Monster Song (My Beautiful Monsters #2) - J.B. Trepagnier Page 0,37

vest was engraved with the other monsters. There was even a flame for Hephaestus on one button.

“When did you do this?”

“One of my talents is sewing. I made this right around the time you were fucking Demos until the room caught fire, and it took me up until you stopped screaming with Kimon to get most of it done. My room is right next to yours. If I could set people on fire, I would have long burned his ass for not giving me what I was asking for.”

I adjusted my tits in that vest. Yeah, I definitely felt like I might maybe be able to kill someone now.

“I wanted it that way.”

Solron just laughed.

“So do I sometimes. Bael takes me to his dungeon and chains me to his Saint Andrews cross until I’m ready to murder him before he gives me what I want. But sometimes, a girl just needs that.”

Solron was pretty spot on with the over sharing. I had a feeling if I ever met Bael, I’d never be able to look him in the eye because, by the time this was over, Solron would share every single kink they liked to do together. I had my own shit in the bedroom. Demos and I burned a bedroom down, and I kind of practiced spider bondage with Pavlina. I told Kimon I wanted him to tie me down next time.

I’d never done any of that before when I was on Earth, but the more I played with my monsters, the more I realized how much I had been missing out dating safe guys and emotionally unavailable women on the rebound. Maybe I was just waiting to get kidnapped. Who knew?

No one took away that dagger Hephaestus made me. I wouldn’t have let them if they tried. It was his first gift to me, and I would always treasure it. I don’t think anyone wanted me armed, and they wanted me away from the fight, but Pavlina tossed me a holster.

“For your knife. Keep it on you at all times. I know they benched you, but anything can happen during war.”

“Especially if I’m guarding both you and Persephone,” Solron said. “That psycho bitch is going to eventually realize she’s lost, but if no one can get a killing blow, she won’t leave willingly without either taking Persephone or killing her. When she sees you with her, she will realize you set some of this in motion and try to kill you.”

I realized something about Solron. I knew she really enjoyed killing and maiming things. I thought she would have been bored sitting the fight out just to watch us, and the only reason she hadn’t complained was that Barbatos outranked her in the demon hierarchy.

She wanted to stand guard because she knew we were targets. This whole time, I thought we would be at a safe distance until the fighting was over, but Solron knew better. She hadn’t complained because she knew she was exactly where she needed to be.

“Solron, do you have one of Hephaestus’s weapons?”

I realized I didn’t need to ask. She was practically eye-fucking that knife.

“This is probably one of the best blades I’ve ever had the pleasure of holding, and I’ve got my killing knives and my bedroom knives. Bael would pay him a lot of money if he made knives this good for our bedroom.”

I shrugged.

“I think he takes the projects he wants and doesn’t ask for money.”

“We can figure your sharp sex toys out later. The two of you need to meet Kimon and get to the temple, and I need to get to the pits with the other monsters. You look like a killer now. Make me proud,” Pavlina said, giving me a hard smack on the ass before sauntering out the room.

This was it. We were going to rescue the queen of the Underworld.

Chapter 18

River

I

was still getting the hang of and processing the fact that I could open a portal with my mind and go anywhere I wanted. Kimon finally joined us and looked sexy as fuck. He had on leather trousers that hung low on his hips and some sort of spike and leather contraption on his chest that showed off all his muscles.

“One portal coming up,” I said, once we were all together.

“Oh, put that away,” Solron snapped. “Demon portals can be seen from miles away. You’ll have every soldier in that temple on us if you open one. That’s what shadow, smoke, and flame demons are for.