Chapter Thirty Six- The Devil She Doesn't Know Part Seven

And something tells me that that encounter is only the first of many to come, that it will continue to hunt me down until it finds me. I am just praying, oh I hope that creature was not the figure I saw looming in the darkness of my room last night or lord knows I would lose my shit.

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"I don't know miss, I cannot answer that." Varto's response deplumed me of the bodacious spirit I worked so hard to manifest.

In that moment, my mind left the gutter and reared some questions which have been plaguing me for years and I turned to Varto to end my agony.

"You have known my father for a long time, so maybe you can tell me a few things about him I have been asking myself..." His eyes were immediately slathered with reluctance and he pressed his lips together, enunciating his next words slowly.

"A few things about the lord, you say..." He drawled, unconvinced that I just needed minor details which were not going to need him to cross any lines.

"Yes, my father is still much a mystery to me. There is a lot I do not know about him, like where is he from? Do I have any grandparents? Where are his parents? Where did he meet my mother? How old is he?" I cannot believe that I do not even know how old the Devil is, how did he even amass his wealth? The internet is just full of speculation and slanderous misinformation when it comes to him, and as for my mother always dodges any question regarding the inception of their relationship- she can't even tell me where she met him.

My mother is the only family I have, I know nothing of her parents, siblings or any other relatives, she has never mentioned anything about her family and it is very weird that I am living with people whose origins I don't know. What am I saying, I don't know mine either.

Varto shook his head and that was the definite indicator of the negative response he was inclined to. "I cannot reveal anything to you, miss and I advise you not to seek answers until you are ready."

I rolled my eyes, more vexed than I usually would have been. I do not like being kept in the dark like this, I do not like feeling like I am the only oblivious fool. Varto does not even want to answer a question as simple as the Devil's age, I didn't even need the exact date and month, I just want to know who he is and where he comes from.

"Do you even know what he is?"

I narrowed my eyes at Varto, gazing at him studiously in a reprobating manner.

"What do you mean, miss?" .

I guess I'll have to be less vague.

"Are you aware that you are serving a monster?" I asked him in a staid tone, my reproof of his loyalty to my father could not be missed. I do not understand how it would be possible for me to be the only one aware that the Devil, is indeed the Devil and does not fall under the human species.

Varto's eyes slightly narrowed and he gave me this unnerving stare that made me suspect he knew exactly what I was implying and that he understood that the label 'monster' was more literal than metaphorical. His face tensed, he clenched his jaw before facing ahead and responding in a strained voice and austere tone.

"Miss, we are all monsters in human skin. Do not be fooled, nothing is ever as it seems, remember that."

He's telling me, me of all people! Caprice is my order of day.

Maybe he had not grasped onto the idea I was trying to convey. Yes, he has spilled possibly just as much blood as my father, but he is not a creature of the night, his nature is human. The Devil must hide his nature very well, maybe I am the only unfortunate one who has witnessed him in his natural form, maybe I am the only one who has been able to push him over the edge and awaken the beast in him.

Speaking of beasts. I realised that I had not questioned my narrow, miraculous escape from the creature that was hunting me. Varto was nowhere in sight as I ran through the woods, so It does not make sense how he made it to me before that Demon creature or whatever it was.

I adjusted myself on the seat, my movements detracting his attention from the road. We were approximately five minutes away from doom, so I needed to get all the answers I needed while I had the opportunity. I do not know if I will be seeing Varto in the morning, the Devil might decide that his contract with him has been terminated after he helped me 'misbehave' and he signed the contract with his blood hence it will only be broken with his blood.

"What happened to the thing that was chasing me?" I asked with an undertone of panic to my voice as I spotted the lit hotel buildings ahead. Shit! The chicken has come home to roost and something tells me my father is already waiting for me. Shit!

"Miss?" He feigned confusion and I relinquished even more control of my tongue to fear.

"Where did you find me?" I articulated the question so quickly, the words were almost crumpled to gibberish. Varto sure took his time to formulate words.

"I found you unconscious in the woods, you tripped on a log and fell on your face, miss."

I nodded my head absent-mindedly, fidgeting in my seat as the car took a turn to the gates of the third exit. The gates of Hell flashed their damning glow to me, golden and high, luring me to the perdition I have earned but was wishing I could run away from.

"So you must have seen it, the thing, it was a creature but not a human world creature, you know," I sighed deeply, composing myself because I was not making any sense, "okay, I am not talking about a bear, that was not a bear... it was something else, something that is not from this world.... you saw me fall, so you must have been right behind it or must have been watching from a good angle to get a good view of it... so, do you know what was chasing after me, Varto? What do you think it was?" I needed him to tell me that he also thinks I almost fell victim to a supernatural creature, so I know that I am not insane to actually believe the creature from the nightmare had infiltrated my reality.

"There was nothing chasing after you, miss." Why did he have to make it sound like I was delusional?

I know that thanks to Jon I had drugs in my system that could have affected my cognizance and altered my mind- but I know what I saw. I was not hallucinating, that thing was real.

And something tells me that that encounter is only the first of many to come, that it will continue to hunt me down until it finds me.

I am just praying, oh I hope that creature was not the figure I saw looming in the darkness of my room last night or lord knows I would lose my shit.

The Devil would have never allowed that though, I am the safest person in the world under his protection, well, not when he is the person I need to be protected from.