Chapter 27

CHAPTER

TWENTY-SEVEN

IZA

"So, how was it?" Mikayla asked, walking with me to The Lounge bar the next night.

My lips curled into a small smile, heat burning my cheeks. "It was good."

She nudged me. "Just good?"

"I can't explain my entire sex life to you!" I exclaimed. "It's private …"

And embarrassing because how could I tell her that after my curious ass had stepped through that portal to follow Acaros, he'd fucked me in the middle of the walkway and forced me to do my own little walk of shame back to his house?

Mikayla giggled. "Well, if you'd like to know, Jada and Sawyer are getting along nicely."

"Sawyer?"

After wrapping an arm around my shoulders, Mikayla turned me around and pointed halfway across the bar, where Jada sat with Professor Laufer. Was Sawyer his first name? Hadn't Acaros said it last night? Something about knowing what he felt like? What had that meant?

"They've been together, fucking, all night," Mikayla said. "I heard it through the walls."

I stifled a laugh. "I bet you had a blast, listening to her moan."

Mikayla rolled her eyes playfully. "Actually, I had someone over too."

"Is that so?" I giggled, asking the bartender for water and a Passion Delight for Acaros.

"Yep," she said, sliding onto the stool in front of us. "Two guys actually."

"Two? I don't believe it."

"Bazzon and Varoth."

"Are those Acaros's friends?"

"Yep."

Another laugh bubbled up in my chest. "Did they run a train on you or something?"

"Sorry, my sex life is private ," she said, throwing my words at me. "But yes."

"Mikayla, you can't say your sex life is private, then tell me about it." I grabbed my water from the bartender and sipped it. "Besides?—"

Before I could get another word out of my mouth, someone yanked the water right out of my hand and threw it in my face. I shouted and jerked back in surprise, droplets pouring down my cheeks and onto my white top.

"Hey!" Mikayla shouted. "Get away from her!"

Through the wetness dripping from my lashes, I grabbed a napkin on the countertop and dapped the water off my face until I could see clearly. Acaros had practically flown over here and had Qina by the throat.

"What's going on?" I asked.

"I don't know, but this ends tonight. I'm going to find out who keeps sending this fucking bitch to fuck with you," he growled. He looked at the bartender. "Open a portal. I'm bringing her to The Chains."

"Portal's open," the bartender said.

While I would've had major insecurities with him leaving with her any other time, I found myself wanting her to be locked up in some demon prison so she couldn't bother me anymore. After last night, when Acaros had shown me how much he wanted me …

When he had fucked me in front of everyone …

When I had promised myself to him forever …

When he had brought me home, cleaned me, then dirtied me up again …

God, I wanted him to stay mine forever.

Heat coursed through my body to my core, and I tightened, desperate to clench around him, for this drama to be over, for me to be the only woman on Acaros's mind, and that couldn't happen until I was safe … and away from her.

"Go. I'll be fine here with them." I nodded to Bazzon and Varoth at our table.

"I don't trust them with you."

My eyes widened. "Why not? I thought that they were, like, your best friends."

"They're Lust demons," Acaros said. "You should never trust a Lust demon."

I crossed my arms. "Does that mean I shouldn't trust you?"

"No," he hissed. "I mean, you shouldn't trust a Lust demon with your girl."

Warmth spread through my body at the sound of this incubus calling me his girl. Again.

"Don't want to ruin the lovely conversation," Dani said, approaching us from a table. She placed her Passion Delight down on the counter and looped her arm around mine. "I'll keep an eye on her while you're gone."

Acaros arched a brow at her. "Last time, I found you in a Lust Room with her."

"After you let her through the portal," Dani argued. "Plus, I was showing her the palace."

After gritting his teeth, Acaros seized my hips and pulled me closer. "Your ass had better be here when I get back or else I will come find you," he murmured against my lips. "And you won't like the consequences."

Once I nodded like a good girl —as if I would actually follow all his orders—Acaros grabbed the back of Qina's neck and shoved her through the portal. Before stepping in after her, he peered back at me one last time.

When he completely disappeared, Dani tugged me toward the portal still swirling in the room that some demons used to leave this world so they could go back to their own. "We're not staying here. There's someplace better in Lust. Wanna go?"

"Better than here?"

"Way better," Mikayla said, shuffling off her seat. "Bazzon brought me there last night."

I arched a brow. "You've been to Hell?"

"To Lust," Mikayla corrected.

My gaze drifted to Jada, who was entranced by Professor Laufer, giggling and drinking Passion Delight like I had never seen before. Her hands were all over him, and his were on her body, between her legs, and?—

Oh God.

Mikayla waved at them dismissively. "She'll be fine."

"I can see that," I hummed. "She's doing better than fine."

"So," Dani said, standing by the portal, "what do you say?"

"Will it make Acaros angry?" I asked.

"Probably." Dani giggled and looked over at her husband, or boyfriend … I didn't know what to call the man who always seemed to hang around her. He didn't talk much to anyone else. She pulled me closer. "But angry incubi always fuck harder."

From what I had experienced so far, she wasn't wrong. Every time that I pissed Acaros off, he fucked me until I could barely walk, promising that he would breed me over and over and over again. And I couldn't get enough.

So, I took Dani's hand and stepped into the portal.