She recoiled with a grimace. “You’re drunk.”
“Bel made martinis. Want one?” Despite the offer, he still didn’t get out of the way.
“And join your dirty demon orgy or whatever’s going on in there? Hell no. I just want to see my sister.”
He threw back his head and laughed. Then he folded forward and laughed some more. He wheezed and fanned the air like he couldn’t breathe. “Hear that?” he hollered. “She doesn’t want to join our orgy!”
Laughter echoed from the kitchen.
Iris ground her teeth. “Just tell me where my sister is.”
“How do you know she’s not part of the orgy?”
“Meph, stop being a jerk and let her in!” a female voice called out.
“You ruin all my fun,” he said back and then smirked at Iris. “Come on in, sugar.”
“My name,” she bit out, “isIris.”
Pushing past him, she marched into the house, only to realize that wasn’t the best idea when she ended up in a kitchen full of people staring at her. The first person she noticed was an actual giant with the brightest blue eyes she’d ever seen.
Jerk-Off came up beside her. “Welcome to our evil, demonic orgy.”
The giant rolled his eyes. “Meph, shut up.” He looked at Iris. “Your sister’s in the other room. And before you ask, she’s fine.”
“Who the hell are you?” Iris snapped.
His brows shot up, and everyone stiffened. The air was suddenly thick with tension.
“You wanna try that again?” He spoke slowly, and something in his voice told her that he was not to be fucked with.
“Bel,” the woman said. “Be nice.”
He transferred his murderous glare to her but said nothing.
“I’m Eva,” the woman said. Her eyes were warm, and there appeared to be nothing evil about her, but that didn’t mean anything. “That’s Bel. Raum. Meph. And Ash.” She linked hands with a guy with epic long hair as she said his name.
Iris had definitely heard of Raum, and she had to assume the others were nicknames. “Bel, as in…?”
“Belial,” the giant grunted. He pointed to the other demons. “Mephistopheles. Asmodeus.” He pointed to the woman. “Evangeline. Not a demon.”
Iris’s mouth dropped open. No way.No fucking wayshe was standing in a room with those four demons. It was absurd. Impossible. Otherwise, she’d already be dead, or strung up by her own guts, or bleeding out on the floor, or—
What if that’s what happened to Lily?“Where the hell is my sister? Where the fuck is she!”
“Whoa, whoa, Lily’s fine.” Eva approached with her hands up. “She’s just in the other room with Mist.”
“She’s with the demon right now?” Iris’s eyes darted frantically around.
“Yeah, they’re just—”
“What did he do to her!”
The woman sighed, and Iris didn’t miss her rolling her eyes before she closed them. When they opened again, however, she had carefully schooled her expression into one of patience.
“Your sister’s fine. She’s with Mist in his room of her own free will, and he’s not harming her in any way. I already shot her a text to tell her you’re here, and she’ll come out as soon as she’s ready. If you want to sit down, Bel can make you a drink while you wait.”
Iris took a second to process this. The giant was Belial, fuckingBelial, and he was going to make her a cocktail because her sister was locked in a bedroom with a demon.
