and miles away, but the more I walk, it gets closer at an alarming rate. Not only that, but bone-chilling and rhythmic music plays in my ears, almost as if trying to hypnotize me.

But I swat that shit away and finally step through a door, and it’s as if my body that was wound tight relaxes and my brain clears. I didn’t even know I was feeling anything other than good… until I step through the door and realize the entire time I was walking I felt like complete and utter shit…

I also realize the haunting music I was hearing was coming from here and that the deep bass of whatever the fuck instruments are playing is so loud it rattles my ribs with every beat.

The décor is the same blood red velvet-draped curtains with solid gold ropes to show the wealth and status of the club, along with the admittedly stunning art, but I walk past all of that through the black-glass doors of Club Illicit, where three doors greet you.

Sinners

Saints

Staff

My skin prickles with power when I turn to the Sinners door on the left. We didn’t visit that side when we came before, but I can feel the lust radiating from that room in droves. It’s an intoxicating pull that almost gets me, but I shake it off…

I’m not here for that. I need to quit this club, even though I haven’t even started.

I walk through the Staff door right in the middle and I curl my lip in disgust when I see that blind mother fucking bat buttoning up his shirt.

“Oh! I didn’t think you would come?!” he exclaims, turning his head to me, and no matter how I slice it, this mother fucker is creepy. How the fuck can he see me?

“I came to quit,” I mutter, and he raises a brow.

“Ah… I guess that makes sense… since you have a wife and all,” he spits, and I puff out my chest.

“Jealous?”

“Yes…” He cocks his head to the side, staring at me… if a blind person could stare…

“Well, you should be because my wife is perfect…” I boast.

“I am ashamed to know our father would give you a partner before me… I really must have fallen from his good graces.” He covers his face and I scrunch my face.

“The fuck you talking about? My dad didn’t hook me up with Jessica…” I correct him, and he turns his face to me with a sigh.

“You really don’t know anything, huh? Even though I can tell you’ve finally manifested and you smell like you’re about to combust,” the blind bastard hums, strumming his fingers, watching me.

“Are you getting enough miasma… or maybe you’ve just sinned greatly?

” he asks and we stay there watching each other when I realize this mother fucker knows something about me.

“What do you know…?”

“More than you, obviously.”

“Do you want to die?” I snarl and he chuckles…

“You can’t kill me… just like I can’t kill you. All we can do is hate each other and fight as we have done for millennia.”

“Hmm… you’re saying the same shit my parents said,” I ponder and he goes still.

“You still have parents?” His mouth pops open, genuinely surprised, and I side eye him.

“Yes,” I answer and his head falls.

“I… see… I really have been forsaken,” he mutters and I want to say more, but in that moment, Venom walks in and his brow raises when he sees me.

“Oh! Did you get through the gate all on your own?” he asks and I turn to him, nodding.

“It’s just walking…”

“Just walking? No one just walks through a broken portal and through a veil split between worlds,” he smiles and I narrow my eyes. I can sense it… that prickly feeling in my body. Without my consent, my eyes do that thing they did when I was at the hotel where I can see past someone’s body…

I grimace and I see that Venom has a dark red and black aura.

I can tell he’s got power… but it’s when I turn my head to the blind bastard that I have to squint and close my eyes because it’s blinding.

The only time I’ve seen a light so blindingly bright was my wife’s friend who came to the door, but even her light wasn’t this bright…

this is pure and I’m fucking repulsed by it.

“You’ll blind yourself if you stare into me like that… you really should learn more about your anatomy, or you’re going to kill, even though you don’t intend to,” he mutters, walking past me.

“Anyway, I’m going to work.” He shoves out, blindfold still on, and Venom shakes his head.

“Michael is always so grumpy...”

“Fuck all that. What the hell is going on? What is this place really… what are you and him?”

“It’s really surprising to see a demon king not know his origins… I’ve only ever met your alters and they were… hm… well let’s just say they weren’t as pleasant as you.”

“My alters…?”

“Yes… you, me, and other beings… we all occasionally reincarnate into different worlds when major events are set to take place. While I wasn’t reincarnated into this world, I frequent here because compared to my drab earth, this one is much more.

.. robust with life. I’m sure that’s why you and the other sins chose to reincarnate here… ”

I’ve always considered myself to be a genius… maybe not as smart as Pierce or Saint, but definitely top three of the bunch, but the shit he’s saying is going right over my head, though I guess it would, but it’s no more difficult to understand than turning into a fucking demon…

“Okay, so I’m the Demon King of Lust, right…?”

“Indeed you are, Lord Legend.”

“So again… who the fuck are you and that that shiny, blind bastard?”

“I am Venom, the Serpent who wraps around the world… in Christianity I am also known as the Serpent who enticed Eve,” he smirks, licking his lips. “To nibble upon the apple,” he states and I narrow my eyes at him, hating him already.

“So you’re the mother fucker that has my Little Baby going through periods! Don’t you fucking know I can’t get pussy when she’s bleeding because she’s cramping! You should drop dead here and now,” I spit out, disgusted, and his eyes go wide, blinking before he throws his head back laughing.

“Wow… you truly are different from your past reincarnations. They would never care about a woman’s menstruation.”

“Let me correct you. I don’t give a fuck about a woman’s nothing. I said my wife… those other bitches can cramp to death for all I give a fuck,” I shrug and he raises a brow.

“A sole woman for lust… interesting…”

He’s right… it is rather interesting that Jessica fills me up in ways other women never could, no matter how much I fucked them.

“Anyway, what about that blind bastard…?”

“That… well… he’s Michel the Archangel… he’s struggling a bit because he’s here to look for his brother Uriel, who caused a fuss not long ago.” I go still at his words.

“Wait… archangel?”

“Yes…”

“As in…?” I discreetly point up and he nods, making me frown.

“So let me get this straight… I’m the Demon King of all things Lust.”

“Correct.”

“You’re the serpent that made periods happen…”

“Somewhat correct…”

“And that blind bat is the great commander and the big man upstairs’ favorite archangel, Michael…”

“It would seem so…”

“And we’re all just walking around on earth all willy-nilly?”

“Hmm… I wouldn’t say willy-nilly. There are restrictions in place to prevent the world’s destruction for now… but…” he looks me up and down curiously. “I see that those restrictions are quickly tumbling down, so I guess it’s a good thing I’m starting my newest endeavor before hard times strike.”

“New endeavor as is Illicit?”

“Correct… a world like this one, where miasma is low, is a perfect place to create a nice and safe feeding ground…” he smiles while my brain is moving a billion miles a millisecond.

I knew there was something odd about this place… but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but now…

“Who are the clients here?”

“The clientele? Well, now that you’ve manifested, let’s go take a look with your eyes wide open…” he tells me as we exit the Staff door I came in through, and we venture into the Sinners’ side, and from the moment I enter, all movement stops, and everyone stares…

My body hums and my dick throbs, leaking pre nut. This place is riddled with lust and desire… I feel my body thumping as if my entire being is a heart.

“Ooooo, your presence alone is drawing attention as I knew it would,” Venom states, and I feel dazed as my eyes flicker looking around and I’m almost shocked to see creatures who just a second ago looked like humans, now turned to predators slicked in blood, sex, and desire.

The girl dancing in the cage above the bar?

Her eyes are completely black and her mouth is full of huge sharp teeth with a long tongue that slithers out of her wide mouth.

I grit my teeth, and my lungs burn as if the air is laced with acid. The lights flare and shadows shift. Something wild and hungry brushes against my soul, gnawing me from the inside, and a burst of energy release from me, thick and red. Suddenly, the person nearest me drops to the floor moaning.