He looked away and gestured to the second-hand couch. She sat on one end and he took the other, giving her as much space as he could. Damn it.
“You won’t be surprised to hear that your family surpassed our expectations for how far they were willing to go and how much power they wanted. They tried to double-cross a class two demon, which is about as stupid as you can get. Of course, the demon was planning on double-crossing them too.”
“Class two?”
“Usually only class three demons bother coming to this realm. They don’t have enough power in their world to do what they want to, so they figure they can come here, where they’re more powerful than the majority. It rarely works out for them, which means it’s usually only the stupider ones who try. Somehow your mother got in contact with this c
