Lucifer Reborn by Dante King (the reader ebook .TXT) 📗

side of the couch, “for me? Oh my gosh, Luke—you just created all this out of thin air! You’re pretty much a God in here, aren’t you?”

The way she said it made me feel like I was about ten feet tall. Fifteen, maybe. Maddie was right in that building things out of nothing felt amazing, although I felt less like God than someone playing The Sims.

Again, the thought of hell as subspace flickered through my mind. I wondered if this was how Adam and Eve felt listening to the snake in the Garden of Eden, telling them ‘you shall be like gods’.

After all, what was godhood if not the power to make all your wishes come true?

“You’re damn right,” I growled, coming around and giving her a spank on her shapely ass. “No girl of mine stays cooped up in one room. Sorry it’s not a lot—hopefully you won’t have to spend too much time here…”

Maddie shook her head. “It’s perfect,” she giggled, giving me a hug. “I love it! Don’t worry, I’ll keep it nice and clean for you. And if there’s food in that fridge, I’d be happy to make a meal for us the next time you drop by!”

Well, now. That did sound like something to look forward to. “You sure?” I asked, looking around the living room. “It won’t be lonely here waiting all by yourself?”

A touch of worry crossed Maddie’s face. “Well, maybe,” she said, her lips forming a tight little line. “But I’ve always preferred being myself.” She laughed. “Might be a little boring without you, though…”

I had an idea. My pants lay on the floor of the bedroom, discarded in my haste to hook up with Maddie. Reaching into the pockets (it’s never the first one you check, is it?), I pulled out my cell phone. I’d had it on me when I entered Hell, and the battery stood strong at the 90% mark. Thinking even faster, I wiggled my fingers at a corner of the room next to the couch. The strange hitting-the-wall feeling came back, but I had just enough juice left over to stick an outlet on the wall, a slender black brick laying on the floor next to it. I wasn’t sure how electricity worked in a world created entirely by my will, but there had to be something powering the lights and the fridge.

“You can keep this,” I said, handing her the phone. “I don’t know if you like playing games, or reading, but I have a few movies stored on the hard drive. Also there’s a charger there if it gets low, but you should be able to get away with at least a few hours before you need to do that.”

For all I knew, she might need far more. Time worked differently in subspace, after all.

“Oh, awesome!” Maddie’s face lit up as she scrolled through the phone. “I love reading! Honestly, I’ll be able to focus even better without having the Internet to distract me. What have you got on here?”

My eyes widened as I pictured my digital library. “Uh, a whole bunch of titles,” I muttered, suddenly feeling foolish to have given it to her in the first place.

“Let’s see…” Maddie opened the app and scrolled through with her thumb. “No Harry Potter, but that’s alright...oh wow! Some of the girls on these covers are insanely hot…”

“Yeah,” I said, rubbing the back of my neck. “I’m into fantasy too, but I’m sort of into the smutty kind.”

Maddie wiggled her eyebrows as she looked up from the screen. “I love smutty,” she purred, thumbing the first book in a long series open. “I’m sure I’ll have plenty of naughty fantasies in my head the next time you come to see me, Luke…”

“You’re the best,” I said in amazement. “You’ll really be waiting for me at the door, with a home-cooked meal?”

“Absolutely,” Maddie said, beaming. She ran a finger down my bare chest, a fire igniting in her gaze. “And when you come back, we’ll finish what we started in the bedroom…”

Yeah, I thought, feeling guilty all of a sudden. Except I can’t get you off again, Maddie. If I do that, there’s no telling what will happen…

I shook the thought off. All that was in the future; besides, Maddie looked so fucking pleased standing there in nothing but her skirt. It would’ve been a sin to worry her.

“I can’t wait,” I said, giving her a peck on the cheek. “I’ll see you soon, okay?”

She reached down and gave my cock a squeeze. “You’d better. Oh, and Luke…?”

I was already reaching for the subspace. “Yeah?”

“Maybe you better put on some clothes before you head back out there,” she said with a giggle. “Unless you want those monsters jumping on you the same way they did to me…”

Good call! With a gesture, I summoned my robes. Not my grubby IT uniform—that outfit no longer suited me. As a candidate for Archlord of Hell, I ought to look the part. The shimmering black robes Lucifer had adorned me with materialized around me, fitting my body like a tailored suit.

Maddie took one look at me and gasped. “Holy shit, you look amazing! Be careful out there, alright?”

“I will,” I told her, the world already dissolving around me. Whatever happened the next time we met, there was one thing I couldn’t deny about Maddie.

I was really, really looking forward to seeing her again.

 

Chapter 11

“Alright,” I said to Xora, Mareth, and Christina when I was back at the Infernal Academy. “Ready to start the tour?”

Xora nodded past me. “You should start by giving Desdemona your keys,” the rusalka explained as she nodded at the valet. “So that she can park your car—without the difficulties, this time.”

Yeah, I thought. That would be good. “Here you go,”