“Yes, I need to know. If someone hurt our hellhounds, they will pay,” she states.
Guess torture is on the menu tonight.
Chapter Eight
Serenity
If I had known sooner about the hellhounds, I would have brought them up. I didn’t know they were supposed to always be around.
The staff walks in. They all look scared to be summoned. It must not happen often.
There are about a dozen of them, and they are lined up against the wall while we all sit there and stare them down. The longer we are quiet, the more anxious they get.
Is it weird that I love watching them squirm?
“I had just been informed my hellhounds have been missing for days. Why was I not told sooner?” Lucifer starts.
When no one says anything, I can see Lucifer getting angrier. “Speak!”
“I thought you had ordered them away, so I never said anything,” one of the men says.
“I have you on duty to feed them. You didn’t think to question me?” Lucifer asks while slowly standing up and walking towards the man, demon, being, whatever he is.
I watch as he swallows hard and sweat starts to form on his forehead.
“I don’t know what happened to them,” he says, sounding panicked.
“Serenity dear?” Lucifer asks, calling me over his shoulder.
“Yes?” I ask.
“Come here for a second…”
I move to stand up, but Silas stops me.
“Why does she have to go over there?” he asks.
“Trust me, son, no harm will come to your bride. I just want to see something,” Lucifer states and gestures for me to walk over to them.
I walk over to him and he whispers, “I want you to just shake his hand.”
I look at him oddly, but it’s nothing drastic. I hate touching people but it will only just be for a second, I tell myself.
“Have you met my new daughter? This is Serenity. Serenity, this is Hunter. He is the keeper of the hellhounds,” he says, and I hold my hand out to shake.
The second my hand touches his, I am lost in what I can only explain as information overload.
I see everything this guy had done or thought in his whole existence. I want to pull away, but I think about the missing hellhounds. I try to concentrate on them, and I find my mind being pulled towards a memory. I see him looking towards the palace before injecting something into the hellhounds. He drags them outside the perimeter where someone else takes them.
I pull my hand back gasping. I clutch my hand to my chest and look towards the man.
“What happened?” the guy asks, looking at me confused.
“She saw into your soul everything you had done in your miserable existence,” Lucifer states.
“How did you know she could do that?” Silas asks, coming up behind me.
“I saw it when she accidently touched Jasper. She didn’t touch long enough for every piece of information on him, but enough for me to see what her new power is,” Lucifer states.