Page 53 of How to Accidentally Become the Devil

“Rest assured, the only name I’ll be saying is yours, sweet boy,” Geo responds in a husky tone that would make me blush if it were directed at me by one of my mates.

“Good.” Reed nods once as his formerly pink cheeks turn bright red.

“Okay. Can we not talk about your sex life at the dinner table?” I groan.

“Why? You’re the devil now so suddenly sex is inappropriate dinner talk?” my asshole best friend arches a brow at me.

“No. My parents and grandfather are at the table.That’swhat makes sex inappropriate dinner conversation.” I scowl.

“Valid.” He shrugs.

Rolling my eyes, I address the rest of the table. “Well, let’s eat.”

Everyone digs in, passing platters around and filling their plates. Dad’s too busy making moon eyes at Mom to touch the food, so she puts some on his plate for him with a grin.

Reed gets passed the plate of foyiorin and looks at it in disgust.

“What the hell is this?”

I laugh at his reaction. “I know it looks super gross. But it’s actuallyreallygood. You’ll like it.”

He scrunches his nose but takes a small scoop of it before passing it to my dad, who blindly takes it and hands it to Mom.

“So, Madelyne. I’ve seen the aesthetic changes to the castle. Have you made any other changes yet?” Luc asks before taking a bite of his food. “Oh, this is good. What is it?”

Smiling at his reaction to my all time favorite food, I say, “Mac and cheese.”

“Why have we never had this before? This is human food?”

Laughing, I nod. “It is. We do some things right, especially when they involve cheese.”

“Mmmm, I’ll give you that.” He takes another big bite and moans.

When I don’t immediately pick the conversation back up, he waves his free hand at me.

“Oh. Right. Well, when I got called away yesterday, I did my first official soul sorting. Which turned into my first official torture room assignment. These two demons were arguing about the sin this soul should be assigned to so I took it from them. Turns out he was a competitive eater. I didn’t think he deserved to be tortured for all eternity because of that so I changed up his punishment.”

“Changed it how?” Oz asks.

Biting my lip, I explain about the nuns telling him to repent in the hopes he does and can leave Hell.

Luc smiles at me. “Good job,Neptis. I knew you would be a great ruler.”

“Well, that explains what happened in torture hall four.” Oz shakes his head.

“What do you mean?”

“This morning I felt something happening with the torture rooms. When I got there, I found every room in hall four was different. I was just in that hall last week, but today every room is different. Each room I went into had someone shouting at the soul to repent. Now I know why.”

“But I didn’t do that. I only did that to one room,” I argue.

“That’s all it takes, my dear,” Luc says. “The magic of Hell felt your intention and is changing to suit your wants, needs, and desires. Just like the changing of the crests and the decor. Hell is learning what you want and will change itself to accommodate you as its ruler.”

Holy shit.That’s crazy. Awesome. But crazy.

“So… How exactly did Mads become theruler of Hell?” Reed asks around a large mouthful of foyiorin.

Oh good, he did like it, maybe Reed can adapt to hell after all.

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