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“I am so sorry!” Gwen said for who know how many times after everyone recovered from her electric shock.
It was because Stolas’ two daughters, Loona and Octavia along with Onyx, Orion’s girlfriend, had groped her to see if her breasts were real.
Right now, she was standing in front of the couch where Stolas, Blitzø, Orion and the girls were sitting on to recover from the shock. Francesco had given them healing potions to recover faster because, according to him, Gwen’s lightning was powerful compared to normal lightning. Belial helped by healing Blitzø, Loona and Onyx since they were ordinary hellborn and the lightning did a number on them.
Stolas immediately shook his head, “Do not apologize Gwen! You were defending yourself.”
He turned to the three girl and frowned, “These three should be the ones apologizing!”
Loona crossed her arms, Octavia was glaring at her with the same jealous fury and Onyx was the only one who showed any sort of remorse with her ear drooping.
“Girls!” Stolas’ sharp voice made them flinch, “What were you thinking?! Loona I can see”-“Hey!” the hellhound snarled- “But Via! You know better! And Onyx, I do not know you that much, but this seems out character!”
A soft whine exacted the girl’s snout, “I’m sorry...”
Octavia clicked her beak and crossed her arms while spoke with grit in her voice.
“Sorry I wanted to see if her tits were real.”
“Loona!”
Blitzø laughed loudly, he was being healed by Belial nearby when he heard that. Once the last of the shocks were out of his system, he ran to his daughter who was still growling.
“Are they real?” he asked, much to Stolas’ horror.
“Blitzø-"
“They are,” Loona confirmed.
Gwen blushed and wrapped her arms around her ample bust. Belial though had a very intrigued look.
“No fucking fair...” Octavia grumbled and looked down at her small chest, “The bitch who laid my egg had boobs how come I didn’t get any?!”
Orion snorted and was swatted on the head by Stolas who then looked at Octavia in disbelief.
“Via! I thought you were ace!”
The girl glared at him, “I am! But that doesn't mean I didn’t want bigger boobs!” she patted her chest and her feathers puffed in frustration, “It’s not fair!”
Stolas glared at the two girls and turned to Gwen who was still blushing, “I am so sorry Gwen! I promise my daughters and son’s girlfriend are not like this!”
The yellow canary sighed softly, “It’s fine... sadly I’m used to it.”
“You shouldn't Sorella...” Francesco mumbled.
Belial shrugged and approached Gwen, “Hey look at the bright side, if they didn’t act like that, that means they hate you!”
The canary gave a small smile, that was a relief. Maybe this forced marriage wasn’t so bad after all. No sooner had she thought that, Belial poked her chest with great fascination.
“They are real!” he said with a big smile.
Stolas facepalmed, his brother is an idiot!
Gwen’s feathers flared up and very calmly placed a palm on his chest. Before Belial could ask why, there was a soft crackle and soon, he was being zapped with 10,000 volts of electricity.
He screamed and spasmed before Gwen stopped and then he fell.
“That was 10,000 volts!” she growled, “next time I’ll make it 50,000!”
Belial twitched and sizzled from the shocks, he chocked out, “Worth it....”
Stolas growled but he forced out a smile and stood up, “Let us eat! The food must be getting cold!”
Blitzø knew that strained smile, he saw it when they were teenagers, it was his ‘I want to get out of this shitshow and eat something god damnit’ smile so he stood up from the arm rest he was sitting on.
“He’s right!” he yelled, “I skipped lunch for this meal now lets go!”
Everyone sighed, and they followed Stolas to the dining room, stepping over Belial’s sizzling form doing so.
X
The dinner spread was laid out with deliberate precision. The meal that was meant for duke Zepar was arranged where it was a second choice while the food for Gwen was presented front and center. Stolas knew that Zepar was an egotistical bastard who loved to talk about his accomplishments and his fascination for Lilith (he was said to be the only one of the Goetia who revered that woman as much as he revered Lucifer) and knew that he would have thrown a fit if the foods meant for him were a second choice. Stolas looking forward to that but he was used to not having things his way.
Gwen’s food was an array of grilled fish and salads along with pastas. It wasn’t much since none of Stolas’ servants had no experience in making pesco-vegetarian meals but Gwen’s smiling face showed that at least she was happy.
As she and her brother helped themselves to the lemon grilled fish and side salad, Blitzø helped himself to the large plate of meats.
The meat was tender, juicy and full of flavor. It melted in Blitzø's mouth the moment he tore into it and he let out a pleasured moan as the juices slid down his throat.
“I love you Stolas!” he said before he grabbed another slab of the brisket on his plate.
Stolas rolled his eyes and cut his fish into small pieces, “You said that when you sat down.”
“And I meant it!”
The prince chuckled and cut his own meat into smaller pieces.
Since Duke Zepar was not attending, he had been worried about the meat he had prepared for dinner. Blitzø had a large appetite, but this much meat would be too much, but Stolas remembered something important.
Loona and Onyx were here as well.
Two hellhounds, the products of Gluttony, with ravenous appetites who could eat their weight in food.
Loona had no shame and she was wolfing down her second helping of meats.
Onyx tried her best to show restraint since she was a guest, but she couldn’t help herself from enjoying her third beef rib. Stolas instructed a nearby servant to pack up some of the meat that was still in the kitchens for Onyx to take home since she lived alone.
“So....” Stolas spoke to Gwen, “You grew up in topside?”
Gwen ate her fish and nodded, “Yup! My mom wanted a fresh start after dumping father so she brought me to topside. It wasn’t a permanent thing but I learned a lot from it.”
Stolas made a amused sound and looked at Belial who just joined them at the table, he was sitting next to Gwen and was still covered in soot from being shocked. He cleared his throat to get his attention, when Belial turned his head to him, Stolas made a gesture that said that he needed to ask the questions since he's the husband not him.
Belial wanted to whine but Stolas used a steak knife to stab his prime rib, the red juices oozed out of the meat which made the king gulp. Stolas' fiancé is an assassin and a damn good one; Stolas is a pacifist, but he could be violent if he wanted to be. And there’s no doubt Blitzø taught him a few things to protect himself. Also judging from the very pissed off look in Stolas’ eyes, he will use that serrated knife to stab his brother if he didn’t initiate conversation.
The king cleared his throat and looked at the canary, “Why the living realm?”
Gwen hummed and cut her fish, “The Queens love the lifestyles of human so they tend to go there from time to time. My mom wanted me to have a normal life so I spent my childhood up there. I came back to hell when I was eleven and went to college on topside.”
“That’s a thing?” Orion muttered which made Octavia chuckled.
Stolas shot his son a look, “Rion...”
The younger twin shrugged and ate his salad, “Just asking.”
“He’s got a point,” Octavia said, “Never heard of any demon wanting to go to college.”
“Via...”
Gwen laughed a bit, “It’s fine, it’s fine, I get it, not everyone is a fan of college. I only went to for the experience, but I did get a degree in business and not a weird degree that has nothing to do with the real world.”
The twins gave their dad smug looks and went back to their meals.
Belial chuckled at their antics and turned his attention back to Gwen, “A business degree huh? What did you do with it?”
“I own an insurance company,” she answered, “Humans get sick so easily and they can barely afford medical care. That's where I come in! I actually cover everything and get rich from it.”
Blitzø, who was wolfing down a slow cooked brisket, looked at her with big eyes, “Is that how it works?”
“Kind of but its soooo complicated, you have to memorize lord of words and numbers-”
“Fuck that!” Blitzø yelled and went back to his meal.
Gwen huffed, “Wish I could, I hate numbers.”
“Anything that's not fuckable you hate Sorella,” Francesco muttered as he decided to take a bit of cooked meat, even though he was a vegetarian himself, he did eat cooked meat from time to time.
Gwen gave her brother a glare and gave him a small pinch at the back of his arm, sending a small electric shock.
“Ow!”
“Shut it Fran, we’re guests at someone home!”
Stolas let out a small laugh, “Oh don’t worry, I have heard worse from Blitzø.”
The imp next to him huffed, “You’ve said worse Stols, I swear to fuck I hear bleeps from you!”
Octavia and Orion snorted, they thought that too whenever they would hear their dad say the raunchiest of things to Blitzø. They didn't want to, but they always had the worst luck of walking in on him doing that in his study, his chambers or in the garden. No matter how hard they tried, they always walked in when Stolas said something so nasty that they could hear a censor bleep.
Stolas sputtered, “I have never-”
“Yes you have stolas,” Loona smirked, “Don’t deny it, I think everyone in this palace has heard your shit.”
Pringles, the ever loyal butler who was standing against the wall by the door, coughed and a small blush appeared on his red face. He was the unwilling witness to the prince’s word since he had to hold the rotary phone when Stolas made those calls.
Stolas grumbled but Gwen began to laugh.
It wasn’t the mocking laugh he had heard many times, it was loud belly laugh that would hurt later.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” she said in a fit of giggles, “I needed that laugh!”
She has a pretty laugh, Belial thought to himself before he shook his head. He was not going to think about that! She may look pretty and, yes, she was obviously his type, Belial was not going to think anything that might make him feel attracted to his wife! This was a forced marriage damnit!
Gwen stopped laughing and looked at Belial, “Anyway, enough about me Belial. What about you? Since I’m stuck with you, I need to know who my husband is.”
Belial made a small growl but he spoke, “I collect stamps.”
“No you don’t,” Stolas muttered.
“Shut up.”
That surprised Gwen and she sighed, “Stamps? You are old.”
Belial made a noise and looked at her, “I am not old!”
“Brother, you’re fifty-one,” Stolas said matter of fact, “That is for old for a twenty-five-year-old.”
That comment made the king turn his head to his little brother, feeling betrayed, “Stolas why?!”
Stolas said nothing and went back to his meal, Blitzø looked at him and whispered, "He's that old?"
“You know we don't age like normal demons.”
“Still though...”
“I can hear you!”
Gwen and Francesco looked at each other and smiled; they had known that Stolas’ family was rather unconventional but since they made it clear that they wanted to be left alone, the two siblings knew nothing about them.
Belial huffed and ate his food, “I have other hobbies....”
The dinner continued in a comfortable silence. Onyx had a bit of meat on her cheek, Orion gently wiped it off which made her blush and smile. Octavia and Loona were still looking at Gwen who gave them glares in return, it wasn’t a mean glare, but it was a small warning. Stolas put more meat on Blitzø's plate with a smile, he wanted to spoil his fiancé with ball the things the imp never got to enjoy growing up.
Soon the dinner was over, and everyone went to Stolas’ drawing room for coffee. The adult were laughing while the teenagers and Loona were sitting at a corner.
“You like ‘F*ck You Dad!’ too?” Octavia asked Francesco with a smile.
The parrot nodded and sipped his coffee, “I went to their concerts when they were just an indie band. I even met the singer, she's so wholesome!”
Both Octavia and Orion looked at each other and smiled.
“Lucky!” the girl groaned, “We were never allowed to go!”
Francesco pulled out his phone and pulled up a picture of him and a woman who lived in the Envy ring, she was the singer of ‘F*ck You Dad!’, “She one of the few singers I like because she actually uses different themes for her songs. I was so angry that the band broke up because of Verosika.”
“Don’t remind us,” Orion growled, “That bitch ruins everything she touches.”
Loona and Onyx nodded in agreement; Loona had very unpleasant memories of that succubus while Onyx had stories of her being a complete diva when she would show up at the mall she works at.
“Anyway, I have some of their old CDs, I can let you borrow them if you want,” Francesco said with a small smile.
The twins smiled but Orion noticed something; the parrot was smiling at Via and she was smiling a little bit too brightly. He hummed in amusement and let it slide, for now.
Stolas though, noticed.
He noticed the way Franceso looked at his Octavia. And Via was looking at him with an innocent smile, too innocent.
Something within the prince bubbled slowly.
He felt this way when Orion started bringing Onyx to the palace more and more.
He then saw Orion looking at him and watched as his boy, his only boy, wrapped his arm around Onyx.
No...
Was Stolas going to lose Octavia the same way he lost Orion?!