Devilish Desire

Chapter 3

A/N: I reread my story and the next chapters are almost as rushed as Marchlo's relationship lmao. I also wrote this chapter around November so Pierce and Chloe weren't a real thing. 

"Well, before our little make-out at the beach I thought it was all about the chase. It would have been an achievement to get the one woman, who wouldn't sleep with me into bed. I thought I'd have sex with her and forget about it afterwards, but now... we only had this short moment and everything I want to do is do it again and again. I've never felt that way about any other woman", somehow Lucifer felt freed after telling Ella about his feelings.

Obviously his speech left Ella speechless. He gave her some more seconds but when he still got no reaction he got nervous.

"Did I say something wrong?", the devil shot the brunette an insecure glance.

Ella sighted:"It was actually the sweetest thing you've ever said."

"So, miss Lopez, tell me what to do", Lucifer straightened his jacket.

"I'd say practice some self-control and see what time brings", the young woman smiled since she knew the devil disliked her suggestion but she didn't know what else he could do.

As the topic seemed finished Lucifer looked around. "Do you know where Pierce is?", he asked pryingly.

"Probably at the officer's lounge, just like Chloe, why you're asking?", Ella answered.

"Uhm I was just curious. I think I'm gonna go there too. What about you?", Lucifer tried to hide his jealousy.

"I'm just gonna do some work. I mean I have plenty of time, haven't I?", she let out a short laugh before smiling at Lucifer and making her way to her office.

Just as Ella left the devil's field of view he hurried down the floor towards the officer's lounge. When he approached he could her Chloe and Marcus' voices. So Ella was right, they really were there together. Realizing this made him boil with anger, well if he was honest it wasn't anger anymore, it was jealousy. That's what he had admitted to himself. He was jealous that another man, Dan excluded, was that near her. Without knocking he opened the door and turned inside where Chloe and Pierce were sitting vis-a-vis and talking about something Lucifer didn't know.

"Am I interrupting you two?", he asked and sat down next to Chloe, showing Pierce that he was Decker's partner... in more ways than the official way.

"Uhm no, actually we were talking about my marriage", Chloe seemed thankful for Lucifers interruption, but as soon as he was only a few inches away her pulse accelerated and her thoughts went back to their steamy moment on the beach. His body against hers, his and her arousal clearly noticeable. 

"Are you alright detective?", Lucifer asked,"you seem a bit abstracted"

"Uh yeah, I'm fine", Chloe shook her head, smiled and looked back to Marcus. "Where were we?"

Lucifer was unsatisfied that the detective started talking to Marcus and since it seemed that he couldn't distract her with words he decided to move closer to her, so their legs were touching.

"If I remember right, your divorce with Dan", the lieutenant said a little bit rushed. 

Chloe tried to ignore the tingling sensation Lucifer's touch was leaving inside of her. 

"Yeah, you know, he loved his job more than his family so we decided to take a break. And then this break somehow turned into a divorce", the blonde didn't want to tell her boss all the details. 

"Oh, detective", interrupted Lucifer," I forgot it back then but I wanted to say that I am really sorry if I am the reason for your divorce, I mean detective douche was obviously not very satisfied seeing his wife only dressed in a towel and this handsome guy", now he was talking about himself, "together making breakfast."

Even though Lucifer said he was sorry Chloe knew that this wasn't the case. In fact she knew how much Lucifer enjoyed these moments.

"Oh and detective, I still enjoy the of your naked body more than you know."

Wow, had he really just said that? In front of her boss? Chloe would love to be invisible right now. But Marcus just looked confused.

"Jealous?", the devil asked provocative.

"Oh no", Pierce said self-confident, "you don't have to tell me about your bedroom stories."

"No no no no no", Chloe said quickly, "Lucifer and I, we're nothing more than partners, well maybe friends but nothing like on a romantic level." The detective noticed Lucifers dissatisfied look and somehow this pissed her off so much she burst out: "Stop looking like a lost puppy, Lucifer. It's all your fault. We both know that there could have been more than just friendship  between us. But you decided to leave after I almost died without telling anyone. And after two weeks full of worry you came back married. So stop looking like it would bother you that we're nothing but partners", while saying this Chloe had to think of the time all these things had happened and she could feel tears blurring her vision. She turned her gaze to the ceiling and blinked a few times not wanting Lucifer or her boss to see her tears.

"This may sound very interesting but I think I should leave you two alone for some time", Pierce obviously felt uncomfortable and got up to leave the room.

When the Lieutenant had left Lucifer turned around to fully face Chloe and sighted before he rose his voice.

"Chloe", he spoke softly, "I wish I could explain my behavior, but I know you wouldn't believe me, so everything I can do is tell you that I am so sorry. I never wanted to hurt you, and I really want to prove this. So can we please try to forget what happened and move on from where we've been lately?"

Chloe let out a shaky breath she didn't even know she was holding and whiped off some little tears that had managed to slip through her lashes. Lucifer already feared that the blonde wouldn't want to speak to him anymore when she slowly nodded.

"We can try", she turned her head to him with a brief smile because if she was honest she never liked the distance that had developed almost a year ago. But since they were on a good base for the last months, Chloe was confident that they could possibly just move on with their partnership without being awkward around each other.

The rest of the time passed without any other appreciable adverse events. About four a.m. the power finally started working again and Pierce decided to give them the day off in order to catch some needed sleep.

The next morning, well more like noon, the Devil was awakened by his ringing phone.

"Hello Detective", he said smilingly after reading her name on the display.

"My mother is still asleep, it's me", a young voice said.