Fallen Into Hell: Fallen: Book 2, Layna Snow [the mitten read aloud .TXT] 📗

you hungry?” he asked, and just the thought of putting food in her stomach made her want to… well she didn’t want to think of that either. She just wanted to sleep. Not here though!

“Just sit up!” the kid intoned, sounding like he was losing his temper. “I know sign language. You can communicate with me! Don’t just lay there. You went through Hell, now act like a warrior and do something!”

Well, what did he expect her to do? She was taken by aliens. Ended up in this weird place. She couldn’t talk, it hurt to move, and she just wanted to curl up in her guys’ arms for the next few weeks. She thought that she could protect herself, but she failed!

She had tried so hard, and now she was just about ready to give up.

“You spend all this time and energy coming down here, and now that the end is in sight you aren’t even going to ask your questions? Don’t you want to know what those things are? They are Xérnal Demons. We use them as messengers. They said that you thought they were aliens. A normal misconception. They mentioned that you were worried that they had probed you. And they did… sort of. Not physically. They cause hallucinations and then can extract information from your brain. They do it often. I like to stay up on all the latest information. It’s not as though I get to leave often.”

He sounded disgruntled, and just a little peeved at her.

He had no right!

Whoever he was, he kidnapped her. Dragged her down here, and took her memories!

Sophie sighed, getting her elbows under her and levering herself into a sitting position. For a moment, the room spun.

It took a moment to get everything settled, then she looked around the cave. It was large, mostly empty but well decorated. The light from the ceiling illuminated the sideboard, something that she had only heard about in historical romance books. There was a pitcher of some kind of liquid. She felt so parched, but she wasn’t going to drink anything here.

Right, because you’ve made super awesome decisions so far!

Gosh, she just didn’t know what to do anymore! But she knew sitting on the ground wasn’t going to help.

Her brief depressive moment was broken by her anger.

“Who are you?” She signed.

The boy laughed, and shook his head, as if amused. “Who did you come here to find, love?”

She came to Hell to meet the Devil. To make a deal, but surely this child wasn’t him.

Was he?

“I can see that you’re thinking.” He said with a happy smile. “And you’re right. I am the head honcho, the Devil, Lucifer, Abaddon, Satan, whatever else you want to call me.” He shrugged.

This cute child was the evil being she had been warned about since she was little?

This was the guy that wanted to raise an army against the Lord in order to let chaos reign? This was the man of fire and death who tricked people to get their souls?

El Diablo- as her Abuela would call him with a shudder.

Appearances can be deceiving!

And she knew that this ‘kid’ was much more dangerous than he let on.

Soph backed up quickly, crab walking to put some space between them.

Yeah, like space was going to protect you! It’s just open air! But her instincts were to flee.

The darkness that emanated from him was evil, thick and pulled her in as much as it repulsed her.

Everything inside of her wanted to run away, knew that this boy wasn’t to be trusted.

The Devil sighed, and even at a distance, she could see him roll his eyes. “You’re being awfully dramatic. I could have killed you, already.”

And while that was true, it didn’t mean that he didn’t mean her any harm. Hadn’t Adrian told her that he lied? Hadn’t Melody warned her about the dangers?

She had planned and plotted this moment. She had figured out exactly what she was going to say, but now that it was here, there was nothing in her besides fear.

A terror so profound that Sophie had trouble making her hands sign without trembling. “Is that why you brought me here? Because I was looking for you?”

The teenager rolled his eyes again, his imitation of a real teenager was spot on! “Obviously. That, and I wanted to know what information you had. I mean, you weren’t going to make it on your own. Even with my manipulation of the penny you still didn’t find your way here. Turns out Adrian wanted you to stay with him.”

It took her a second to figure out what he was talking about.

And then she realized that Sin had caught the coin that last time. He had lied to her? As if that’s a shocker!

She should have felt anger, but instead she felt disappointed. She had wanted it to be Annie telling her where to go. She wanted it so badly, to be close to her sister again, even just in spirit. But it wasn’t her. It was Lucifer.

Of course.

“Don’t look so down, little one. Ask me what you came here to ask me. I might be in the mood to grant a little favour.”

Sure he would be! He probably already knew what she wanted. Why didn’t he just make it come true! Why didn’t he just save Annie and be done with it.

Maybe it doesn’t work that way. Her conscience told her. Maybe she needed to ask specifically.

And how was she to do that? She needed to think this through, to come up with a phrase what wouldn’t be misconstrued.

She wanted to make sure that he didn’t lie or cheat.

She’d seen movies with the Devil in them. And she knew that phrasing was everything.

“I want Annie, my Annie, to wake up