Buying Beth
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Is she another wife I haven’t met yet?
“Who’s that?” I whisper to Johnathan.
He frowns, his bushy brows knitting together, and says, “Shit. I think that’s Lucifer’s sister. What’s she doing here?”
I glance towards Amy, but she looks just as confused as I am.
I look towards Simon and see he is no longer staring at David. No, he’s staring at the woman and looking like someone just punched him in the gut.
“Meredith,” Lucifer says, and slowly approaches her. The woman may be his sister, but he doesn’t look particularly happy to see her. “What do we owe the pleasure?”
The woman glances nervously around the room again, at all the surprised faces, before her expression hardens with determination.
She lifts her chin in the air with the regal bearing of a queen, and says, “Matthew, I need your help…”