Page 28 of Forgive Me Father For I Have Sinned…7 Times

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Miriam seemed surprised when I wrapped my arms around her from behind, spooning her. Her body was rigid at first, and she didn’t know where to put her hands, but I was able to coax her into relaxing and now, our bodies moulded together as one.

I wasn’t usually one to cuddle, but this felt amazing. So relaxing, and it came with a euphoric high of its own.

I now know why the other Sins were such a fan of cuddling after sex.

“Your skin isn’t green anymore,” Miriam whispered, trailing her fingertips over my arm.

“You’ve noticed that, huh?” I chuckled into her shoulder, nuzzling my face further into her even though we were already so close.

“I have.” Her hand trailed down to mine, and I didn’t resist when she entwined her fingers with mine, clasping our hands together. “Why does your skin turn green? Because you’re jealous?”

“Yes.”

“Are you able to control it?”

“No. I never have been,” I admitted. “I’ve tried to control it, but it’s never worked.”

“I don’t get how all this Cardinal Sin stuff works.”

“Cardinal Sin stuff?” I laughed. The warm flush that covered her cheeks was downright adorable, and I couldn’t resist pressing a kiss to her cheek. “Tell me what you don’t understand, and I’ll see what I can do to help make things clearer for you, baby doll.”

“Is it just you and the others up here?”

“Up here?”

“I don’t know where here is.”

“Yes, it’s just the seven of us up here,” I chuckled. “In terms of where this is exactly, it’s difficult to explain.” Especially to a human who doesn’t believe in God.

“You guys keep saying that.”

“That’s because it really is difficult to explain.”

“Try me.”

“We’re…above Earth,” I said, testing the waters.

Miriam was silent for a while, but I knew the moment she had figured it out. She glanced over her shoulder at me with wide eyes and lips parted in shock.

“We’re in Heaven?” She gasped.

I shook my head and held back a smirk. “Even higher than that.”

“What’s higher than Heaven?” Miriam asked, blinking rapidly.

“Where we are right now.”

Her lips tugged down at the corners. “I don’t understand.”

“I don’t understand it sometimes, as well. You’d think that the big man upstairs would put the Seven Deadly Sins closer to Hell, but apparently not,” I chuckled and pressed a kiss to her upper back.

“So, Heaven and Hell are real?”

“As real as you and I are, baby doll.”

“And God?”

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