Page 29 of How to Accidentally Become the Devil

“What’s that smile for,Amica Mea?” Belz murmurs in my ear.

I simply smile bigger in response and cut my pancake.

He drops his fork and gapes at me. “You figured out how toblockus,” he accuses.

Heads snap up as the others tune into our conversation.

“What’s going on? And why can’t I hear her thoughts anymore?” Zeph asks with a furrowed brow.

“She’s completely blocked us out. We can’t hear her and she can’t hear us,” Belz says, as if he wasn’t the first to block everyone out.

Absolutely unrepentant, I shrug with a smug smirk as I continue to eat. “It’s blissfully quiet now. Are you jealous?”

“Yes! I knew my brother was incapable of shutting up, but I never realized the amount of nonsense he keeps to himself is ten times what actually comes out of his mouth,” Zar says.

“He’s not the only one with outrageous thoughts,” I chuckle as I eye Oz.

“Really, Princess? It’s like that?” He arches a brow. “That’s five on the spank count now,” he holds up his hand wiggling his fingers to make his point clear.

Oooh. I didn’t realize he was keeping track. That’ll be fun once we actually have time for fun.

“Promises. Promises,” I pout.

“Trust me, Princess, as soon as we fix Luc, your ass is mine.”

“I get to watch, right?” Zeph perks up at the idea.

“If you’re good,” Oz purrs.

“Well, shit, Angel, let’s go! Now wehave tofix Luc,” Zeph exclaims, rising from his seat.

“Oh? Because there wasn’t any motivation before?”

“No motivation could match getting to watch our mate turn your ass red, doll.”

“You know… Iamfeeling extra determined now, so you may be right.” I chuckle. Here I thought saving my grandfather and Hell would be enough incentive but really all we needed was the promise of kinky sex with Oz.

“Sit down. Finish your damn breakfast,” Belz huffs. “When everyone is done, we’ll take the portal to the office.”

“Portal? What portal?”

“We’re not exactly close to the palace. And the rest of us can’t justpopin like you, so Luc installed a portal that takes us to our office there. Makes traveling to and from work a lot easier.”

“Oh! That’s so cool! So I get to see your houseandyour office?”

“There’s not much to see, but sure you can check out the office if you want, Princess,” Oz chuckles and I stick my tongue out at him.

Ten minutes later, everyone’s plates are clean and the dishwasher is loaded. I still can’t believe how modern Hell is. They havedishwashers. Man, my books were way off the mark. But it has reduced the culture shock with so many similarities to home.

I follow Belz to a door and find Fireball patiently waiting for us.

“We’ve gotta go to work, Bud,” Belz pets the hound as he whines.

“Awww. Let him come. You wanna come with us, boy? You wanna go see the palace?” I ask Fireball who gets excited by my baby talk and jumps on me, wagging his tail and yipping his affirmative.

“Of course, he wants to come. He hasn’t been to the palace since we found him as a pup and took him to meet Luc. Has he even met Snowball?” Zeph asks.

“I don’t think so.” Oz shrugs. “Luc didn’t get Snow until after Fireball. He was crushed when Icicle died protecting Sera and couldn’t even look at a hound until Fireball forced him to acknowledge him.”

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