Demon Infinity

Hope was startled into her awareness by the sound of people entering her room. Or rather the room she was inhabiting. She materialized a knife into her hand and slipped off her bed, as she pressed her back to the post she felt somone flop onto the bed behind her. "You know I can see you love." Kale's voice lifted from behind her. She ripped the curtain aside to see him longing in the bed his glittering fire eyes making her tension ease, but only a little. She was overwhelmed by him, and if Kale was here-

"Damn, were you going to knife us?" Asher asked, Hope's eyes snapped to her other side where Asher had one arm bent at the elbow as he leaned on her post. He grinned and took her knife from her grasp. She chastised her limp fingers for disobeying her mind.

"Sorry, to intrude." Kale laughed. "But everyone seems to think were on great terms as mates, so to keep up appearences we came to your room."

"You really are all about appearences." Hope said as she looked at them. Asher flopped into oneof the chairs and Kale rolled to his stomach on her sheets.

"I have to be, Asher is mine to look out for." Kale spoke and sent a heated look at Asher. Said demon flushed a dark red and looked away.

"I can handle appearances thank you." Asher snapped.

"You keep saying that when you attend your first council meeting. I went to a few with your parents, and they are brutal. Ive heard rumors about some of the things they had Chris and Lebaux do when they became official slaves." Kale spoke.

"Like what?" Hope demanded, she crawled onto the bed in her haste to know more about her father.

"You'll see at the next meeting." Asher spoke up. "You will be staying right?"

Indecision warred within her, she felt cold at the thought of leaving, but was petrified of staying. She was afraid of being devoured by these two men, and she felt light bloom within her as she looked at the sky, was she suspossed to go up to Heaven? Was she suspossed to meet ehr mother? She wanted to, surely everyone was just hateful because she was an angel. Even Hope had shied away from her mothers voice. Something inside her said fly into the light to find her, another part said the voice was a liar. Hope was muddled with confusion, but one thing was true. She wanted to protect the humans. 

"I want to protect the humans." She spoke.

"I wont hurt them when I'm king."Asher spoke. "I feel liek you've developed misconceptions of us demons."

"Like how you enslaved humans for centuries after the apocalypse?" Hope growled.

"My family didnt do that." Asher leaned forward, his forearms heavy with muscle and tension. "My mother has only been alive near five hundred years, the apocalypse was a thousand years ago, none of the people that raised my mother and her power sister are alive now."

"But-" Hope started to argue.

"Ambrosia actually freed the huans from slavery." Kale spoke. "I remember hearing about it in Hell, the demons were intrigued by her boldness, and her husband who was onher heels like a puppy. She controlled the districts with lust like no mistress ever could. She wants co existance. Always has, and has never done anything to Chris he didnt want or desire. Zeke too, they love Chris, which is so uncommon for demons its unheard of. Lilith and Iram love Lebaux as well. Could you imagine raising a child not wholely yours, loving it as your own?"

Hope clutched her arms in pain," I ruined that for him, my dad wanted to be with Lucas."

"Lucas is just as confused as you are Hope." Asher smiled. "I was thrown off too."

"You should try to give this a shot, were not that bad." Kale spoke. "Sure were demons, and sure we are war monsters, but we arent trying to take you from the humans, we arent trying to take you from your father. Hell I'm sure Ambrosia wants to be around you more than the boys, she wanted a daughter as I heard it. Zeke and Chris got little versios of them. Domeneering little assholes though they are."

"Shut up." Asher flung a cusion at Kale. "Just let us try to be together Hope, I'm so afraid of you running I cant focus on anything."

She felt her heart siezed, was she going to run? Did she give off that air? She was beginning to like them, and steadily her mind was edging closer ot the wall inside them, she closed her eyes and let her mental protection down. Kale's fingers tightened in the sheets she felt the pull. His eyes closed as he brushed against her. His mental touch was all heat and hesitancy. Were they that afraid of her running away?

"Yes." Asher breathed as a flush of his own mental heat brushed her. She suddenly felt surrounded by security, by calm. They were telling her the truth, about everything, she wanted to believe them. And now the truth was laid before her. They wanted her, they wanted her to stay. She nodded and held out her mental hands, they enveloped her and she gasped at the sudden lust that blasted into her. She snapped her eyes open to see them watching her. Asher had moved to the bed as well.

She blinked as she felt her face flush. "Let me show you how serious we are." Asher spoke. She felt them both take one of her hands, and she nodded before she could stop herself. She didnt want to be paranoid anymore, she wanted to belong.