Lucifer really needed to stop doing that and he knew that, but he had poor impulse control as it was and most of it was aimed at not doing anything more drastic.

So he kept his fingers moving through Duke's hair.

"It was," he said. "There I met this lounge singer who was in dire straits. Her father's nightclub was deeply in depth and she didn't know how to pay it off, so I helped her. In exchange, we got married, so she could pose as my wife while I tried to ferret out mum's true intentions."