the weightlessness as we floated in the air. The entire room lost gravity, scattering the debris from my tantrum as it drifted around us. I gasped when my back touched the ceiling, placing my hands against it.
Lucian simply placed his hands on either side of my head, trapping me there as he fucked me harder. My mouth crashed against his, and I whimpered at the intensity as he slammed his cock deep into my body, driving yet another orgasm through my system.
“You’re my home, Lena.”
“And you’re mine, Lucian,” I whispered, watching him pull away from my lips to stare at me. “I love you, I always have.”
“Remember that.” He studied my face as he slowed his movements, tensing and moaning with his release. “You’re home to me. I can’t breathe without you, Magdalena. You’re my fucking air, and without you, I will destroy everything. You’re not out of trouble, though. You do not know what you did.”
“I’m sorry for leaving,” I admitted. “I didn’t know Erie would take me away from here.”
“If Lucifer had gotten to you….” His words trailed off, but I’d caught the emotion in his tone. “You can’t do that again. You have no idea what the fuck is at stake.”
“Then tell me. Make me understand, Lucian.”
“I can’t,” he growled, and I clasped onto him as we slowly floated back to the bed while gravity returned.
“Because you don’t trust me? I have given you no reason not to trust me.”
“You won’t stop going to Lucifer, Lena. You put yourself in danger every time you go to him.”
“I am not going to him, asshole. He’s pulling me to him. He has done it without me even being in stasis. I don’t know how to stop him from taking me to him,” I argued.
“You have to not want him to take you,” he snorted. “You don’t get it, woman. If you die, I die. You claimed me as your fucking mate. If I die, everything I have ever captured or claimed will be unleashed onto this world you love so much. If that happens, it’s game fucking over. You are my fucking weakness, and if anyone figures that out, you will become a target for my enemies. From the moment of my creation, I have never been vulnerable until you. There’s another thing, but I can’t tell you what it is until you can stop wanting Lucifer to take you away from me. You say you love me, and I don’t question it, Lena, because you’ve proven your loyalty and love to me by sacrificing your life. But you are placing us both in danger. Do you get that?” Lucian adjusted beside me, pulling my body against his while peering into my gaze.
“My seal is a living thing, Lena. It’s one of the three furies within you, the one that craves chaos and destruction. The seal lives and breathes to execute what it was created to protect—me. The second fury is judgment and the protector of Pandora’s Box, which houses the essence of the seven sins. The third and final fury is the keeper of Abaddon. No creature has ever been strong enough to house all three of the furies at once. Nyx assumed they would fracture and attach to one of the others she brought back, like your brother. She failed to calculate how fucking strong and powerful you were or would become. You can unleash Hell and the seven deadly sins into this world simply by touching the locks. You’ve become the key, Lena. You locked one fury within you, attaching it to your form with runes. She slumbers, stolen from the other two furies within you. I need to know how you did that because we have to put the other two down.”
“I can’t do it again, Lucian. The cost was my soul and the sacrifice of our child. I had to give up our son to a primordial being and the one thing I valued most in life. It left me an endless void of nothingness. I am soulless and don’t have a spare to recreate the spell. Not that it would matter, because I have nothing else that I value as much as I did my soul except for….”
“Except?” he asked, watching me.
“You,” I whispered, observing the way he smiled while my heart pounded painfully against my ribs.
“Then we keep you safe, Lena. Asmodeus knows his furies are back, and you can be damn sure he’s aware of what they hold within them. At