Chapter 17
If you dream you are standing at the gates of heaven, do not assume it means your time is up. Rather consider that the time you still have left is meant to be lived in such a way that when it is time for you to pass through those gates you will be bringing many with you.
Lucifer stood in Serenity’s mind, in a prison he’d created that he knew she couldn’t escape. The fires of hell surrounded them, and heat blistered her skin. Perhaps he wouldn’t have to destroy her physical body after all. Dair was already being destroyed, and soon he would be useless to the Creator. His fear, his selfish need to have Serenity, was crippling him.
Sometimes Lucifer forgot how powerful the human mind was. It wielded control over the body in a way that humans did not fully understand. Weaken the
