“Somehow, I thought you'd be taller,” he said, leaning back into the familiar territory of haughty bravado.
Anu chuckled. “How rude you are.”
He seemed scandalously delighted, like an adult whose toddler uttered its first curse word. When he spoke again, it was with the kind of condescension the superior bestow upon the eternally dull-witted.
“Your Father has been remiss in your education.”
The insult to their Father burned and made Lucifer want to rip into that perfectly uninteresting face. “Really? Then would you be so kind as to enlighten me, enlighten us?”
He gestured to the angels and archangels present.
“You wouldn't speak to us in that manner if you knew exactly whom you were addressing. That alone grants you a temporary pardon for your disrespect,” Ki said.
Lucifer had a fee
