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Carrie had been living with her father Lucifer for several days now and it took her some time to get used to life in hell. Despite being accommodated with her father and seeing him almost every day, Lucifer gave little or no attention to the teenager who was desperately trying to be recognized by him. This adds up to the fact that none of the documents she has found in the house points to the cause of Eve's death, apart from the sudden end of her relationship with Felix and the fact that she was alone because Elizabeth returned to be with Minho, taking the girl to the brink of collapsing. One morning, Carrie got up from her bed and went downstairs to have breakfast with her father. However, Lucifer had already gotten ahead of herself and had finished her meal quickly. He wiped his lips and, before getting up, looked at Carrie.

"I need you to clean my room today, I'll be out all day and today we won't have anyone to do the housework." Lucifer announces, withdrawing from the table, going to the door with a jacket in his hand and leaving the property.

Carrie sighs with a certain concentration so she doesn't collapse into tears. Without an appetite, Demon leaves the table and climbs the stairs to the chambers of the Lord of Hell. The room was as expected from a chaotic, authentic chaos. Clothes scattered everywhere, clean or dirty, bed all undone, drinks everywhere and dishes with crumbs or even food left in the middle. Carrie only thinks about the headache of tidying up the whole thing and she already feels like giving up the idea and going back to Earth right now. The girl starts little by little, starting by separating the clothes and tidying up the one that was clean. Then she made the bed no matter what the last time the sheets were changed. Then, all the dishes she could find, she put them together to take to the kitchen. She even found some under the bed, and it wasn't the only thing. While looking for them, the girl found something that caught his attention. A hardcover notebook, with a bordeaux colour with golden decorations, you could see that the design was old. It was kind of dusty, but Carrie takes it and shakes all the dust off, reading on the cover "Diário de Eve". The girl's eyes are immediately filled with surprise, finally a clue that could shed light on her early and sudden death. The rest of the cleanliness is quickly ignored, with Carrie plunging into the life of her own mother and the reports she has made.

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Eve walked through the Gardens of Eden with his bare feet, feeling the grass molding itself to the shape of his feet and each leaf of it underneath. Her body was covered with foliage that covered her innermost parts and the animals admired her existence wherever she passed. The woman would collect some berries and other fruits and eat them, enjoying the variety of flavors that danced on her tongue, until she came across the tree of the forbidden fruit, the one that God ordered to be untouchable. Despite knowing that divine rule, Eve couldn't stop admiring the red peel that revealed the sweetness of the fruit, of thinking how it would be inside it. Human curiosity was something that could never be stopped, and on that day, Eve had come closer to the tree. She had looked at the fruit whose skin shone with the light of the Sun, and the bright drop that contoured its shape. Disillusioned by not being able to taste it, the woman sighs and turns around, ready to move away when she hears something behind her. She was a snake snaking through the hard branches of the tree, with its dark green scales and bright black eyes. The snake slowly approaches Eve, never letting go of the tree. Eve was surprised by the audacity of the crawling animal, which was in direct contact with the fruit tree.

"Hello, Eve." The woman almost jumped with the surprise that she heard a snake talking, not to mention that she knew his name.

Surprise steals air from Eve's lungs, leaving her unanswered. The beauty of the snake attracts Eve to approach it, and consequently, the forbidden fruit, making her observe them more closely and making it difficult for her to resist temptation. The water went up to the mouth of the weak human, who became more hungry every minute as she looked at them closely.

"Do you want one?" The snake asks, wrapping its tail around a fruit, detaching it from the branch that held it and presenting it less than a inch from Eve's face.

The blonde knew that she could not, did not want to disobey God, the Almighty who gave life to her and all that surrounds her and the only rule that he imposed, but human weakness is the characteristic that brings them closer to irrational animals. Without thinking about the consequences and only answering his wish, Eve took the fruit with both hands, feeling the smooth red skin and biting into it, feeling the texture and the juices that poured from inside that white layer. The taste was completely different from any fruit the woman had tasted. Its flavor was sweet and moist, refreshing Eve's throat as it descended into her stomach. Before he could take a second bite, the sky darkens almost immediately and noisy thunder expresses the fury of God who felt betrayed. The snake, seeing the environment that was settling in, sneaked out of there and into the dense forest.

"Eve!" A heavy, hoarse loud voice breaks through the skies, "I gave you life, I gave you paradise to live in harmony with all other animals, I created you to take care of and guiding the irrational animals, and you disobey the only rule that I impose?! You are expelled from the Gardens of Eden, you and Adam!"

Eve stared in shock at the sky as it brightened again. The animals began to converge at Eve's foot, with a hostile attitude, driving her away. Looking around, she sees Adam retreating in slow steps as she faces angry lions and tigers. The eyes of the two humans meet and, Adam seeing the fruit in Eve's hand, soon realizes what happened and is furious with the woman. The two eventually leave the Gardens of Eden and stayed in the middle of an arid and warm territory. Adam goes ahead and Eve follows him, although the man is angry with her for being responsible for his expulsion. One night, the two humans were warming up at the foot of a campfire and with two sheets made of palm leaves as a bed. Adam was already asleep, but Eve looked at the flames of the campfire that were being extinguished with the wood consumed. Eve sighs and looks at the starry sky, remembering the snake that led her to sin. Her black eyes caused her a certain discomfort but also curiosity. That was not a normal snake, beginning with the fact that she was talking, and her eyes moved Eve's mind, as if she had forced her to eat that apple.

Suddenly, the flames of the bonfire light up quickly and rise to the height of a shadow that appears between them and comes out inside them, toward Eve who was already sitting on her improvised bed, observing what was happening. A male figure with two little horns rising from his forehead appears in front of the helpless woman, and he kneels down to be at her height.

"Hello, Eve." The familiar voice heard from the serpent in the Gardens of Eden was the voice of that Demon.

"It was you." Eve quickly deduced that it was the character in front of him who had appeared earlier in the form of a snake.

"Yes." The man confirms, as he looks into Eve's eyes, causing him the same sensations as last time, "You see, I needed to get you out of there, and so I did. But now, I have a better place to offer you."

Eve remains alert and afraid as she looks at Lucifer's stretched hand. Suspiciously and carefully, Eve gives her hand to Demon, who helps her up, and directs her into the flames, taking her into a dimension far from there.

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