“Blair, are you ready to go home?” I ask her.

“Yes,” she says, scooting out of her chair and holding a hand out to me. No flinching when I touch her skin. Her touch feels different now, like she’s less fragile against my touch. “Uh, so I guess I’ll be seeing you soon,” she says, looking between Lucifer, Lilith, and Mara.

“Perhaps once Daxaddon teaches you to portal,” Lucifer says.

“Perhaps,” she says. Not wanting to stand in this awkward as fuck family function a second longer, I portal her to her front yard.

She doesn’t even look nauseous as she stands straight up on the lawn. “That’s what it’s supposed to feel like?”

“It will only get easier the more you do it. We can start working on it tomorrow if you’d like.”

“I’d like that,” she says, giving me a tight smile.

“Do you want me to leave?” I ask her.

“No,” she says, biting her nail. “I’m just nervous about seeing Stevie.”

“If she’s not here, she should be with Kas and Asmo,” I reply.

She nods her head, and we walk over to her front door. She exhales as she turns the doorknob. As soon as the door opens, a disturbingly foul smell leaks out, making us both want to heave.

“What the fuck is that?” she says, using her arm to cover her nose. Her eyes watering.

“Clover,” I reply.

Her eyes widen as she looks over at me and then shrugs, turning around and walking back toward the driveway, away from the stench.

“To the bungalow?” I ask her. She nods her head, I take her soft hand in mine and portal us into the living room.

Epic mistake.

“Ah!” Blair shrieks as we watch Asmo fuck Stevie from behind while she goes down on Kas. All of them turn to face us.

“Fuck off,” Asmo says to me.

“Seems like you lot weren’t terribly concerned about what was going on with us. We’ll be in my room. Come get me when you’re done with… whatever this is.” I flail an arm in their direction and place a reassuring hand on Blair’s back and direct her to my room.

Blair takes in the surroundings, not looking impressed. “Not what I would have pictured for a demon’s bedroom.”

“I’m just renting the place.”

Blair sits down on the bed. Her fingers tracing the patchwork quilt covering it. “Now that things with Mara are done, what does that mean for you?”

I sit down next to her, putting a palm on her hand. “Well, currently I have a new demon to train and I plan on following her wherever she wants to go.”

She looks up at me from under her lashes. “That’s really what you want?”

“That’s really what I want.”

She shrugs her shoulders. “So we could go anywhere?” she asks.