Chapter 60

“Tell me, my king! I’ll do anything to keep my place as lord. I’ll kill, destroy, commit the most heinous of sins to correct this awful mistake!” Again, he lowered his head before Satan. “You have but to command me.”

Satan’s flashing eyes looked down at the pitiful hulk who groveled on the floor before him, and allowed his lips to twist into an evil smile. “Anything?”

“Yes sire, anything.”

“Would you kill women, children, innocent newborns, and drink their blood? Would you blow up cities full of unsuspecting people, cut the hearts out of priests and nuns? Would you burn churches to the ground, rape virgins?”

“I would do anything! Name it! I’ll do it now.”

Satan’s red lips stretched in satisfaction as his eyes danced with fire. “Too bad, because I want none of those things.” With a quick movement, he brutally grabbed at the Demon Lord’s wealth of hair and yanked his head back so he could glare into his eyes. “I—want—his—head!”

“Surely, you don’t mean—”