Page 72 of Crimson Soul
TWENTY-NINE
Kai
Our woman was strong, and I admired the hell out of her. After everything she’d been through, she was still the same cute hybrid with a healthy dose of sass. We left Aziel and Titan in Heaven to notify the queens, and we returned to Hell with Lilith.
Being in her room for the first time since she was taken was bittersweet. I was bloody chuffed she was home, but it took us too long to find her, and we were almost too late. My chest swelled at the fact that she was home.
Swallowing hard, I glanced back at Lilith who laid in the middle of the ginormous bed sprawled out snoring. When we got back, the first thing she did was crawl into bed. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she was out. She’d been sleeping for at least a couple of hours.
“She’s a sight to behold, huh mate?” Thaddeus asked, tilting his head toward her.
Blaise nodded, licking his bottom lip. “It’s taking every ounce of self control I have not to slide into bed with her.”
“Don’t do that,” I scolded. “She needs her rest. Who knows what happened while she was gone.”
His nostrils flared as he looked back at her. “Bloody kills me, but you’re right.”
“When she wakes up, she’s fair game,” Thaddeus stated. “I spent too long fighting my feelings for her. I’ll never make that mistake again.”
Aziel and Titan appeared in the room with a burst of black flames.
“What’d we miss?” Aziel asked, frowning as he noticed Lilith sleeping.
“Not much. Lilith was exhausted.” Thaddeus shrugged.
My gaze traveled to Lilith. We were all staring at her, listening to her snores.
“We alerted the queens of what had happened,” Titan said. “They’re pissed at Astral, and they want her locked up in the heart of Hell indefinitely.”
“They don’t seem to be Astral fans,” Aziel said as he strolled over toward the bed and sat beside her. With the prompting of our glares, he threw his hands up. “I don’t give a fuck what you say, I won’t wake her up, but I’m staying next to her.”
I nodded. “I get it, mate. We all need to be near her.”
“Just don’t wake her,” Thaddeus grumbled.
Blaise grunted, crossing his arms.
“Did Lilith mention what she was going to do about Zelek and Astral?” Titan asked.
I shook my head, not moving my gaze from the steady rise and fall of her chest. “No. She didn’t say much of anything. Now that she’s safe, I think her exhaustion really set in.”
“Did the queens mention anything about Gabriel?” Blaise asked.
“No, they asked what happened to him but that’s it,” Titan said.
“What the fuck are we going to do about Mystia?” Aziel asked in a low tone, careful not to wake her up.
Damn blood witch.
“We’re going to obliterate her before she can concoct another bloody plan,” Blaise said, walking closer to the bed and sitting on the other side of Lilith. “We can’t let her hurt Lilith again.”
“We won’t,” I said, my throat tight.
All of us ended up making our way toward the bed and sitting on it. Even Titan sat on the edge of the bed, and Aziel didn’t say a thing about it. A calmness I didn’t have a bloody thing to do with settled over us, and none of us took our eyes off the sleeping woman so at ease in our presence.
I couldn’t remember how long we stayed like that until Priamos and Baylor came into the room with their eyes twinkling.
“Mother is back?” Baylor asked with a smile on his face.
