Page 101 of Devil Bound

“The term is demigod, and yes.”

“That can’t be right.”It wasn’t.I knew it wasn’t.

Tiamat put her coffee cup down.“I am the Dragon Mother, boy.I have been around for longer than most, and I know the blood of those who walked the paths to the underworld and back.Why your mother found it necessary to let you grow up thinking you were merely human-born, I do not know.But you aren’t.”

I drank my own coffee.My head was pounding.Tiamat graciously refilled my cup.

She had to be wrong.Or maybe she was just saying these things because it made sense with the way I’d been able to pull…somethingfrom Mitch.The way I saw it, it had probably been the wards he’d used.They had to have reversed my magic somehow.I’d always been more intuitive in the way I used magic than other people, so that made sense.It made a whole lot more sense than me being some divine offspring parked in an orphanage for no apparent reason.

“If you say so,” I told the Dragon Mother.My head was spinning, and she had to be wrong.I didn’t think she was going to admit she was wrong, though.

“Mmm.I do see what Lucy means, but no matter.Eat your cake and watch him mow the lawn.I got some plants for him to set into the beds later, and maybe I’ll get him started on painting the door and window frames.”

“I heard that, and penance is not slavery, Dragon Mother,” Lucifer called.The sunlight rippled over his alabaster chest, and I wondered if he could get sunburn.His kitty-cat hair looked wild and glossy in the light.

Tiamat leaned toward me.“Stretching the chores out over time means we get to watch him work more frequently.Would you like that?”

The lawnmower was shut off, and before I knew it, Lucifer stood at my side, his head blocking the sun above and casting a shadow over me.His hair was a halo, and I looked up into his blue eyes.

“Do not conspire with my boyfriend.Nelly is still recovering.”

Lucy bent down to kiss me senseless, invading my mouth when I accidentally gasped and gave him access.

“I definitely want to see more ofthis,” I heard Tiamat say as I drank Lucifer’s breath, as he savored mine.

I had to forget about so many things: how Tiamat thought I was a half god, how Lucifer had decided he was my boyfriend, how I felt every time he touched me.How painfully good it was when he fucked me.But all of those things I needed to forget weren’t enough to make me pull away from Lucifer, at least not right at that moment.

And maybe, just maybe, the moment could last a little longer still.Lucy drove me crazy half the time, but when we kissed like this, he wasn’t so bad.

No, he was the Devil, and he wasn’t so bad at all.