Page 54 of Sinless Demons

“Actually,” Waltry says with a hesitant tone lacing that one promising word. Make or break it, Walt. Do it. Do it now! “I think in light of the king’s recent absentmindedness; we should reschedule today’s meeting until after he’s advised us further.”

Fuck!

Come on, Walt! You were supposed to be on my side.

You saw what happened to Grandmother Hyval, and the slow downward spiral her life took! And you’re willing to do it again?

I swallow hard but never drop my smile as I release the paper so hard, it flits out of Johnn’s fucking hand.

“Of course,” I smooth my dress and sweetly look from one man to the next before saying what my father always did. “You’re dismissed, gentlemen.”

Old Stick Up His Ass does not like that.

He’s not going to enjoy what I have planned next.

Not one bit.

18

A Favor

Damien

“Do you think the game she’s playing is dangerous for her?” I ask Zaviar as we trail quietly behind the Princess, who smiles at everyone she passes.

It’s like she’s an entirely different person right now.

“Everything in Aries’s life is dangerous for her.” Zaviar gives a maid a curled lip glare as he passes, and she scurries even faster down the corridor.

“Do you have to look like that?” My eyes roll as a heavy sigh shoves from my lungs.

Everyone’s exhausting today.

“Like what?” My brother has the audacity to ask with that same eat-shit-and-die look on his face.

“Never mind.”

“Let him pout,” Krave says, as his arm brushes my side. A tingling sensation races across my skin at the simple feel of his arm against mine.

I blink the distracting thoughts away and focus on the woman ahead of me.

We all do. Ryke’s the only one not concerned with wherever the hell we’re going now.

In fact—

The demon cuts in front of Aries and sweeps open the left-hand door for her. Aries smiles up at him as she slips inside.

Then he, too, strides in like he’s been here his whole life.

“Ryke! I missed—where have you been?” The young blonde girl, Pen, asks, her cheeks tinting a strange color of pink when she looks at Ryke with stars in her eyes.

Seriously, what is with everyone today?

“Uncle Gravier has been asking about Ari,” the girl keeps rambling. On and on about how we’ve all missed events here and there, and the king’s made excuses all over.

And still Aries just stares at her with that deranged smile on her face.

Until the girl shuts the fuck up about the king.