Winter's War (Her Guardians series Book 4)(23)

“I will take you and protect you,” Atti says before I can even offer to send someone to go. I don’t like the idea of Lucifer or Josh going outside the castle right now.

“I’m coming, too. Freddy wouldn’t forgive me if his new best friend got hurt,” Wyatt says, standing up as well.

“I should come,” I say, and both Atti and Wyatt shake their heads.

“No, the crowning for Dabriel is in two days, and important. I know Alex has a dress she needs you to try on,” Atti says, and I groan, looking around for Alex but not seeing her. I dread to know what kind of dress she has planned.

“We will meet the day after the crowning to plan for war. Every person who is going to fight, needs to be training. Working together,” Atti says firmly and walks out with Lucifer and Wyatt following.

“Soon you will be my Queen, officially,” Dabriel says once everyone other than Jaxson has left.

“Erm . . . I want to say I’m looking forward to it, but I don’t want to know what dress Alex has planned,” I say, and he laughs.

“Dabriel, I need a word,” Harris says, poking his head around the door.

“Hey Harris,” I say, and he smiles.

“Hey, Win, but I’m serious, two of your angels are fighting, and it’s not good. We have stopped them, but they are talking about the laws of females or something,” Harris says with a worried look, and then we hear a loud bang outside the room, followed by the sound of glass smashing.

“Be right back,” Dabriel says and kisses me gently before walking out. I look down at Jaxson, who pats his lap, and I move so I’m sitting on him.

“That right there, was a Queen I’m extremely proud of,” he tells me, and I laugh.

“I thought I was being a little too bossy,” I say, hoping I wasn’t, but I know they need to get over their silly traditions and hate for halfs. Things have to change now.

“It was a major turn on, if you want to know,” Jax says, leaning closer and trailing his lips down my jaw.

“Oh yeah, I can tell,” I say, moving a little on his lap and feeling how hard he is. Jaxson laughs before he picks me up and lays me down on the table, kissing me, pressing his body into mine. Jaxson seems to have as much urgency as me, as we quickly remove all our clothes and he thrusts into me, capturing my moans with a kiss.

“Best be quiet, lass, we wouldn’t want someone to walk in,” Jaxson says with a slight growl before he does everything he can to make sure I can’t stay quiet.





14





Winter





“What’s this?” I ask as I walk into my bedroom after a long day of training and then helping some of the angels move into their new rooms. It’s been difficult to move them in, but surprisingly, the witches, wolves, and even the older vampires helped. They seemed to have some kind of change when we turned up with the thousand, or so, angels and told everyone they were moving in.

“Girls night. Everything is so serious, and well, I think we could use a relaxing night in,” Alex says as I look around to see her, Katy, and Leigha sitting in front of the fire which is lit. There is a movie on pause on the TV, and I try not to laugh as I see Milo sat on my bed, a selection of chocolate surrounding him. The little demon looks more than happy, and his green outfit has been exchanged for some duck pyjamas. I have no idea where he is getting these clothes.

“And Milo? Milo isn’t a girl,” I say as I slip my shoes off and walk over, sitting in between Alex and Katy.

“Milo is, well, Milo. He saw the snacks, and here we are,” Katy says as she picks up the bowl of popcorn and hands me it.

“I do not blame him one bit,” I say, and we all look over at Milo who burps loudly and grins at us all with a chocolate-covered face. We all can’t help but laugh, but Milo doesn’t notice as he continues eating away.

“The demon is cute, but where does he get the outfits from?” Leigha comments, thinking exactly what I am.

“I don’t know,” Alex shrugs.

“Milo come here a sec,” I shout over, and he looks between me and the chocolate. I can see it’s a difficult choice, but he does get up and fly over. Milo lands on my lap, and I try to wipe some of the chocolate off his clothes.

“We wondered where you got your outfits from.” I ask him, and he nods.

“Prime,” he says, and I frown at him. Prime?

“Oh my God, it makes so much sense now.” Alex says, and I look over at her in confusion as she glares at Milo. He looks down, but I see the little smirk.

“Okay, so I have Amazon Prime, and my account kept saying I was buying Build a Bear outfits. Dozens of outfits. Now, I haven’t had time to think about it but . . .,” she drifts off as we both look at Milo and start laughing.

“Man delivers to woods,” Milo says proudly, and I just don’t want to think about the poor person who delivered packages to the woods. Or, if Milo actually accepted the package. I can just imagine the poor man’s face when a tiny demon with blue hair appears out of the woods to sign for the delivery. I bet the man dropped the packages and ran off.

“You even bought a Minions outfit, I mean what?” Alex says, looking up from her phone.

“Yellow?” Milo asks and then flies off back to my bed and the safety of the food. We all chuckle as we watch him start eating, and Alex mumbles about closing her Amazon account somehow and wondering how he got the password in the first place.