Chapter 7

I woke up to the sensation of someone's fingers trailing down my arm and slowly became aware of the warmth that lay next to me. I let out a sigh of content, snuggling more into the body, trying to absorb all the warmth that came from them.

"Come on, Baby girl. Let's get you some breakfast." I hear Lucien's familiar voice murmur softly.

"No." I grumble wrapping my arms around his large torso and squeezing him tightly.

He lets out a soft chuckle.

"You're going to hurt your new best friend's feelings if you don't. Salem just spent the past 2 and a half hours making you a delicious breakfast." he tells me and I open my eyes.

"Is that what he called me? Best friend?" I ask trying to conceal the hopefulness in my voice and he chuckles.

"That's what you called him." he says and I l try not to frown.

"Last night is such a blur. I don't remember much at all." I mumble.

"Don't worry, I made sure you were safe the whole night. Even took care of you after you vomited all over my bathroom floor." he says proudly.

"Thank you." I say blushing with embarrassment.

"I'm just glad you had fun." he says with a smile.

A sudden loud pounding on the door as me jumping that I no doubt would have fallen off the bed if Lucien hadn't had his arm around me.

"Who is it?" Lucien hisses out annoyed as he gently strokes my shoulder.

"We need to talk." Levi's voice states from the other side making Lucien frowns.

"I'll be down in a minute." he replies.

"Come now, it shouldn't wait." Levi says.

"I'll see you in the kitchen, okay?" Lucien says turning to me and I nod my head.

I watch as he quickly gets up and pulls some sweatpants over his briefs before heading out of the room.

I let out a soft sigh before getting up to see I'm wearing one of Lucien's shirts before making my way to the pile of bags in the corner of the room.

I rummage through, grabbing everything I need before quickly jumping in the shower and getting ready for the day.

I made my way down the stairs and into the kitchen to see Salem, Beau and Crimson all sitting around.

"Good morning, Kitten!" Crimson greets as soon as she sees me step in.

Salem and Beau turn and both smile at me.

"Come sit, I'll get a plate ready for you." Salem says and I nod my head as I go and sit in between Beau and Crimson.

"How are you feeling?" Beau asks and I grin.

"Great! Thank you." I say and he smiles and nods his head.

"Do you remember last night?" Crimson asks and I shake my head.

"Well, you had a lot of fun I can assure you and your dancing all though very sensual is amazing! I had no idea you could move like that!" she says, and I blush.

"Thanks." I say and she smirks.

"No, thank you." she says and shoots me a wink.

"Here you go, I wasn't sure what you liked so it's a bit of everything." Salem says as he sets a large plate down in front of me.

"Wow this smell and looks amazing!" I say taking in the large assortment.

"Try the almond croissant, they are to die for." Crimson says and I do as she says and pick it up and take a bite.

Within seconds I'm moaning at the taste.

"This is heaven." I say after and she grins.

"Right!" she says.

By the time I was done eating, it was still us three and Lucien still had yet to make an appearance.

"Is everything alright?" I ask after sipping the coffee Salem had made me.

Salem and Crimson both looked at Beau so I turned to him for the answer.

"Of course, why do you think something is wrong?" he replies, and I shrug.

"I just got that impression with Levi needing Lucien so quickly and neither them or Damian are around." I explain and he nods his head in understanding.

"They just have some business they had to attend to. Now how would you feel about starting to learn about your new gifts?" he says, and I smile.

"I think that would be a great idea." I reply and he smiles.

"Great, come along." he says grabbing my hand and leading me out of the kitchen.

With Crimson and Salem joining along we all went outside and sat down on the patio furniture.

"Alright, so to start with, although we know which gods have gifted you, we need you to tell us exactly what they gifted you." Beau says and I bite my lip.

"Alright well, Aphrodite said she gifted me with her beauty, love and desire. Eros said he gifted me with his sex, lust and passionate desire, including irresistible feelings and impulses by the use of my eyes and mind. Lastly, Peitho gifted me with her persuasion and seduction." I tell them as I recalled the exact memory.

They all look at me with wide shocked eyes, before turning and look between one another.

As if having their own private conversation, I sat there awkwardly and waited for them to say something and finally Beau cleared his throat.

"Excuse me." he says quickly before getting up and rushing inside making me frown.

"Did I do something wrong?" I ask feeling a pang in my chest.

Crimson quickly got up and pulled me into her arms.

"Of course not, Kitten! He just wasn't prepared for such an answer. You continue to pull us out of our minds with your uniqueness. No one could have expected or prepared for it and it's harder for him being a descendant of Athena. This goes so behind his wisdom, it's driving him mad." she explains as she softly stroked my hair.

"Descendant of Athena?" I ask.