Just when loving the Devil started to look easy, Lionel will have to learn that true love never is.
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Blurb:
Lionel and Lucifer are drawn deeper into a murder case, but they are set on solving it together.
Just
when Lionel’s love life has gone back to normal — normal meaning the
kinky Devil making his ownership known — Lionel’s murder case gets
stranger. Lionel’s birth father seems to have his hands in the mystery,
and Lionel finds himself in the sights of Eris, goddess of discord.
Lucifer
used to be a prime example of a powerful underworld deity with all the
knowledge and skill to take care of a lover in the bedroom. But that was
before Lucifer fell properly in love and won over his necromantic
boyfriend, who also happens to be a demigod. Lionel’s innate magic,
magical skill, and stubborn nature make it exceedingly difficult for
Lucifer to be the alpha god he wants to be for Lionel.
Lucifer
is set on finding a way to provide for the man he loves and to fulfill
Lionel’s every desire. But before he can focus entirely on his
necromancer, the two of them must solve the case, prevent primordial
deities from being raised and destroying the world, and learn to
communicate better. It’s what relationships and crime solving are all
about.
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EXCERPT:
The Devil’s Lover (Hellbound 5)
Alexa Piper
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Copyright ©2022 Alexa Piper
Lionel
The
Devil’s body in front of mine, protecting me from a threat I didn’t
quite understand, that was a new and uncomfortable feeling, and
something I didn’t really care for. I tried getting a decent look at the
deity that had teleported into Lucifer’s doorless office, but the Devil
his own damn self kept pushing me back. It was so annoying when he was
trying to be an alpha god.
“Will you cut it out,
Beelzebug?” I grumbled, and Trony, in her pink tartan skirt and with her
sword in hand, gave me an admiring look.
Nyx, the deity
that had Lucifer so riled, chuckled and turned their milky, unseeing
eyes on me. “You are a fierce one. Tiamat has said as much.”
And
speak of the dragon mother, she appeared in the office as well, which
was fine, apart from the fact that she wasn’t wearing any clothes.
Awesome.
“What is going on here? Nyx, do you have to
scare the children?” the dragon mother said and crossed her arms under
her breasts. Not that I was paying any attention to her breasts, but it
was sort of hard not to notice they existed. Why did all gods have
trouble with clothing? Buttons and zippers really weren’t all that bad.
“Children?”
Lucifer said and straightened before pulling me to his side and
circling my waist with his arm in a proud look, this is my boyfriend
kind of way. Apparently in his mind, the presence of the dragon mother
lessened the threat level in his office.
“No one in this room was scared,” Metatron said and flashed her sword.
“What
were you saying about Eris?” I asked the blind god… then realized
looking at them wouldn’t be enough to cue them in on the fact I was
speaking with them. “I mean, Nyx. You were saying about Eris?”
The sightless god turned to face me. “Eager as any human, aren’t you?” They smiled. “Or as the Devil dispensing deals.”
Tiamat
clapped her hands. “If you have something to say about Eris, I am
interested. I don’t appreciate her harassing poor, lovesick humans
around the corner, but I think we can talk while also eating, can’t we?”
Metatron nodded. “I second that. The necromancer has
been turning his nose up at my food since his return from Scotland, and
he looks worse for wear.”
“I haven’t!” I said. “And I don’t! It’s just been a busy few days, and there were corpses.”
“Humans
are quite frail and need regular nourishment, even those who are only
partially so,” Nyx said, and they and the dragon mother nodded
knowingly.
Lucifer glowered at the other god. “I know
best what my boyfriend needs,” he said, but I could tell I was in for
eating my breakfast out of the Devil’s hands while sitting in his lap.
* * *
Lucifer
was indeed behaving like a total alpha god, and it reminded me that I
should call Persephone and give her an update, but that would mean
looking at my phone and seeing whatever social media was now making of
the sharkomancer incident. Maybe I should still tell her about the
minotaur… but what would I even tell her about that? It was confusing,
the way I felt or should feel about Minos, and I was actually glad to be
dealing with something else right about now.
The dragon
mother, Nyx, and Lucifer and I teleported to the already set dining room
table, and I tried to grab a chair, but Lucifer wouldn’t let me go. He
pulled me close and tilted my chin up.
“How about I take
you to Sephy’s and Hades’ place? It’s almost the weekend anyway, and you
trained Marc Deacon well. I am sure he can handle things here while you
relax a little,” Lucifer said. He was doing his best at looking
charming, dashing, someone you didn’t want to say no to. His kitty-cat
hair was catching the light just so.
In one word, he was a
transparent, overprotective alpha god, and he was trying to lull me
into damseling myself, or whatever you’d call it. “You are not benching
me,” I said. “I will raise the minotaur, even if it’s –” If it was
what? A way for me to get back at him? To make sure he was very and
truly dead? I shook my head. “I’ll raise him. I can do my fucking job,
whether you believe that or not, Beelzebug.”
Lucifer’s face soured, but then he kissed my forehead. “I know you can, my love, but you don’t have to.”
“What
are you saying about raising the minotaur?” Tiamat said. She had put on
a bathrobe, just a thin one that hugged her every curve and still
revealed a lot, but it was better than nothing. Which was the
alternative.
Lucifer hugged me close. “He was apparently
murdered in his cell at the human prison not too long ago. Christine
just called with the news.”
“The minotaur,” Nyx said, and
I wiggled out of Lucifer’s hold and even managed to sit in my own chair
instead of the Devil’s lap. My goals had shifted over the past few
months, and today, this was an achievement, and I knew it. “He was a
powerful human sorcerer,” the blind god went on.
They used their
cane to find a chair opposite the dragon mother. Lucifer moved his chair
at the head of the table to the left, toward my own, until he was
sitting right next to me.
“You knew him?” I asked. “How did you know the minotaur?”