[• As introduced in the previous chapters, please be warned of the gory content, adult language, and vulgarity for sensitive readers •]
ISRAFEL COULDN'T EVEN HEAR THE RAIN anymore. His eardrums had been smashed out, or was it smashed in?
Every opening in his face was bleeding. His nose. Mouth—lips ragged raw. His eyes and ears. And Lilith had punched new ones in it.
From his days in Hel, he'd known about the fiery anger of the Queen of the Night. His crass-as-shit Uncles had always joked with writing a book on How Not To Piss Off Lilith, so that neither one of the underworld gods forgot. Even the Lore told her of as a menace. But he'd never been on the receiving end of that fury before. Never. Lilith had never hit him once in his hellish years. Funnily, he was the one who did the hitting—mostly indoors with whips, ladle, and at times his very endowed extremity.