(Authors note: Trigger Warning. Graphic sexual content, violence, rape. Read at own risk.)
Chapter 15: Crisis of Faith
"Come back to me, my little hedonist." His voice was the smooth rich flavor of mulled wine as it slid down my body as I opened my eyes and truly focused for the first time in what felt like days. Lucifer was wearing my favorite face; that of British actor Tom Ellis, even though I knew that was not his real face, it made me smile. It was a very pretty face, I reasoned. But, something seemed odd. "There's my girl."
"Lucifer?" My voice was raw and little shaky. I was sore and achy all over and hyperaroused to a level that I couldn't ever recall being before. "What's happened to me?" I tried to keep my voice from shaking, my brain giving me images of being bent down before the inhuman body of a bull-headed creature. It felt like some depraved sex dream.
"It wasn't," he said seriously, reading my mind. For the first time, knowing that he could calmed me. It was good to not to have to explain the chaos in my head. "Dionysus came to see to you on my request. I wasn't sure how much of your humanity or even your control would remain once you set foot here. You are the sort of priestess that fertility deities would go to war for."
"And are they?" I felt lucid enough to be worried. "Going to go to war over me?"
"Not at the moment. We have struck an accord." He wasn't coming closer. He wasn't touching me. He wasn't changing into his usual face that he wore for me. He wouldn't meet my eyes. Something inside me broke a little at his cold indifference. "It is hardly indifference," he said, his eyes narrowing a bit, and his lip curling. "It is path we must now follow should we wish to remain as we are. For you to be safe." He dragged me roughly to him, my overly volumptuous, nude curves against the expensive cloth of the custom suit he wore. I could feel his erection, but he looked so frigid, despite the heat emanating from his body. I struggled in his arms a little, uncertain how to read this new, colder, dangerous feeling Lucifer.
"Hey, Luci," I said with fractured nonchalance and an awkward smile. "Hey, what's this all about, huh?" I pulled a little on the vice his arms made around me. "Lucifer..."
"You are so trusting," he said almost sadly, his fingertips caressing my face as he held me immobile to him. His sapphire eyes wandered over my features as if he might need to memorize them, as if this might be the final moment he got to behold me. "So innocent," his lips twisted almost cruelly, as he gripped my jaw in his hands and looked deep into my wide, frightened eyes, his own full with a loathing that seemed directed both at myself and yet turned disturbingly inwards, as he ran his hand from my jawbone to my throat. "You always forget that you summoned the Devil himself, Gwendolyn," he chided sadly. "That you called him to your bedroom, into your circle, and you offered him your body. Freely. Willingly. Were you Christian or Jewish you would spend an eternity in my tender care for these choices. You would sacrifice your eternal soul for just a little pleasure..."
I didn't recoil from him, but I was so confused at this sudden shift of character. "Lucifer... you know I don't believe all the propaganda about you," I reminded him.
"You don't have to believe in the Devil," he said, squeezing almost too tight on my neck. I struggled to breathe under his pressing fingers. "He believes in you."