Page 87 of Bound By Lust

“Oh for crying out loud, can you hurry the fuck up?!” Echo snarls and I go still, tears stopping as I look at the son of a bitch that annoys me the most of all my brothers.

“Listen, you greyscale, bitter bastard. Why the fuck are you even talking to me?” I growl and Echo fists his hands. I smirk daring him to try me, but Saint yawns loud and I turn to see him sitting on an indigo colored chaise that is in the middle of an odd ass emblem with a shit ton of complicated ass markings painted in rainbow colors in the middle of the floor. I think she said it was a magic portal…

“Do we have to do this now? I’m emotionally allergic to sunlight and responsibility. Can’t we just go so I can sleep?”

“Yeah, Saint is right,” Wilder mutters, looking at his watching. “I have a bastard to harass in a few, and the more we talk, the longer I have to be there, so chop chop,” he snaps. “Let’s get a move on. I can’t let that mother fucker breath for a se… although… if I make him think I’ve given up, that will lure him into a false sense of bliss. Then I can come back and snatch it all away again… yes… you know what? Never mind. Carry on,” he smiles and Gannon rolls his eyes.

“I’m opening a new restaurant soon, so I want to speed this up.” He munches on Skittles, and soon everyone starts complaining about what they have planned and why they don’t want to go until Father steps up.

“Okay okay, settle down and let’s go. Let’s make this quick and painless,” he tells us and we all begrudgingly step into the lame ass circle. Just as it starts to glow, my fever peaks again.

I don’t want to be here.

I want to be with her.

I want her mouth on me again, her thighs around my hips, her voice panting my name…mmm…

“Frank!” Genesis points to me. “You’re drooling.”

“Oh,” I lick my lips, chuckling awkwardly before wiping it away.

“You’re way too damn obsessed.” I can only shrug at his words, unable to deny it because it’s true. Every time I blink, I see her.Smell her. Feel her.

And now she’s out there without me!I clench my jaw, ready for this to be over, but something tugs at my spine and pinches at my brain, nearly making me wince. My body is light as the house around me peels open like an onion and reality seem to zip away in the background.

Then out of nowhere, the ground beneath our feet falls, yet we stay floating. Oddly enough, it feels as if a strong pull of gravity is yanking us down. Noise blasts around us, but it’s weird… like a vacuum in a rupture through time, through planes of existence. Wind screams in my ears, molten red and violet light spirals past me like a vortex of memories. Shadows fly with haunting screams and bellows.

The very air around us vibrates and it’s crazy as fuck, but I can feel the moment I leave the earth because my connection with Jessica physically snaps off, leaving my heart aching. In turn, themoment I feel hell, my lungs that have felt as if a dead blue whale has been lying on them can breathe for the first time.Finally.

My brain, which was foggy and cloudy, sharpens. My eyes laser focus on even the tiniest speck of dust in the air, while my body feels as light as a piece of lint

The moment my boots crash into the ground, it sounds as if a meteor hits the earth. Immediately, I try to connect with Jessica through mini me, but nothing.Fuck…I try to channel mini me and nothing…

Oh my God! I can’t even smell Jessica’s pussy in the air down here! This really IS hell! Fuck this, I need to g?—

FWEeeeee-eeEEE! CRRR-ACK-ACK! SIZZLE! Hissss! KRRR-RCH! Fizzzzzz… Shhhhh-shhhh… Tssssss…

Fireworks burst overhead, and music thrums from bone-and-chrome violins. Riverside cafés glow along paved roads as a crowd surges forward, cheering.

“ALL HAIL THE KINGS! ALL HAIL THE KINGS! ALL HAIL THE KINGS!”The fuck is this?!

I curl my lip, looking around to see vampires in armor, wolf-soldiers with ceremonial braids, fish-headed giants whose tails coil like anchors, cat and dog people, butterfly ladies, and dragons, among a shit ton of other creatures cheering, roaring, and chanting….

“ALL HAIL THE KINGS! ALL HAIL THE KINGS! ALL HAIL THE KINGS!”

I glance around and see my brothers are just as shocked as me when my mother steps forward, transformed with the deep red crimson skin, all black eyes, white hair and horns on display, in a black dress. She’s smiling proud and the crowd cheers louder, but when she raises her hands, they sound like the mute challenge at the Beyonce concert…what the fuck is going on here?

“Citizens of the Seven Hells… children of dusk and dawn, blood and starlight, hear me!

For an age and a century, the thrones have stood hushed in their high spirals, the iron glass crowns gathering only moonlight and memory while their rightful monarchs slept. As their souls cocooned in mortal vessels, power banked like hidden embers, you kept faith. You tilled crystal fields, forged cities of marble and neon, and whispered old names into every hearth so the darkness would remember.

Their power has always been great, but this time, in an event never seen in history, they will not rule separately, but together. They will rule as brothers, not rivals. As sovereign flames, not scattered sparks. The Seven Hells are vast, and this time their hearts will beat in unison.

And to you, my people, I ask you, rejoice without fear. The long interregnum has ended. The circle is complete, and our realm stands ready to blaze brighter than ever before.

Welcome them. Serve them. Thrive beneath them.

By their reigns, and by your loyalty, the Seven Hells rise anew.

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