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I narrow my eyes in contempt. It isn’t until he trusts that I’ll keep those three little words to myself that he withdraws his hand.
With one last peck to my lips, he disappears into the Throne room.
Chapter 46
The Demon
Despite my heart feeling as though it is engulfed in flames.
Despite the terror ripping through me.
Despite two hundred years of utter loathing.
I walk into the Throne room revealing nothing but the smirk I left Briar with.
“I want to say I’m shocked to see you, but that would be a lie.”Although, it’s really not.
Lucifer sits stiffly in his throne with Ada half hidden behind it. They’re both drenched in blood, but from what I can tell, not from either of them.
The Devil catches my gaze before returning it to theAngelbefore us. A smug grin, similar to my own, plays on the face of a man I planned on never seeing again. He stands a healthy distance from the dais with his hands behind his back.
“Son.”
My eyes narrow on the now-stranger. In every way, other than the grey of his hair, he looks like me. The navy of his eyes, the straight slope of his nose, even the way his beard is trimmed enclosing around a mouth that knows nothing other than evil.
My hand clenches the handle of my sword with a strangling grip.
Without breaking our stare, I nudge my head behind me to the door.
“Ada, leave.”
My father tsks. “Not so fast. I was just preparing to say hello, Lynx.”
I nearly wince at my own name slithering off the tongue of a serpent.
“She doesn’t care to greet you. Ada, leave.”
The soft patter of her feet behind me tells me she listens. I can nearly feel the relief from Lucifer as she disappears and joins Briar.
“You know, I always knew you would end up in Hell, son. It was very telling, well before you took your own father’s life.”
“Father?!”Without warning, a scoff escapes me. “You were a drunk that knocked up a woman who deserved so much more than you. You’re half the reason my sister died. It baffles me how a monster like you can end up in Heaven.”
He quirks a dark brow. “Oh, and you think it should have been you to end up there?”
Now I laugh. “No, I’m right where I belong.”
He creeps forward. “Mmm. Yes, yes you are.”
His approach forces Lucifer to his feet.
An evil creature disguised by all white feigning to be an angel, that’s what he is.
I see right through him.
“What do you want?”
“Well, you stole something that wasn’t yours and now you owe the Gods.”
