Well, that was easy. Something had to be, right? “Great, when?” I asked.
She grimaced. “Today.”
I beamed. “Excellent. The sooner the better.” Why was no one else excited? Nothing ever went our way, so we needed to be thrilled over the smallest of wins.
“Umm, they will meet you today at their premises.”
“It’s not unusual that people want to meet on their home turf.”
“In Ireland,” Dayna reminded me.
I rubbed my temple. How had I forgotten? Today? Ireland? Was that even possible? It was what? A nine or ten-hour flight? Plus, they were ahead of us. Meaning, even if we left right now, we wouldn’t be there until tomorrow morning. They’d set us an impossible task. Wonderful.
“How is that even possible?”
“Umm, well you have a few friends who can,” Dayna snapped her fingers, “zip-zap, you around.”
I did?
“Family, not friends,” Aunt Sophia added.
I glanced around the room. Who was holding out on me? Which family member could literally materialize from one place to another in the blink of an eye? “Who?”
Hudson growled. “No.”
Sophia smirked. “Uncle Lucie, of course.”
My head dropped back, and I groaned. No good could come of involving Lucifer with the god of death. It felt like I was waving a massive red flag in front of a bull.
“How do we get hold of him?” Rebecca asked.
I side-eyed my aunt, who was happily finishing a crocheted sweater. “I have his email,” I muttered. True—but that wasn’t how I’d contact him.
My aunt arrived before me,confirming my suspicions, directly seated at the table despite her having left after me. I wasn’tcomplaining—I enjoyed the trek up the hill, as it allowed me to gather my thoughts before tangling with the Devil. Despite him clearly not being the big bad, he hadn’t earned his reputation by being a sweetheart, either—even if my giggling aunt had hearts in her eyes for him.
I glanced at the sky, which was darker than normal, and my skin pebbled as the breeze touched my arms. I reached the top of the hill a moment before Dave and Aira. Harry wasn’t here yet, but his transition into this little haven could be a struggle.
“What’s with the moody ambience?” Aira asked as she folded herself into her normal chair. There wasn’t any food today, since it was an emergency meeting.
Lucifer glanced at the sky with a frown. “His presence is being felt.”
“He who?” I snapped. “There’s a lot of ‘he’ being bandied around these days. Please be more specific. And before you say ‘a god,’ again, I implore you to specify.”
Lucifer quirked a brow as Harry shimmered into existence, completing our gang. “Donn. He’s the bringer of night and hoarder of souls. He is affecting the different planes of existence by stretching his power. Gods—any of them—alter the fabric of the universe. Where they go, reality warps until it becomes the new norm. The remnants you are seeing on Earth, the fact our ghostly friend here can affect matter, shows he’s getting stronger.”
“Is this new?” Aira asked.
Lucifer shook his head. “No, I’ve felt Donn getting closer for months. Being the lord of the underworld, I am perhaps a little more sensitive to the changes this particular god brings.”
“Dayna got me a meeting with his special little sect,” I said.
Lucifer’s eyebrows rose. “You’re going to the house of Donn?”
That didn’t sound so bad. Better than a scary sect of doom and death.
Sophia nodded. “But she needs to get there today.”
Lucifer grinned. “Oh, really.”
