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“You taste of pig and lies.” He leaned in, his face inches from mine. “I can smell them on you, Liam. Don't make this harder on yourself.”
The grip on my throat eased, and I crumpled to the ground, gasping for air. Lucifer continued to pace before me, a sense of malevolence radiating off him.
“Did you find him?” He asked carefully.
“I did,” I stroked my throat as I struggled to stand.
“You kneel!” He pointed at the ground and my body immediately fell to its knees before him. I bit back a curse as I was forced to stare up at him.
“Did you mention me?”
“I did,” I snarled.
“And what did my dear old friend say.”
“He told me to tell you to go fuck yourself.”
Lucifer snarled, and I doubled over as the pain of my intestines being squeezed was overwhelming.
“Is that right?”
“Fuck you,” I spat out more blood onto his shoes.
The pain in my insides intensified and I cried out, falling to my side. Lucifer grinned. “I think what you’re not realizing, biker, is that I can tear your guts out and still keep you alive to feel every ounce of pain your…higher being… has so proudly allowed you to feel. What a gift, isn’t it? To feel.”
He snarled the words as I felt my guts twist inside of me. “Kill me. I don’t care.”
Lucifer grinned. “Ohhh I know you don’t. That’s why it’s so much fun. You don’t care about yourself but you care about everyone around you. And hurting them is true pain for you isn’t it.
I bit back a retort as I tried to crawl away from him, still attempting to flee. To do something. Could I pray?
Lucifer placed a shoe on my head, holding me against the concrete. “Now tell me about the raven.”
I froze, grateful he couldn't see my face. I had to protect her at all costs. “She wasn’t there.”
“What?” He gripped me by my hair and hauled me up in the air as if I were some ragged doll. “What do you mean she wasn’t there?”
“I didn’t see her there.”
“Then go back in and find out where she is!”
“I doubt Serge will let me in there again.”
He yanked me up against the wall bringing his face to mine. “Do you think I give a fuck?”
“No. I don’t.”
“You have one job. Find her!” He released me and I fell to the ground, scrambling until my back was pressed against the wall.
It was then I realized that he was desperate, and it was showing. He couldn’t go where I could, it’s why he’d enslaved me in this stupid contract. But I also remembered my wife at that moment. Her Catholic upbringing and her belief in angels. I could see her sitting on the couch telling me about something she had read. I tried as hard as I could to remember it. Something told me it was important.
What the hell was it?
I thought long and hard until it slowly came to fruition.Free-will. God had given humans free will and the angels hated us for it. And there was one in particular, that with all his power and beauty, couldn’t quite get his grasp on humanity’s free will. He could corrupt it, he could tempt it, but we still had the choice.
“What if I tell you I won’t do it?”
Lucifer's eyes flared with anger, frustration evident in the clenching of his jaw. "You think you have a choice in this, biker?" he sneered.
