Page 28 of Her Darkest Devils (The Seven Sinners of Hell's Kingdom 3)

He nods. “Being so close to your soul has its benefits.”

My soul. Fuck. That’s it. He mentioned that he could feel Elias through me. What if he can use that with his dream walking? “What about communicating with Elias? We share a soul. Could you use me to reach out to him?”

Andre lowers his brows in thought. “I suppose I could try. You would both have to be asleep.”

Like my body and soul have pity on me, I yawn. “We have to try something.”

Nodding, he gathers power in his palm, setting the world around us aglow with fiery light. “Close your eyes, little hellion. I can put you to sleep.”

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Whoa. I’ve grown used to Andre sneaking into my dreams almost every night, but this is so strange. I feel as if I’m awake. If the world around me didn’t look like a new twisted level of Hell, I’d think I was.

“Andre? Where are you?” I ask, finding my voice. Fear snakes through my body, tightening around my chest. He somehow used his Hell power to put me to sleep, yet he’s not here.

Silence greets me. What if his power didn’t put me to sleep and sent me to Hell instead? Shit. No wonder I feel as if I’m awake.

“Andre, please. Say something.” My voice rings through the dark world, only lit by streaks of molten lava flowing through veins in onyx rocks of this freaky cave. Darkness shadows everything on both sides of me.

I’m afraid to move.

I’m alone.

No, wait. Someone else is here.

“Shit, Elias.” Like his soul drags me to him by an invisible line, I fly into the darkness and find myself standing over his body.

He curls his knees to his stomach and stares at nothing.

Kneeling beside him, I rest my hand on his shoulder. “Elias.”

Electricity zings from me to him, and he whips upright and meets my gaze. Horror crosses his features, his eyes widening and his mouth falling agape. It looks as if he sees a ghost with his reaction. His sudden fear makes me twist to stare behind me to check for demonic monsters.

“Fuck, darlin’. No. No, no, no. This can’t be happening. This is my fault.” His mouth trembles with his words, and he throws his arms around me, engulfing me in a hug. “Fuck. Please, God. Please. Don’t do this to her.”

I clutch him, rubbing my hand in circles between his shoulder blades. He feels so real and not like a figment of my imagination in this dark nightmare world. “Elias, hey. Take a breath. We’re okay. I’m alive and here with Andre’s help. We’re dream walking in your nightmare.”

Elias heaves a few deep breaths. “What? Fuck really? Why does it feel so real?”

“Because it is real in a way,” Andre says, materializing beside us.

Andre’s presence startles Elias, and he throws himself onto me protectively, using himself to shield my body. Clapping his hands together, Andre transforms the world around us, destroying Elias’s nightmare of Hell and turning it into a field of endless rainbow flowers with pink clouds hanging in an indigo sky. He still hasn’t lost his romantic touch being a devil, and I manage to ease Elias upright to glance around.

“I’m using my power to manipulate Raven’s soul. We’re all on what I can only describe as an alternate plane as if you project from your bodies and merge as one entity.” Andre smirks and ruffles his hand through Elias’s hair as if he’s a scared child. I can’t help but smile. “Your captor can’t keep me out. Never could. Never will be able to now that I’ve got to connect with you on such an intimate level.”

“I swear to fucking Hell, Andre. That better not mean what I think it means with that cock of ass destruction looking like it’s going to swing at me, knock me out, and have its way with my butthole. Raven’s either. We’re not capable of handling that thing in this life.” Elias furrows his brows with his words, looking like he wants to take a swing at Andre’s groin.

I whack Elias with a laugh. “Haven’t you heard? Anything is possible in a dream. What happened to my sexy, brave hunter?”

Andre bellows a laugh at my teasing of Elias. “Anything is possible with the power of lust at my fingertips.” Purposefully leaning closer, Andre grabs Elias’s hair to hold him still to whisper in his ear. “And for the sake of your knowledge, Raven rather enjoyed her time in Hell with me. I’ve officially been corrupted by that mouthwatering pussy of hers.”

Fuck me.

I throw myself between the two of them as Andre’s devilish side peeks through. I both love it and hate it, because he didn’t need to go there and announce our intimate affairs, though I know it was only because he wanted to prove Elias wrong.

“Okay, stop it. No more talking about sex, anal, dream threesomes, or whatever else the fuck Mr. Lust’s power ignites between the three of us.” I turn to Andre. “Please, chill. He’s fragile, even in this dream state.”

“I’m not fragile,” Elias snaps. “I’m trying to protect our assholes.”

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