Page 56 of Summoning Sex Demons

“You heard me tell Iza to stay at The Lounge,” I growled. “And you brought herhere?!”

“I needed to make sure.”

“Make sure of what?!”

Dani pursed her lips together. “That she was the one.”

Iza trembled in fear beside me, her body shivering in panic. I tucked her into the crook of my arm and held her even tighter in an attempt to calm her down while I took care of Dani, the queen of Lust and apparently now an enemy.

“What the fuck are you talking about?” I snarled.

“Do you know Beliel’s Prophecy?” Dani asked me.

“Three demons will rise from the ashes—the Devil, the Beast, the False Prophet. God will call them the Triad of Sinners; we will call them the Unholy Trinity. Under them, Hell will rule the Earth, and heaven will fall to ruin,” I repeated from memory.

As demon boys and girls, we had been forced to memorize the prophecy, had been told that it would be fulfilled soon. Butsoonin demon years could be hundreds or thousands of years from now.

What did that have to do with this?

“What you learned, what Eros learned, and what your friends learned wasn’t the entirety of the prophecy. Pieces of it had been sheltered away, hidden within each of the seven kingdoms. And we found another piece two months ago, just days after the war began.”

“Where did you find it?”

“The Kingdom of Wrath.”

“And what’d it say?”

“Written on the walls of the Tartarus Caves, it reads:Twenty-three years before the war begins, a human will be born who possesses the same image of who angels call Mother—hair set in pretty coils, dark skin that glows in the sunset, and innocentbrown eyes so everyone thinks she can do no harm. And with her, my power will lie.”

Eyes widening slightly, I shifted my gaze to Iza. “Godlooks like Iza?”

“Yes,” Dani said. “I’ve spoken with her.”

“And you think that Iza has Beliel’s powers?”

“I’ve thought that since I met her.” Dani gestured for us to walk to the lava pits that demons had to trek through to even get here. “If she didn’t, there isn’t a way that she would survive multiple nights with any Lust demon. Especially you.”

“Why didn’t you tell me this sooner?” I asked, picking Iza up and following Dani.

“Because”—she smiled softly—“I haven’t known you for long, but it was the first time I had seen you so happy. I wasn’t going to ruin that before I knew if Iza certainly possessed the powers of Beliel. Besides, Eros told me not to get involved.”

Iza stirred in my arms, still shaking.

After turning her attention to Iza, she nodded. “So, will you join us?”

“No,” I said.

“I’m not asking you,” Dani said to me. “I’m asking Iza.”

I growled. “I don’t care who you’re asking.”

“Iza is perfectly capable of making her own decisions.”

“Decisions about a war that she knows nothing about? Decisions based on her power that she just realized today—that she also knows little about?” I pulled her tighter. “She’s not making any hasty decisions based on a prophecy that we don’t even know to be true.”

“The prophecy is true,” Dani said. “Ask any of the commanders. And the war is here.”

“She doesn’t—” I started, only for Dani to interrupt me.

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