Page 15 of Falling for Lucifer
He enjoyed watching her squirm in her seat. He knew she understood that he was asking a double-edged question.
“Yeah, a time or two.”
His brows rose. “Yeah, how’d you like it?”
She licked her lips, and he loved that she played his game with him. “Loved it.”
His dick hardened, and he had to discreetly adjust himself in his seat. “I’ll have to take you for a ride sometime.”
“I look forward to it.” She gazed at him for a second longer before returning to the matter at hand. “But no, they wouldn’t believe that I met you at your job.” Then her eyes lit up. “We could say I was Hades and Harley’s wedding planner, and I met you through them.”
“You a wedding planner?”
Her eyes lit up. “I own my own business. I think it’s the perfect story. What do you think?”
He nodded slowly. “That could work. They got married three years ago.”
“That’s perfect.”
“What are we going to tell them about me not being around until now?” he asked. If they were going to do this, he wanted to make sure it sounded and looked good.
She shrugged. “We can just tell them we weren’t ready to meet each other’s families yet.”
Lucifer thought about it, but his phone rang and interrupted the moment. He saw it was Hades calling and knew he needed to answer. Hades was the type to pop up on him if he didn’t answer, since he had his and Eris’s locations.
“Just a second, love. It’s Hades calling.” She nodded, and Lucifer answered the phone. “Yeah, Hades?”
“Nigga, come meet your niece.”
“Huh?” Lucifer asked as he processed what Hades said.
“Stop playing, stupid mothafucka, and come meet my daughter. Harley just had my baby, and she look just like me too.” Lucifer heard the pride in Hades’s voice. He couldn’t believe his loose cannon brother was a father. He sat there in stunned silence. Harley was supposed to have a couple more weeks left, so this was the last thing he expected to hear. “I’m about to kick this midwife bitch out of my house so I can bond with my baby. Better get here quick before I’on want visitors anymore.”
“How—”
The line went dead, cutting Lucifer off. All he could do was shake his head. Hades would never change, and he knew now that he had a daughter, there would be a few more loose screws in that man’s head.
“Everything okay?” Ellodie asked.
Lucifer smiled before pinching her chin. “Yeah. Harley just had her baby. I’m about to go over there and check them out. Can I hit you up later so we can talk more?”
He stood as Ellodie’s eyes grew wide with excitement. “Yeah, of course. Give Harley my love.”
He stood, pulling her up with him. “I will. Hey, I have one more question quick though.”
“What’s that?”
“Since I’m your fake man now, will I get to kiss you?”
Ellodie giggled, and Lucifer decided it was his new favorite sound. “I guess you will. Why? You want to practice now?”
Lucifer let her go and gave her a lopsided grin as he backed up a few steps. “Nah. I’ll keep you on your toes.”
Once again, he heard her giggle as he turned toward the door, and it was at that moment he understood that he was a goner. Ellodie had him wrapped around her pinky finger. He only hoped it turned out to be a good thing and not a terrible mistake.
“Ican’t get enough of these chubby cheeks.” Yasmine crooned as she kissed Etta’s face. They sat outside at one of the many tables in Ellodie’s parents’ backyard with a large umbrella shading them from the sun. Uncle Martin and Daniel, Ellodie’s father, stood at the grill while other family members milled about. Everyone seemed to enjoy the sunny weather and the cool breeze.
Ellodie shook her head with the biggest smile on her face as her cousin made faces at her daughter. Yasmine was lucky she wasn’t just anyone because Ellodie would have went upside her head for kissing her baby all over her face. Nobody could tell Yasmine that Etta wasn’t her child, though, and really, if anyone deserved the other title of parent, it was Yasmine. She went to most of the doctors’ appointments with Ellodie, funded the entire nursery, threw her baby shower, and made sure Ellodie ate well every single day of her pregnancy. It was a cruel act offate that she just so happened to be out of town for the actual labor.
