She had, but Knox hadn't seen how that could be possible. He hadn't seen how she could have enjoyed years of having no real say in basic things like where she lived.
Knox tucked her hair behind her ear. "Tell me more about Lucian. I need reasons why I shouldn't kill him."
She shot him a mock scowl. "Lucian isn't cruel. Self-centered and absentminded, yeah. At the core of all that, he's very lonely." All demons were plagued by loneliness, and Lucian felt it acutely, which made him seriously restless. "But he doesn't have the emotional maturity to do anything about it or to connect with others. So he lives with a hole inside him. Once upon a time, he tried to fill it with drugs, alcohol, women, gambling, and all kinds of dangerous shit. He's past that phase now, but he can't fill that void. I'm not sure if he even knows exactly what he's looking for in life, but he's always searching for it, and he's always searching in all the wrong places."
