Page 122 of Demon's Heart
Dante and Ashwere coming over for dinner, and it was one hundred percent a double date.
“This Saturday night better go smoother than the last one,” Harper muttered as a knock sounded on the door.
Ollie jumped up to get it. “I’m sure it will.”
Dante swept him up in a kiss the moment he opened the door.
“Careful. Don’t knock the cake.” Ash shooed them to the side so he could get the many things he was carrying inside.
“If it survived the flight, I’m sure the cake will be fine,” Dante said.
“Next time, I’ll bake it here and save myself the trouble.”
Dante’s face fell. “But I like you baking at the house. It smells so good.”
Ash raised a brow. “I thought it was torture because I never let you taste anything?”
Dante grumbled, “Doesn’t mean I didn’t like it,” as Ash walked away.
“Come on.” Ollie pulled him into the living room.
Harper and Ash were whispering in the kitchen doorway, so Ollie flopped onto the couch, dragging Dante along with him. It had been a long week, and all Ollie wanted to do was wrap up in his mate.
“I think we need to see each other more often. There are too many days between Saturdays.”
Dante chuckled.
They’d closed off the bond again. Sharing twenty-four-seven was still too much, but Ollie was open to doing it more. Not only during sex but any time one of them needed the extra support.
“Why don’t we meet for coffee in the middle of the week?” Dante suggested. “I’ve been looking up cafés near your work. A few bakeries too.”
“That’s perfect. And maybe we can get drinks with Dex one evening. He needs to meet you properly.”
Dante’s face broke into a wide smile. “I’d love to.”
Harper joined them on the couch. “Do you guys want to go to Rowan’s club after dinner? Ash and I are going to check out the dancers.”
Ollie grinned at the pink staining Harper’s cheeks. “You two have fun. I think Dante and I are going to playWorld’s End.”
Harper shrugged. “Okay, suit yourself. I’ll text Onyx and see if he’ll meet us there.”
Onyx had already declined to join them for dinner because “no one needed a fifth wheel,” but it was worth trying again. “Good idea. Hopefully, he’ll be up for that. Even with Ash.”
“Hey,” Ash called from the kitchen.
Ollie was disappointed Onyx wasn’t coming over tonight. They’d postponed their fancy mates dinner, and hopefully, Onyx wasn’t avoiding him and Harper. Ollie wished Onyx would find his mate. He cared about all his friends’ love lives, but knowing how long Onyx had waited hurt Ollie’s heart.
One day, Onyx would find his mate, and Ollie would be there to celebrate with him. No matter how long it took. It was one of the good things about immortality.
“Have you figured out how Luc saw through your invisibility illusion?” Harper asked Dante.
When they’d been in the Realm of the Damned, Lucifer had spotted them when they should have been invisible. Ollie had missed that part of the initial story, understandably, with how many things had been going on that night, but it had been bothering Dante ever since.
“No.” Dante frowned, rubbing his horn. “It might have been a trick of the tower we found Luc in. There was at least one illusion cast on the glass, preventing anyone from seeing in. Maybehe also had a counterspell cast on the reverse side, so he could see past spells to a true view of what lay beyond.”
Harper nodded like that was logical.
“It’s our best guess,” Ash added as he came out of the kitchen, wiping his hands on a towel.
