Chapter 98: You Feel Empty
Chapter 98 – You Feel Empty
She tilted her head, studying him. "That too has become a problem?"
He chuckled dryly, low in his throat. "Yeah. Yeah, that’s the thing." His gaze turned distant, the corners of his mouth twitching like he was chewing on something unspoken. "I don’t know how to enjoy my life without working. I mean, when I left, I knew what I wanted. Sleeping in. Good coffee. Maybe finding a new apartment without infernal rats that try to unionize."
"And did you get those things?"
"I did," he admitted, running a hand through his hair. "I got sleep. And caffeine. And quiet mornings. But now I don’t know what to do."
Celestaria raised a brow. "You’re having sex with mortals though."
He narrowed his eyes. "Except that."
She smirked but said nothing.
"I’m an incubus," he went on, exasperated, "and I haven’t slept with anyone for, what... almost two centuries before this little ’vacation?’ That’s a disgrace. I almost became a laughing stock in the Lust ring territory."
Celestaria sipped her tea as if that was the most normal update to a therapy session.
Lux lifted his glass again and muttered, "Or I already became one."