Lucifer shot a frown at Hudson. I glanced between the two of them. “What was that look?”
Hudson’s gaze dropped. “I don’t know what you mean.”
I folded my arms and leaned back. “Sure you don’t.”
“Let’s table your rocky relationship for now. What we need to understand is what just happened with Donn,” Abaddon said.
Lucifer stared at the wall like it held all the answers, and Hudson refused to meet my eyes. What on earth was happening?
“I accepted some of Donn’s power,” I muttered.
Lucifer’s and Hudson’s heads snapped to me. I raised a brow at their audacity when they were keeping secrets. Okay, okay, I might be hiding dates with a god, but still.Try me. I fucking dare you both.
“So now you’re in debt to him?” Abbadon ground out as he drummed his fingers on the dining table. “He won’t like this.”
“Who?”Please be weird and be talking about yourself in the third person. Please, please, please, don’t let “he” betheGod.
“Your grandfather.”
Damn it.
Sophia’s hand paused in her rapid crocheting before resuming with a smile, like she had just realized something.
“I don’t see either of you turning up to help us. No, the only being willing to even discuss some kind of support is?—”
“The same one causing the issue,” my father cut me off.
My mouth snapped shut.
Dayna snorted. “If my mother hadn’t enlisted Donn, she would have found somebody else, and they might not have been as cordial. At least give the man his due; he’s not roaring across the world, hellbent on destruction.”
“Poor choice of words,” Lucifer muttered. “I resent my realm being used as a crutch for metaphors.”
“Then stop being so cliché,” Sebastian said with a bright smile.
“Cora still hasn’t mentioned what she promised him,” Hudson said.
“Now, or previously?” I taunted.
“Pick one,” he growled.
I’d long ago stopped being afraid of the big bad wolf, right around the time I realized I was typically the bigger, badder monster in the room.
“You pick one, Principal. Why are you and my uncle avoiding each other’s gaze like it’s a team sport?”
Hudson’s jaw clenched, and Lucifer held his hands up. “This isn’t my secret to tell.”
“Because you can’t, or won’t?” I wondered.
“Can’t.”
Huh, so my mate made a deal with Lucifer and had enough forethought to put an NDA in place.
“Hash this out later. My time is valuable,” Abaddon snapped.
“Then be on your way. No one invited you.”
“No, but you needed me.”
