After the storm

Chapter 11

It was quite early in the evening and the traffic was still terrible. Some people were speeding home, having just left their work and wanting to get in time for dinner with their families, while others were heading to the clubs to blow off the steam and dance the night away.

Chloe was driving in her car, trying to make her way through all this traffic madness somehow. After another solved case and finished paperwork, her destination was Lux and its owner who happened to be an Angel/Devil and also her boyfriend. She smiled when thinking of him, so far everything was going fine, their relationship was blooming and Lucifer was acting quite decent when at the crime scenes, well at least he was making an effort. Thus it didn't surprise her when he told her during the day that he invited her to Lux for a small celebration after another case closed.

So here she was – in front of the club. She parked the car and went inside, skipping the queue as the staff has been passing her through since the beginning of her partnership with the owner.

Once inside, she came up on the balcony and leaned on the railing, trying to catch sight of Lucifer but he was nowhere to be seen. She decided to go down the stairs and look for him in the dance area. She made her way through the moving crowd, the lights were blinding and the air was vibrating with the loud music. She felt a headache starting to form, all those stimuli not helping either. She'd prefer to meet Lucifer at the penthouse, not here.

She looked around, feeling helpless and then suddenly she spotted him through the crowd of dancing pairs. He was sprawled on the sofa and just as she opened her mouth to shout his name and started walking there, she noticed something or rather someone by his side, even three to be exact. Chloe stopped in her tracks. Her first thought was to flee from there and never look back but she resisted the idea. Despite her instinct, she came closer reluctantly.

Yeah, that was really him, she couldn't believe her eyes. She stopped in front of him and put her hands on her hips, feeling the anger rising and filling her whole body.

"Lucifer, what are you doing?" She hissed, her eyes squinted the same way they were when she was interrogating a suspect.

Obviously, he finally recognized her as he quit making out with one of the women. He looked at her and she noticed something strange in his eyes, a kind a craziness so unlike him now but sometimes evident back in the days at the beginning of their partnership.

"Oh. Hello, Detective." He said as if nothing really happened and this kind of behavior was now normal for him. "You finally came. I was worried you won't come due to loads of paperwork." He grinned like a fool. "You've just made it to our small celebration. Remember Brittany, Brittany and Brittany?" He pointed to the three blondes in pink mini dresses obviously very eager to have some fun.

His words made her baffled. "Lucifer, what the hell is going on here?" She raised her voice and crossed her arms.

"What do you mean?" He asked, not having a clue what the problem was. "It's my surprise for you. You know we were supposed to celebrate another solved case together." He explained.

Chloe let out a deep sigh, she was barely holding up. "Lucifer, by 'celebrating' I thought you meant meeting you here and then going upstairs to have some wine and later maybe spending the night together, definitely not something I'm witnessing here." She said, getting angrier with each word.

"Detective, we can still do the things you said but with the company. The more the merrier." His reply made her furious. Her eyes went big with surprise.

"Lucifer, do you hear what you're saying? I thought I meant something for you." She said, hurt evident in her voice.

How could he do this to her? After everything they've experienced, Lucifer's actions seemed so weird, just like someone wiped off this part of him that had changed and left the old hedonistic Lucifer, who was thinking only about his own pleasure.