Chapter23

#Chapter23

The door was unlocked and we made our way out. We had only been gone for five or ten minutes but it seemed so much longer and so much seemed different. Lucien beamed when he saw our joined hands.

Demon only lifted an eyebrow, his dark eyes making me feel so tiny. I squeezed Joel's hand tighter.

/"Did you get in trouble?/" Lucien asked as soon as we were reseated.

/"Lucien,/" Demon warned, earning a sheepish grin from Lucien.

/"Yup./" I side-eyed Joel. /"He went real boring and said I was being bad, blah, blah, blah but then he said I was a good dino so I was happy again./"

/"That's how your conversation went?/" Demon asked, the corners of his lips tugging upwards. It wasn't quite a smile and until it was, I refused to give him a nice, sweet name like Angel for somebody that was such a grumpy, mean-looking monster.

/"No./" Joel shot me a scowl. /"Asa, apparently, makes a habit of missing points./"