Page 77 of Devilish

From here on out, I would be Kai Daniels, survivor.

I refused to be a victim any longer.

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LUCIEN

ICHECKED THE time on my phone and then looked over at where Kai slept peacefully in the bed beside me. It was the middle of the night, but I hadn’t gone to bed yet, not when I was expected to be at a monthly meeting that one of my brothers, Alessio, required we all attend.

Brushing Kai’s hair from his forehead, I pressed a light kiss there and took a minute to look at him. He was so beautiful he was almost angelic, and I wanted nothing more than to scoop him up and hold him close.

Before doing all the dirty things he begged me to.

It felt wrong any time I had to leave him, and tonight was no exception. Even with the security team guarding the place, I hated having to leave.

But I would. Because the bitching from Alessio if I didn’t was not something I cared to experience.

I slipped out of bed and changed out of my robe into something more fitting for where I was going—one of my best suits, shoes polished to a spit shine, and I even added the rosary my mother had given me when I turned eighteen.

“You have to work?” came a voice thick with sleep, and I turned around to see Kai squinting at me.

“No work tonight, beautiful,” I said, sitting on the edge of the mattress as I added a pair of vintage cuff links to my sleeves.

“Oh. Hot date?” He gave a teasing half-smile and batted my hand away so he could take over putting on my cuff links.

“Yeah, with a priest.”

Kai began to laugh, and I couldn’t blame him because it sounded ridiculous even to my ears, but when I didn’t join in, he raised a brow.

“Wait, you’re serious?”

“I don’t seem like the type to go to church?”

“Um. Maybe if church is a euphemism for showing someone heaven, though I’d really hope that someone is me.”

I growled and caged him in, stealing a kiss from those pouty lips. “Give me two hours and I’ll do just that.”

“But first…church?”

“Mhmm. Confess our sins and get a clean slate until next month.”

He eyed the rosary. “I didn’t realize you were religious.”

“I’m not. None of us are, but Alessio is, and since it helps him sleep at night, we all agreed to go.”

“You and your brothers? Does that include King? Even Theo?”

“Everyone who’s currently stateside, yes. I think Theo got back last night.”

“Huh.” Kai sat back on his hands, and I could practically see the wheels turning in his head. “So do you feel like it helps?”

“I figure it can’t hurt.”

“But...what do you actually talk about? It’s not like you can talk about sex club stuff with a priest.”

“Why not?”

Kai’s mouth fell open.

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