The Devils Son: Afterlife

6. City Nights

Now that we are both sufficiently tipsy I finally manage to convince Luke we should head back. After much hesitation and "just one more" comments had worn out I was able to get him out of the bar and walking back to the apartment.

"If you could go back and be human again would you?" I ask looking up at him as we walk down this quiet street in the dark.

"Uhm, maybe, but probably not" he says shrugging. "We can fly, and we never get old, and we can come back to earth when ever, we have all this freedom and more so probably not"

"What about you?" He ask looking down at me

"I don't know" I say honestly and he just nods.

As we walk a group of 5 or so guys appears at the end of our street and I start to get anxious, I can already feel the negative energy coming off of them.

Just as we are about to walk past them one of them starts to cat call me and just as I'm about to stop and confront him Luke rests his hand on the small of my back and keeps us walking.

"It's not worth it" he says quietly as we continue to walk. We turn onto another street and I can see our apartment at the end.

"You ever going to tell me about that thing you've discovered" he says breaking my thought process about that group of assholes.

"It's not important" I say quietly

"You can tell me" he says reassuring me. I still don't know if I even trust him.

"I just found out about my husband" I say quietly looking down at the sidewalk.

Just as I'm about to walk up the steps and enter the building Luke grabs my hand and stops me before he sits down on the bottom step.

"Cmon" he says looking up at me. I contemplate it for a moment before I sit down next to him.

"Tell me about him" he says after a moment.

"Why do you care?" I finally say

"If you won't tell me who will you tell? You don't exactly socialize with.. well anyone else. I'm like your only friend. It's clearly something that's eating you up might as well talk about it" he says and shrugs

"Were friends?" I ask looking up at him almost surprised

"Shut up" he says and nudges me. I stare down at the pavement thinking everything through carefully before opening up.

"It sounds ridiculous to say" I finally say looking up at him. "According to my brother I married the devils son"

"The Devils Son?" He says back to me and I can tell he's trying really hard not to make a face.

"Ya" I say quietly

"The devil has a son?" He says and I see the side of his lip twitch in amusement and that's all it took. I immediately stand up and head for the door when he grabs my hand again.

"I'm sorry, come back please" he begs me. I look down at him for a second before rolling my eyes and sitting back down on the cold step with him.

"So that's a bad thing right?" He says after a moment of silence passes.

"According to my brother, who is the only one who can remember him. He says he manipulated me and that he used mind tricks to fuck with me and get in my head making me believe I loved him" I say softly keeping my eyes down on the pavement as I kicked around a pebble.

"Why would he do that?" Luke asks clearly confused just as I am.

"I don't know" I say shaking my head

"I'm really sorry if that's true" he says after a moment of silence.

"Thank you" I say quietly

"Ynow as bad as that is it's not like you have to worry about that or him anymore" he says clearly trying to console me. I look up at him waiting for him to continue.

"He's in hell right? So you have nothing to worry about and even if he wasn't your an angel, your immune to his mind tricks, you don't remember him and you never have to see him again, it's a win win if you think about it. I wouldn't let it get to you it's not like it was your fault" he says with a small smile. I take a moment and think about it and honestly he's right, it isn't my fault I don't know why I'm ashamed of it.

"Thank you" I say quietly as I look up at him.

A moment passes of silence when I watch his gaze shift from my eyes down to my lips for a moment before returning. Wait? Does he like me? Wait. What.

"Jordan's Probably waiting for us" I say breaking this trance he was putting me in.

Luke nods after a second before standing up then turning to me and putting out his hand, helping me up. We walk into the building and up the stairwell back to our room.

"There you are, keep the light off" we hear Jordan say as we enter the room. I close the door behind me and lock it.

I turn to find Jordan sleeping on the only couch in the living room. I watch Luke walk across the small apartment and open one of the door and walk in, I decide to follow him.

I walk in as he turns on a side lamp and there is a simple double bed in the middle with a side table and the lamp.

"Left or right" he says as he pulls his shirt up over his head.

"Left" I say quietly looking down at the floor as I shut the door. I refuse to stare at him then get into the bed and have it be weird.

I quickly walk back out to the living room and grab my tube top off the floor before going into the bathroom and changing. I look at myself in the mirror and examine my figure, something I haven't been able to do since I woke up in heaven. Honestly I haven't really seen myself at all, it's not like there is mirrors up there.

I walk out of the bathroom and back into the bedroom to find Luke is already in the bed waiting for me. I walk around to the left side and slip in trying not to touch him by accident.

"Goodnight" I say quietly and I hear him groan in response as if it was his own way of saying goodnight.