Part 24 (2/2)
”I'm sure if you really needed me He would bring me to you again.”
”Then I won't say goodbye,” I tell her.
What daughter doesn't need her mother?
When I wake up, G.o.d is standing above me.
”Thank you,” I tell him.
”You're welcome.”
I sit up feeling like a weight has been lifted from my heart. Seeing my mother again helped fill in a part of my past, finally allowing me to close that chapter of my life. My mother loves me. That's all I ever wanted to know.
When I look over at G.o.d standing a few feet away from me now, I see a troubled frown on his face.
”What's wrong?” I ask him.
”I feel I should help prepare you for something.” He pauses and I'm not sure he's going to finish his thought until he says, ”In your final confrontation with Lucifer a sacrifice will have to be made.”
”What kind of sacrifice?”
”That will be revealed to you soon.”
”Are you seriously going to just leave me with that answer?” I ask in disbelief.
”I have to be careful with my words,” G.o.d says. ”I hope I haven't said too much as it is.”
”So will I get a warning about this sacrifice or is it just going to be a surprise?”
”There will be a warning. One of the archangels you have yet to find will be able to show you more.”
I sit there stunned and, I'll admit, slightly p.i.s.sed. He drops a sacrifice bombsh.e.l.l on me and doesn't say anything else? Ugh...
”Also,” G.o.d says, ”tell Mason I would be happy to do what he asked.”
”What did he ask?”
”I believe he wants to tell you that himself.”
”Ok,” I say, not having a clue what Mason would have asked G.o.d to do for him but apparently I was involved in it in someway.
”I should go now,” G.o.d says to me. ”Lucifer is coming.”
”Do I offer him the crown now?”
”You will know when the time is right.”
G.o.d phases just as I hear the rhythmic movement of the rocking chair on the porch.
Chapter 16.
I have no idea when I'm supposed to offer Lucifer the crown but I feel certain it isn't today. I run to my bathroom and grab a white towel to wrap it in. I go back to the living room and hide it inside one of the cabinets in my entertainment center. I grab my coat and walk out to the front porch.
”So what was all the commotion in your backyard about last night?” Lucifer asks me when I come to stand in front of him.
”Were you here?” I ask, certain I would have noticed the devil in my backyard.
”Yes but I didn't see you, just your neighbors.”
”Mason and I must have left by then.”
Lucifer looks at me expectantly, waiting for an answer to his original question.
”I asked Mason to marry me last night.”
Lucifer grunts. ”Guess I should have seen that coming,” he says derisively. ”Did he not have enough gumption to ask you himself? Needed a woman to do the job for him did he?”
”Don't talk about him like that in front of me. If you can't speak civilly about the man I plan to share my life with, don't say anything at all or better yet leave.”
”At least he's not human,” Lucifer s.h.i.+vers, completely seeming to ignore my ultimatum. ”I would have to seriously reconsider your intelligence if you had chosen a monkey to mate with.”
”But in your eyes I'm a monkey,” I remind him.
”Only partially. You have the soul of a Guardian. That puts you above a normal human in my estimation.”
I suppose that's how he's rationalizing his feeling for me now. If I have part of the soul of an angel, I'm not completely human so he's not degrading himself by being friends with one.
”Tomato, tamato,” I say to him.
Lucifer looks confused. ”What?”
”A tomato is a tomato even if you try to make it sound fancier. It's what you're trying to do by saying I'm above a regular human because part of my soul comes from a Guardian. You need to face the fact that I'm just a human, Lucifer. You're friends with a human.”
Lucifer grunts again but doesn't say anything.
”I suppose he said yes,” Lucifer says, changing the subject. ”Is that the biggest ring he could find?”
I look at my diamond. It sparkles even in the shade of the porch, trapping the ambient light within is mult.i.tude of facets and causing a dazzling s.h.i.+mmer.
”Big enough for me,” I say.
”Well I would hope so. A 10carat diamond doesn't come cheap in your world.”
I hadn't even thought about how much it cost.
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