That was huge.“Rox?—”
“I’m fine.”
She wasn’t, but I didn’t push.
“It was actually Uma who spoke to Lucifer.She told me where his head was at with all of this.She’s worried about you too.”
“Sure she is.”
“She was scared for you, Urs, genuinely.She could barely be held back while you were fighting in that arena.And I don’t know what to tell you, other than Lucifer’s calm about the loss.He’s furious with the angels, though, in a way I haven’t seen him in forever.”
“So what happens now?”I said and sipped my beer.I’d have to go back and face everyone sooner or later.
“The knights really want to talk to you.They’re more than a little uneasy over what happened.”
I frowned.“Silas betrayed all of us, they saw it with their own eyes.He surrendered when we would have won.He obviously didn’t even have the guts to tell the knights what he had planned.”
“I don’t know, Urs, but they want to talk to you.They’ve been insistent.”
Which meant my time hiding under a rock was over.“I’ll head back in the morning.”I nudged her, sick of talking about myself.“So, you and Loth, huh?”Whatever they’d been through after I left them, looked like it’d brought them back together.
“Yeah,” she said, her entire face softening.“He’s…I have him back, Urs.”
“About fucking time,” I said, my heart filling with happiness for both of them.“Give me the Cliffs Notes.”
“Seraphina,” Rox said.
I jolted at the name.“What?”Seraphina was a twisted angel who had gotten herself locked up by the angels a very fucking long time ago.
“She went rogue and ‘escaped’ apparently,” Rox said, using her fingers to do air quotes.“Somehow, she ‘avoided’ recapture.”More air quotes.“And Loth and I ended up her prisoners for a while.She wanted info on Lucifer, badly.”
Lucifer had a feeling the angels were up to something, and this proved it.“Where is she now?”
“Dead.Our working theory is that Heaven wants to trigger the forgotten prophecy and force us onto fate’s alternate path.”
A path that we’d avoided, thanks to a little thing called free will.We were currently on the correct one, the path we had all unknowingly chosen.To enact the forgotten prophecy, they’d need to change the course we were on.In other words, change fate.For something as big as that, only something huge would work, something like taking out Lucifer, for example, or at least removing him from Hell long enough for shit to hit the fan.“Fuck.”
“Yep.”Rox looked as concerned as I felt.She visibly shook it off, and a soft smile curved up her lips.“But enough about that.I’m just glad to see you.”Her smile widened.“I brought you a surprise.”
“Oh?”With Rox that could literally be anything.
She turned her head.“You can come out now!”
Lothar and Gus strode out of the trees.They only wore jeans since they’d obviously traveled here in their beast forms.
“We brought Gus with us to give you a ride,” she said, beaming.“You know, so the whole gang’s back together.”Gus had been travelling with us before I’d left for the tournament with Silas.
Gus ran over like the pup he was and plonked down beside me.I hooked my arm around his neck.“Hey, pup.”
“I missed you, Urs,” he said as he scented me, then frowned.“You don’t smell right.Are you hurt?Do you need me to lick your wounds?”
Lothar groaned.“Keep your tongue to yourself, pup.”
Gus frowned.“I wasn’t going to try and mount her.”He looked at me.“Unless you want me to?”
The pup was young still, in human years he was more like a horny and very naive twentysomething, with literally no ability to read social cues and with zero filter.
“I’m not hurt.”Not physically, anyway.My wounds had healed fast once I’d returned to Hell.I ruffled his hair.“Thanks for the offer, but I’ll pass on having my leg humped.”