Page 52 of The Angel's Kiss
In my opinion, it was just cruel on God’s part. Why make a flawed species only to punish them when they do what you created them to do? If God was all wise and all-knowing, then even God knew everything that had transpired throughout human history was exactly what it was meant to be if people were given the choice to do whatever they wanted. They were made—according to them them—in “God’s image”, with the capacity to be both good and evil. At least with angels, they didn’t have a choice. Lucifer was the exception and why he was cast out of Heaven. Humans were doomed and I wondered if Rai knew that.
I narrowed my gaze as the sigil I drew in the sand began to burn and turned to glass, a black smoke rising from the signs to shimmer before me in all of his shapeless splendor.
Cain.
“Hello, old friend,” I greeted.
“Azazel. I cannot stay for long. What is it?” Cain replied, his voice reverberated through my body in a deep, gravelly tone.
“Something that may be as bad on Earth as it is in Hades. Demons are searching for kids and the rumor is that they want to unleash Satan,” I informed him.
“Impossible.”
“Maybe not.”
“He has been sealed since forever.”
“According to the rumor, a seventh woman gave birth to a baby that didn’t live.”
The black smoke shook and I couldn’t tell what emotion Cain was feeling. Was it fear, anger, or annoyance?
“Impossible,” he said again.
I rolled my eyes because whether or not he thought it was possible, it didn’t take away from the fact that demons were searching for specific children. “Humor me, my friend. Say it is possible, who would know more about it?”
The black smoke flowed back into the sigil, but it was still smoldering, so I knew he would return as the gateway wasn’t closed. I waited ten minutes before his smoke seeped back through the gateway sigil, shimmering before me once again in the shape of a man. That meant it took him ten days to get that information for me.
“The Demon, Baal, who was banished to Earth, he may know the answers to your questions,” Cain said.
I knew the only reason he was willing to give me this information was because the three Empresses of Hell would not want to war with the members of Satan’s army for control ofHades. They had long since gotten used to being in power and wouldn’t willingly give it up. Baal was the first king of Hell, before Satan took over. Many believe that it was Satan who tempted Eve with the apple, but it was Baal’s idea when he made a bet with Lucifer. It was to prove that God’s creation that was favored by him over angels as Lucifer had believed, could be seduced by evil. According to the story as I knew it, Lucifer had claimed no human could be tempted, to which Baal wanted to challenge him.
In doing so, Lucifer did exactly what Baal wanted him to do, which enraged God. That was why he was cast out and since he’d made the deal with the demon, Hell was where he was sent. Humans might know his name best as Beelzebub.
I was sure Rai knew the history of the war that took place between Satan and Beelzebub as the two battled for control of Hades—Hell as it was known back then. This happened about ninety-five hundred years ago. Satan won and exiled Beelzebub from Hell and sent him to Earth. It took three Archangels to lock Beelzebub away, as he was that powerful. However, that show of strength on Satan’s end was what made other demons want to follow him. But it also made some want to take that power from him. Five thousand years ago, Satan made the mistake of wanting to bring Hell onto Earth as his way to get vengeance on God for casting him out. He also wanted to make the humans who were so weak to temptation suffer his wrath. It brought the army of Heaven and Earth as well as Hell against him. That was when Guardians were created, the first one, Ade, who was bonded with the Archangel Azrael.
Getting to Beelzebub was going to be impossible on my end. After demons had tried to free him from his cell a thousand years ago, security was tightened, so to speak. Meaning only a fully bonded Guardian would know where to find him. I had no ideawhere he was or how to get there. It was enough, though. And something Rai could work with.
“Is that all, Cain?” I asked.
“That is all.”
“Thank you, old friend.”
The black essence descended back into the sigil and the low flames extinguished leaving glass that looked like ice with smoke coming from it. I teleported back to Rai’s home, having no issues with entering, which was nice. I opened his bedroom door and saw him sleeping soundly and it was already late afternoon. He must have been exhausted. I took off my shoes and slipped under the blankets beside him. He looked so peaceful as he snored lightly. He was so beautiful and fierce, but now, he was vulnerable. I reached out, my finger so close to his lips, but I didn’t make contact. I only wanted to trace their voluptuous shape. I wanted to see them part in a smile as he looked at me, even though he was just as sexy when he sneered.
He must have sensed that he was no longer alone, because his gorgeous turquoise eyes shot open and he stared at me.
“Why are you in my bed?”
“In your bed is where I want to be,” I said.
He rolled his eyes, then flipped onto his back and wiped his beautiful eyes with the back of his hand. “Ugh, I don’t have time for your shit.”
“You don’t have time to be lounging in bed either... but we could make time for a little fun,” I flirted.
He looked at me and, taking me by surprise, he pounced on me, pinning my wrists to the bed. “You’re a demon, I’d never stick my cock into you.”
I arched an eyebrow at that. “Ooh, tell me more about how you want to fuck me.”
