“He also never does casual sex. It was just them here until I crashed the place and started making demons. There was an entire realm of mortal women that plenty of angels experimented with. Lucifer didn’t. The first time he had sex was with me and only after he developed feelings.
“Lucifer wouldn’t have had sex with your mother unless he actually loved her. He would have been so careful about children until she knew the truth and agreed to come to Hell where he could protect her and her child. I can tell you this as sure as I know today is Thursday.”
“My grandfather was a Nephilim. The angels didn’t murder him until after he had my mom. I haven’t found the journal how he managed to find her before the angels did, but that was why their paths crossed.”
“And after Lucifer got kidnapped, I’m guessing the angels found her.”
“No, cancer found her.”
“I hate to tell you this, but that’s impossible. People with celestial DNA don’t naturally get sick like that. They can be cursed to get sick like that. Killing Nephilim is a lot more complicated than it used to be. If they do it in the old ways, they can leave hair and DNA behind and they can test that now. A lot of people would welcome finding out angels are real and a lot bad people would abuse that information. They could cursesomeone with illness by just brushing against them in a crowd. I’m guessing that’s what happened with your mom.”
I literally didn’t care I was at a fancy dinner party with the Mother of Demons. I didn’t care we were on course six, it was all cheese, and cheese was my favorite. I threw back my head and just screamed. Watching the strongest person I knew waste away like that was the worst thing that ever happened to me.
And it wasn’tsupposedto happen like that. Mom should be in Hell with me right now talking about how fucked up it was that my magic manifested and I got whisked off to another realm two days before the next season ofBridgertondropped. She should be talking about the brutally hot demons I was hanging out with and she should know my father never abandoned her.
“Get it out,” Lilith said. “It’s not the first time someone ended up screaming at one of my dinner parties.”
“Do you need me?” Nero asked.
“No, she needs to feel this,” Celix said.
I didn’twantto feel this. I was spiraling and now when I spiraled, things tended to explode. I didn’t want to hurt any of these people. I knew Nero couldn’t make any of this okay, but he could fix it so I didn’t blow this entire house up.
“Do it.”
But before Nero could do anything, Kujo yanked me out of my seat and wrapped me up in his massive bear hug. He smelled like sandalwood incense and mahogany and for some reason, that relaxed me a bit.
“Sydney, you don’t need Nero to numb you. Angels killed your mom and kidnapped your dad. You’re allowed to be furious about it, butuseit. You feel that ball of rage in the pit of your stomach that’s threatening to burst out like thatAlienmovie you like to quote? That’s your magic. Grab it by the horns and make it your bitch. Don’t let it take control. Make it doyourbidding.You don’t want to wallow. You want revenge. This is the first step.”
“He’s right,” Celix said. “It’s all connected. Lucifer, Kir, your mom. If we can figure out the threads, they probably all lead to the same person.”
Yeah, it did feel like a face hugger creeped on my face while I was sleeping and now a baby Xenomorph was about to burst out of my chest. But I had a girl crush on Ripley and she made that thing her bitch every time. I could do this.
Kujo gavegreathugs. Who knew? It was like he was keeping my magic and emotions contained, even though I knew that was impossible. I was able to get accustomed to what my magic felt like in a way I hadn’t been before.
“That’s it,” Nero purred. “Once you know what it feels like, you can call on it whenever you want.”
“We’d just need to work on your aim after that, but they are right,” Wrathhog said.
And I did. I connected with that feeling and made friends with it. We got nice and familiar until I knew I could call on her again and then I pushed her down because I didn’t want to hurt anyone here.
“Good girl,” Kujo growled, stroking my hair.
Damn, so that was apparently a new fetish.
“Well, that was interesting,” Lilith said. “In addition to everything else, we need to figure out what kind of angel your great grandparent was because that was alotof power I just felt.”
There were more kinds than archangels and bitch pigeons?
Iwasn’t an incubus, but I could scent when someone was aroused. Sydney had been until Lilith dumped all that about her mom on her. She wanted to go back to Lucifer’s and just be held that night, which we could definitely do.
Kujo insisted on sleeping on the couch again. He didn’t have her wings as an excuse this time. Kujo caught feelings. It was one thing if Nero and me called his mom a bitch and jumped in front of him during a fight. We were arguable good looking demons, but Kujo wasn’t attracted to men. And he needed a woman who would challenge him, which Sydney definitely did.
Kujo had it bad because he wasn’t a hugger and he didn’t snuggle. He also didn’t do relationships, so this was amusing to watch. They’d figure it out. Sydney was into him a bit.
The most amusing part that I couldn’t wait for was going to be Kujo on the potion we were on our way to get. Drunk or high Kujo was alwaysloadsof fun. Defacing portraits of the King of Hell was just par for the course. It was why he only drank when he was around people he trusted, which basically just included Nero and me. And I guess Sydney.
We needed Wrathhog to take us to Lilith’s again. Not because Nero, Kujo, and me couldn’t portal, but I was guessing the reason none of the demons in Hell knew where Lilith had a house was because it was hidden behind some powerful warding. Demons wouldn’t vandalize it, even if she left us, but theywouldturn it into a tourist attraction and leave offerings.
