I wanted to reach for her, but instead curled my fingers into fists and watched as she flicked her red hair back and kicked her leg up, so it rested on my shoulder.I dragged in a sharp breath as she leaned in, only an inch from me, as she sang along to the rage-filled words, and before she sang the wordbitch, she spun to Uma, who was watching like a shark, and said it with emphasis right at her twin sister.
Uma tried to come for her, but several handmaids held her back.Ursula’s laugh was raspy and lifted goose bumps all over my skin as she turned back to me and trailed her fingers down the side of my face, in a touch that was deceptively gentle, before her hand snapped out and gripped my throat.
I locked every muscle in my body, because I still wanted to grab her, to pull her to me and demand that she believe me.“I never slept with your sister,” I ground out between clenched teeth.“I’ve told you a thousand fucking times, we only kissed,once, because I thought she was you.”
Ursula flashed her teeth.No, she bared them, like a wild animal, and her grip on my throat tightened before she leaned in again.“Do you really think I give a shit whose mouth you stick your tongue in?”
My nostrils flared as I sucked in a breath, taking in a lungful of her drugging scent.“You played the song, Ursula.You walked over here fucking singing it,” I growled.The song that was playing the first time I finally got to taste you.“What else am I supposed to think?”
Her perfect, vicious lips curled up, and she chuckled huskily.“Jesus, you’re too fucking easy, Si.I think playing with you has become my new favorite thing to do.”Her little pink tongue slid along her lips.“I bet if I checked, you’d be hard as fuck right now.”
My nostrils flared, humiliation slamming through me.She was right.I was so hard it hurt.
Ursula laughed.“You really are pathetic.”
“Back the fuck up,” I said, breathing like I’d run a marathon.
She smirked and straightened.“I take it since you’re sitting here like a stalker, you’re my new travel buddy?”
I dipped my chin, grinding my damn teeth.I’d miscalculated.I thought I could handle this, that maybe having this time alone with her, I’d finally be able to make her understand, to believe me, but I realized in that moment, looking into her eyes bright with fury disguised as humor, I was seriously wrong.
Her smile widened.“Oh goodie.We’re going to have so much fun.”
Zenon called her name.Ursula turned, and he tossed her the key, the official tournament invitation.
She snatched it out of the air, and her eyes widened momentarily, the only sign of real emotion besides anger since she’d laid eyes on me.
“From Lucifer,” Zenon said, then he got up and strode out of the bar.He couldn’t get out of there fast enough, and I didn’t blame him.
Ursula grinned down at the stone key.“About fucking time.”
Ursula
I kept the smirk on my face as I spun away, but as soon as I was out of sight, I let the fury take hold.Rox watched me coming, question in her eyes.I grabbed her hand and led her from the room and down a short hall to the restrooms.
Shoving the door closed, I locked us in, then unable to hold it together another moment, I snarled and slammed my fist into the wall.
“What’s going on, Urs?”Rox asked, concern filling her voice.
I held up the jagged stone key, the official invitation to The Tartarean.
“Holy shit.”
“What the actual fuck is Lucifer playing at?”I hissed.
She frowned.“Urs?—”
“First, he sends you off with Lothar, and now me andfucking Silas?”He said he loved us over and over, but then pulled shit like this?I shook my head as I paced the room.“I’ve been wanting to represent Hell in The Tartarean for centuries, and he’s forcing me to do it with Silas?I’m not doing it.No fucking way.”Nausea rose from my stomach to my throat, and my blood burned hot in my veins.This was a betrayal.Lucifer knew how much the situation with Silas, the shit that happened between us had messed me up, but he obviously didn’t care.Just like he didn’t care that Roxy was in pain having to be with Lothar twenty-four seven.
“You don’t have a choice,” Rox said gently.
I kept pacing.“I will never forgive Lucifer for this, for making me do this.Never.”
“You don’t mean that,” she said and closed the space between us.“If I can forgive him, then so can you.”
I spun to her.“And have you?Forgiven him for making you spend every moment with Lothar for the foreseeable future?The male you once loved with your whole heart?A male who doesn’t remember that once upon a time he loved you too?”She looked like I’d just punched her in the chest, which was answer enough.“Exactly,” I bit out.“He says he loves us, then personally tears open our wounds, not caring if we fucking bleed out.”
“You’ve wanted this for so long, and this time your skills will be invaluable.You have to do this?—”