"I don't know what he's like," Eligor said. "I've never met him." He didn't add how annoyed he was at the fact that, in all the years he'd babysat the man's trips to the palace, he'd never once been invited inside to meet the Eternal Emperor.
Lucifer stared over his shoulder at the letter Eligor had put on the dresser. Eligor prayed Lucifer was so fuzzy from the alcohol he'd think he'd left it there himself.
"It was all a lie," Lucifer said. "Always. I knew that, but I guess I just needed him to tell me straight to my face to accept the truth."
Eligor did not dare ask him what truth. You mean there was a worse truth than having his own father elevate the woman who had ripped out his heart to be his equal?
Lucifer pressed his hands upon his thighs to push himself out of the chair and st
