Lucifer’s POV

I didn’t move at first, I couldn't.

The forest felt like it stopped breathing the moment I whispered, “Mom?”

A part of me, my rational mind, knew it couldn’t be real.

My mom was dead. She was killed by those soldiers years ago…

But another part of me, that part that wanted to see his mother again at all costs, pulled me forward.

I took a single step.l foward and then another.

My boots crushed dead leaves underfoot.

I hated how badly I wanted this to be ...