Daughter of Flames: A Mayhem of Magic World Story (A Girl and Her Hellhounds Book 1) by Nicole Zoltack

Author:Nicole Zoltack [Zoltack, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-13T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

The longer I stand here, the more frustrated I feel, the more I just want to fight someone, to hit or kick or punch. I need to find some kind of outlet for my stress.

“Come on, Demonfang, Shadechomp,” I call even though they’re right beside me. “Let’s go and see if we can’t find an isolated spot here.”

We walk. The dogs have fun racing around me, nipping at each other and at my heels, and I almost fall a few times from their antics, but they’re happy.

At least someone is because I’m as furious as furious can be.

How? How can it be that Lucifer stating that he will leave Bethlehem alone expand to include all demons? He hasn’t touched us all, clearly, or else Clarissa’s soul would be marked.

Who knows? Maybe the act that Lucifer demanded of her to keep Bethlehem safe caused her soul to tip over to the dark side.

Then again, her reason behind her making the deal—to save all of the lives and souls of those within her city forevermore—might have kept her soul bounding toward an ascent to Heaven after she passes.

“All demons have had their souls touched by me,” Lucifer told me, but he lies all the time. All the time. Did he lie now? Or maybe merely touching a demon’s soul doesn’t give him control over them? Or maybe her angel side shielded her from Lucifer. Or maybe he only touches the souls of pure demons and not half-breeds?

I don’t know, and that’s frustrating more than anything else. There’s so much I don’t know. Too much. Is that why Lucifer doesn’t have any of his children go to the demon academy? Because he wants to keep us ignorant? It’s not as if he teaches us how to do things. We have to figure everything out on our own. He’s not an absentee father, but he’s not a nurturing one, either, of course. He’s not about praise or gratitude or anything like that. Lucifer is all about himself and nothing else. Well, himself and his power.

It’s not as if I can ask him for answers. He’ll lie to me or manipulate me or gaslight me. The demon is incapable of talking like a sane, levelheaded person unless he wants to, and he doesn’t ever. Not unless he’s sweet-talking some poor fool into making a deal with him.

I will say that I noticed Clarissa deliberately did not state what Lucifer asked of her, the deed she had to do so that Lucifer would leave Bethlehem forevermore. It had to have been something major, though, something extraordinary. Even I can feel the allure to Bethlehem.

My gut says Clarissa probably had to kill someone. Who knows who, though, because Lucifer should be able to kill anyone he wants. Why make a vow—not even a deal—for her to kill someone for him? It must have been someone Lucifer didn’t want to have to deal with. Hmm. How long ago did this all go down? Maybe I could figure out who she might’ve killed.

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