Can't Fix Cupid

“Next time you wanna get in my body, I’ll want some prep first, Triple X,” he says with a wink. “Don’t wanna catch a guy off-guard and go in dry.”

Oh my gods. Good thing I’m already dead, because I seriously would’ve just died from embarrassment.

He turns back around just as the angel supervisor in charge of the afterlife archway comes striding over. A literal arch angel. Go figure.

The woman is gorgeous. Hair spun like threads of gold, skin as smooth as glass, and huge glowing white wings. She’s so perfect that she doesn’t even look real.

“What are you doing?” she asks, her golden eyes trained on Sev.

The mist churns inside the archway like a pissed off cloud right before it turns bright green and then spits out a lady luck. As soon as she walks out of it, it goes back to being a swirling gray mass inside the forty-foot archway, ready for the next person.

Sev pushes his hand through my back, trying to get me to go closer to the arch. I do, stumbling forward slightly. I don’t even know how I manage to stumble since I don’t have a solid body, but there it is.

“Need to borrow the arch, dove,” Sev tells the angel cheekily. “Won’t take a minute. Pull the cupid lever for me, will ya?”

The angel blinks at him. “Pardon?”

Sev puts his hands into his tight jean pockets. “The archway. She needs to go through it again on cupid settings,” he says, tilting his head at me.

The angel frowns. Somehow, she does this without forming any frown lines. It’s actually pretty freaky. “This is not permissible. She’s already been made into a cupid.”

“Well, she seems to be havin’ a bit of trouble with her love juice. It didn’t take the first time, get it? I’m hoping this will set her right.”

The angel wrinkles her nose at the term love juice before glancing over at me and shaking her head. “If she’s not working properly, then she needs to be re-processed and placed into a different afterlife position. Which means she needs to go back to the end of the line,” she adds, chastising us for being rude line-cutters.

I glance over my shoulder to look, but the line is so ridiculously long, that I can’t even see the end of it.

Sev shakes his head and takes a step forward, getting all up in the angel’s glowy space. He lifts a hand and gently trails it down her arm. I gape at the audacity of him and cringe, waiting to see if she’s gonna smite him or something, but to my surprise, she doesn’t.

“It’s just one little walk-through,” he says quietly, and I can see a little bit of pink Lust escaping his lips as he talks. The angel’s golden eyes go from wary to dazed as he continues petting her. “She wants to spread around desire, dove. She wants her powers to work proper-like so she can make Love Matches. As an angel, wouldn’t you agree that love is one of the most redeeming things about life? The more love there is, the more goodness. So really, this would be helping your cause, too, don’t you agree?”

He’s good, I’ll give him that. He let out such small puffs of Lust that I don’t even think she noticed, but she’s definitely feeling the effects. I can see her heavenly nipples popping right through her toga.

“Help me out here, dove,” Sev whispers huskily as he reaches over and tucks a strand of hair behind her ear. “We cupids and angels work so well together, don’t you think?”

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bsp; I can feel hundreds of eyes at my back watching this entire exchange, and hundreds more probably wondering what the holdup is. But I’m too caught up in watching my boss seduce a damn angel to really pay attention to the crowd anymore.

She bites her lip nervously. “I don’t know. It’s against the rules…”

“But you and me, we know that rules should never go against love, ain’t that right, dove?”

When he palms the back of her neck, she shivers, her golden eyes going hooded. “Alright. But just this once,” she tells him with a shy smile, her eyes locked on his luscious lips. It’s clear by the look on her face that she’s not thinking angelic thoughts at all.

Sev grins so devastatingly that she whimpers. Yep. He made an angel whimper. I’m both appalled and impressed.

“Thanks, dove,” he says with a wink before brushing his lips against the edge of her jaw. “I’ll owe you a favor. Feel free to call it in anytime.”

From the way she blushes, it’s clear what favor they both have in mind.

With another small smile, she turns to look at me, clearing her throat before she speaks. “Alright, well, this hasn’t ever been done before, so I’m not sure what the results will be,” she warns me.

“If this might fix my cupid powers, then I’m all for it,” I assure her.

She nods and glides back over to her tall white podium where she controls the archway. I see her flip down a lever, and the mist turns bubbly pink.

With her out of earshot, I turn to Sev. “Do you really think it was a good idea to seduce an angelic being?” I whisper on a nervous hiss.