Chapter 5

Erebus POV

Lucian’s arm is slung over my shoulder as I try to guide him up the mansion stairs.

He keeps giggling loudly like a schoolgirl.

I swear the older he gets the more annoying he becomes.

Losing his footing he trips up three stairs and I lose my grip around his waist.

With a giant thud he hits the floor and then slides down the stairs on his belly, his chin hitting each one on the way down.

Laying at the bottom of the stairs he is chuckling like an idiot.

“Why didn’t you invite me to your twenty-first birthday party,”

his words slur as he looks up at me with hurt in his eyes.

Pulling him to his feet, I throw him over my shoulder and carry him back up the stairs.

“Because you were fourteen,”

I say through gritted teeth.

“Right, right…”

he mumbles still hanging upside down over my shoulder.

“Did you see that bartender?

She was hot as fuck.”

I can feel a growl building in the b