Chapter 185 Chapter

I hesitated and she nodded again, as if my reluctance to confess it somehow confirmed everything she had said. Clearing my throat, I tried to make sense of everything I thought and felt about Lucifer, instinctively knowing that the only way I was going to get any answers from Sister Agnes, was if I found a way to articulate everything that was spinning around in my head – things that I had scarcely admitted to myself, let alone anyone else. "I don't know what to think about him, if I'm being honest. You're right, he's not the creature I always believed him to be, or maybe he is underneath it all, but so far he's done absolutely nothing to make me think otherwise. He's been....." I swallowed hard. ".....nice, for want of a better word. He's been...." "Charming? Sympathetic? Understanding?" "Yes," I whispered, bowing my head, feeling the shame of that confession hit me harder than I ever thought it would. "Yes, he's been all those things. And yet...." "Yet what?