Page 17 of My Demon Husband
“My wedding day, sweetheart,” she says and vanishes in a blaze of fire.
That’s when I see them circling up above in the orange sky. Up there, flying in the distance, are creatures with two wings, two hands, and two legs. A whole myriad of them.
Fuck! I’m truly in hell, aren’t I?
CHAPTER SIX
LUCIAN
“Call him again,”I tell Jace.
Jace lifts his phone to his ear without delay, but there’s still no answer.
Where is he? Has he changed his mind? Has something happened…?
No. I refuse to believe that. He can’t possibly be in danger again, but then again, Lilith did threaten him. What if she…? What if…?
Shit!
“Perhaps the groom changed his mind,” says the man next to me, and I glare at him.
I don’t care if he’s here to perform the ceremony. Iwillpunch his teeth in if he says that again. Even if I’m thinking the same thing.
But no. Yu-jin loves me. Yu-jin feels the same way about me as I do about him. He’s my soulmate. He wants me. I know he does.
So it must be Lilith.
She’s done something to him.
I shove the bouquet of blue roses at the officiant and run as fast as I can, barely holding back my wings until I get outside.
I reach for the ring handle of the old wooden door, the breeze already combing through my hair, when Yu-jin stumbles in, his hand attached to the ring handle on the other side of the door.
“You’re here!” I pull him into my arms and hold him there until I can make sure he’s okay.
“I. Am. Here. Can’t. Breathe.”
“I don’t care.”
And I really don’t. He nearly gave me a heart attack with his lateness. He deserves a little choking.
“You want…to marry…a corpse?”
He has a point, so I let him go and cup his face with both hands.
“Are you okay? What happened?”
Yu-jin laughs, shaking his head, and slaps his hand on my face gently several times.
“Nothing happened, silly. Just hit a bit of traffic. Relax.”
“Why aren’t you answering your phone. Jace has been?—”
“It ran out of juice, so I left it at home. My gods, Lucian. Calm down. Nothing happened to me. I’m here, aren’t I?”
He is. He is here.
“Don’t ever do this to me again,” I growl and pull him back into me for another hug.
