Chapter 47

Alex's POV

I had never been happier to get out of a restaurant than I had been today, which sent shivers down my spine. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn't be stressing out over a waitress, let alone someone working at a place that seemed so homely; But these weren't normal circumstances, Jack had informed me of who Gloria is and she scared the shit out of me if he was right.

"A demon of love? That's a new one, even for Jack," I said to myself as I continued down the road heading south, I needed a bit of time to myself to process what he had told me through our link. Apparently, there was a demon for anything and everything, ranging from something as simple as Joy and Bliss to something as complicated as love and that wasn't something I was going to take lightly.

'He did mention to not stress over it, that this would be something that he would take care of, didn't he?' Alexis said, trying to help me process what I physically couldn't comprehend.

"He did, but that's not what's worrying me. He said he was going to try and divert her attention from us to a friend of his, Milo, I think was the name he gave me. The thing I don't understand is why Jack would think he could distract a demon of love from us, and more specifically why?"

'Maybe we underestimated his cunning, maybe he's scared of this "Gloria" and doesn't want her to destroy the connection between us and Jake. Only time will tell, hun.'

As I continued down the road, I pulled into a gas station to top off my tank before heading inside. I headed towards the cooler and grabbed a couple of Gatorades, and a 12 pack of Coke Zero for Jakey, before heading to the counter.

"Long day?"

"You don't know half of it," I said through a chuckle, before handing the cashier a 20 to pay for my stuff.

"I think I just might, relationship troubles?"

"You could say that more so just panicking over something I shouldn't be but I can't stop thinking about it," I said, getting a chilling vibe from the cashier as I met her gaze, there wasn't anyone else in the store and her eyes glistened with a fiery glow.

"I understand, I'm still working out some troubles between me and my boyfriend, we both fell for someone but are trying to find a way to ask him to join us without making him feel like we're trying to restrict him. One of those: We love you, but don't know how to say it, type things," She said, her look shifting to a more comforting one, she knew I was on edge and didn't want me to be panicking and I genuinely appreciated that.

"Well, if there's anything I've learned about love over the last month or so, that saying of 'If you love something let it free' is very true, but not enough people understand that, nor know how to interpret it," I said before shaking her hand and walking out back towards my car, I put the hose back and settled back in my car before heading out back onto the road towards the highway.

'She seemed nice, a little off-putting, but nice'

"Yeah, reminds me of Ma and Pa, you know, before the alcohol," I said through a bittersweet laugh, remembering the days of my youth when my parents would drown their depression in alcohol, only to turn it around and blame me and my older brother for their situations.

'Just remember this, if nothing else only this, you are not your past and you are not your traumas. You got dealt a bad had as a child, and you came out of it stronger. Never forget that.'

"Thank you, Alexis," I said as we continued on the highway, heading back towards the pack as I still had some things to take care of before going to meet up with Jake.

Gloria's POV

I finished up my shift before going back to my car and getting a call from Lucy, I wasn't too surprised albeit curious as to why.

"Lucy, Baby, how's it hanging? What's going on down in the underworld?"

"Oh you know, a little dark, a little gloomy, and whaddya know full of jackasses, but what're ya gonna do. Listen, I know you've taken an interest in Jacke and Alex, and that's all well and good. But I think I may have finally found your match, come swing by when you get the chance, he's a curious one and I believe you two would be just as threatening together as Jake and Jack, maybe even more so," He said, and that got me purring, he had known that I've grown tired of walking this earth alone just as Jack had before me, and Lucy himself before both of us.

"Sounds like a plan, daddy, I'll swing by later today and we can catch up, just like the good old days."

"Glory, baby, you know I love you, but if you want this boy, our little shindigs have gotta stop. Just keep that in mind, he's a loyal one, and won't settle for incompetence," He said before hanging up, and I got a new feeling, pride in someone other than myself. If it weren't for the fact that I was still in public, I may have audibly moaned at the promise of someone who could make Lucy believe we'd work well together.

"Darling Lucy, you have no idea what kind of cat you just took out of the box," I said before flooring it back home to get situated before returning down under, full of a new kind of motivation that I hadn't felt, let alone sensed, in eons.