Page 58 of Summoning Sex Demons

The door behind us slammed open, and Acaros peered into the room. “What’s positive?”

While I tried to peel the stick away from Mikayla before he could see it, it fell out of her grasp and right at the feet of Acaros. He peered down at it quizzically, as if he had never seen a pregnancy test before, and picked it up.

Heart pounding inside my chest, I fiddled with my fingers behind my back and shuffled in front of Acaros. I knew he would be thrilled, but I was still so nervous because … I’d never thought that this would happen so soon.

Not only so soon since I’d met him, but so soon in my life.

Acaros’s confused expression softened, and he looked down at me. “Is this …”

“Yes!” Mikayla screeched.

Jada elbowed her hard in the ribs, then grabbed her hand and yanked her out the front door to give us some privacy. “Come on.”

When the door closed, I swallowed hard and walked closer to him, grabbing his hands. “I’m scared,” I whispered. I didn’t evenknow what kind of human-demon hybrid would come out of my vagina in nine months. “I didn’t think it would happen so soon. What about Dani?”

Acaros set the test down on the arm of the couch, then cupped my face with his hands. He drew the pads of his thumbs across my cheekbones, a small smile crossing his face. “Hellcat, I’m so fucking excited.”

I slapped him across his chest, making him let out a low chuckle. “Acaros!”

“I’ll still train you to become stronger,” he murmured, drawing my face closer to his. “And after you give birth in a few months, if you still want to work with Dani … then I won’t stop you. I’ll be a—what do you call it on Earth? A stay-at-home dad.”

“A few months?!” I exclaimed. “What do you mean, a few months?”

“Demons are only typically pregnant for a few months.”

I arched a brow. “So, you’re telling me that I don’t have nine months to prepare?!”

“Nine months? What the fuck? That’s such a long time.”

After crossing my arms over my chest, I stared up at him, trying to look menacing that he had put this demon baby inside me and that I only had a few months to prepare to bring another life into this world, but honestly … the thought of Acaros becoming even softer with it did something to me.

Imagining him being a stay-at-home dad?! Butterflies filled my chest.

I mean, that couldn’t be so bad, could it?

Maybe this whole thing would work out just the way it was supposed to in the end.

CHAPTER

THIRTY-TWO

IZA

Four weeksand a very pregnant belly later, I stepped through the portal into an unfamiliar icy kingdom. Usually, Acaros didn’t let me go anywhere alone, but while he was out, I had snuck away to have a chat with Qina and to find Clayton.

My breath mingled with the frigid air, creating a cloud of white in front of my face. I made some excuse to the guards standing at attention in the portal room and found my way onto the stone walkways.

The chill seeped into my bones, and yet the power within me began to stir. Even with all the training Acaros had put me through the past few weeks, I hadn’t been able to control it, at least not to the extent that I needed to control it for Dani.

Though … I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be part of this war.

I thought it would take hours to find the prison in the Kingdom of Pride that Dani had mentioned Clayton and Qina were in, but it only took about twenty minutes of waddling like a penguin. A towering and heavily guarded building lay ahead, its iron gates covered in ice.

The guards stationed at the entrance peered at me with narrowed eyes, their expressions cold and indifferent. Cradling my belly bump and trying to look like a helpless woman, I walked up to them and gave a small smile.

“What business do you have here?” one guard asked, tone strong.

“I’m here to release prisoners of Lust.”

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