SOLD TO THE DEVIL KING
He was quiet for a long moment, and when he finally spoke, the words landed like a door creaking open, just wide enough to see something terrible beyond it.
"I was there."
All these years, the Devil had been standing at the edge of my family's grave.
"Why?" I demanded. "Why were you at my father's estate the night everything burned?"
"Your father contacted me," Dante said. "He believed something was wrong inside his own syndicate. A coup, a betrayal, he wasn't certain which. He asked me to come quietly, without drawing attention."
"You expect me to believe you went there to help my family."
"No." Something flickered across his face, guilt layered beneath years of careful control. "I expect y