Page 28 of Falling for Lucifer

“Thank you.” Ellodie smiled as she leaned into Lucifer. Whatever drink Hades had mixed for her was in full effect, and she knew tonight was about to be a time. “You’re on baby duty tonight.” She looked up at Lucifer with a lopsided grin.

He eyed her and then glanced down at the drink in her hand. As if a lightbulb went off, his eyes lit up in understanding. “Hades made you that?”

She nodded. “Yup.”

“Man.” He chuckled and took the glass from her hand. “You not finishing this. I’ll get you a normal drink. I got both you and Etta tonight.”

She beamed up at him before her father interrupted the moment. “I haven’t been properly introduced to your brother, Lu.”

“You don’t want to,” both Ellodie and Lucifer said at the same time. Ellodie burst out into a fit of giggles while Alandria and Daniel looked at them curiously.

“Go introduce them, baby. Then get me another drink,” Ellodie coaxed before standing on her tiptoes.

Lucifer sighed. She knew he hated introducing people to his brother, but he’d been doing it all his life. He’d survive.

“Cool, but don’t wander too far. I want to introduce you to my sister,” Lucifer said before pecking her temple and leading Daniel and Alandria away.

Ellodie took that moment to go over to Harley and her sister. Already, she found herself tired of introductions. It would be a long night indeed.

One thing about motorcycle clubs, they definitely knew how to party.

It was still in full swing, but Ellodie needed a moment to herself and to get some fresh air.

She stumbled toward the elevators without telling anyone where she was going, but she should have known better.

Lucifer caught up to her just as the elevator doors were about to close.

“Where you think you’re going?” he asked with a grin.

She drunkenly waved him off. “Where’s my baby?”

“Alandria still has her,” Lucifer replied.

Ellodie smiled. Yasmine was just as drunk as her and had given up her stake on holding Etta a couple of hours ago.

Alandria had stepped in, and Ellodie was leery at first, but that dissipated within a couple of minutes.

She was a pro with her daughter, and when Lucifer agreed, Ellodie knew she had nothing to worry about. “Where you going?”

Ellodie realized she never answered his question. Her lips turned up into a coy smile. “I just need some air, baby daddy.”

Lucifer stepped onto the elevator and bit his bottom lip before pressing a button and trapping Ellodie in the corner. “You know you make my dick hard when you call me that?”

She batted her lashes up at him innocently. “I had no idea.”

“Gimme a kiss,” he demanded, and who was she to not oblige.

They kissed hungrily until the elevator signaled their arrival to their floor. When she gathered her bearings, Lucifer was already guiding her off the elevator. She looked around with her brows pulled in. “Baby, I wanted some fresh air,” she whined.

“And you think your man don’t got you?” She clamped her mouth shut real quick because one thing she knew for sure was Lucifer always had her front, back, and sides.

He led her down a long hall before unlocking a door.

They stepped inside, and she gasped at the large windows overlooking the city. “This is my office. Come here.”

He tugged her forward gently, and before she knew it, they stepped out on a balcony where she was able to inhale fresh air. She shivered in delight and closed her eyes, swaying slightly.

“This is perfect.” She smiled up at the moon with her eyes still closed.

Lucifer sat down on the outdoor love seat he kept out there and pulled her down with him. Ellodie could feel his eyes on her, but she didn’t open her own. Not yet. She wanted to bask in the moment.

“You enjoying your birthday?” Lucifer asked after a few minutes.

Ellodie’s eyes popped open, and she smiled. “More than I thought I would, and it’s all thanks to you.”

He kissed her neck and nudged her so she would turn and straddle him. Once she was face to face with him, she nuzzled her nose to his while he spoke. “I love you, Ello. You know that?”

She pecked his lips as her heart swelled. “I know, daddy. I love you so much.”

“Enough to let me put a baby in you?”

She grinned and reached into the back pocket of her jean shorts for her phone. “Yup, but also this.”

She tapped on her phone for a second before showing it to Lucifer. She planned to wait and get the photo printed before presenting it to him, but this moment just felt right.

In the photo, Etta laid on a custom blanket Ellodie had made. She smiled up at the camera with her cute self, and beside her, the blanket read, Will you adopt me, daddy?

Lucifer looked at the photo and then at Ellodie. He repeated that a few times before his thumb and pointer finger pinched the bridge of his nose. He sniffled and dropped his hand. “You for real?”

She looked at him in amusement. “Of course, I am. You’re her father. You feed her and change her shitty diapers. She only calms down for you, and the way she looks at you is exactly how a daughter looks at her daddy. She’s yours and you are hers. I want you to adopt her. Please?”

“You really think you have to ask?” His voice cracked before his lips found hers. They kissed passionately before he pulled away and said, “Marry me.”

Ellodie’s head pulled back slightly as she blinked a few times. She was pretty drunk, so she wanted to make sure she heard him correctly. “Huh?”

He smoothed her hair back and grinned. “Marry me. I don’t have a ring, but we can get one tomorrow. Let’s get married, baby.”

“Are you serious?” she whispered, pressing her forehead into his. “You want me to be your wife?”

“I want you to be my everything. My wife, my best friend, my ride or die, the mother of my children. Say yes, love. That’s all I need to hear.”

Ellodie’s thoughts raced as she closed her eyes to steady her breathing.

She loved this man so much. He was her heaven on earth.

He was her savior. He was her backbone and her rib.

He had proven himself time and time again.

He was worthy of whatever he desired. She would follow him to the ends of the galaxy.

Nothing could keep them apart, so the answer was clear as day.

As she opened her eyes and let them settle on his, peace radiated from her as a smile formed on her lips. “On one condition.”

“Anything.”

“Ask me again tomorrow, in case I forget this.” She laughed because she knew she really was that drunk, but soberness wouldn’t change her response. In any condition she was in, the answer would remain the same.

He chuckled. “I’ll ask you every day for the rest of our lives, even after we’re married, if the answer is yes.”

She beamed as she cupped his cheeks. “Yes, Lu. I’ll marry you.”

The kiss that followed was one that Ellodie wished could last a lifetime.