BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha's Little Demon by Cassandra M

Chapter 71

071 – Future Ruler of Kalmerus

LUCIUS.

I transported us to Lucija’s chamber, and I helped her put Stone in her bed. I knew she had many questions, but at the moment, she wasn’t asking any. She was busy attending to her mate and it was to my advantage. I didn’t want to tell her

anything more at the moment than what

she needed to know.

“I have to go now. I have other things to do,” I told her after a while of watching her clean up Stone’s body.

He looked like he was fucking dead to me, but his chest was moving, which meant he was still alive.

“But… what if I need you?” Lucija stood up from the bed and faced me.

“Then reach out to me. I won’t block my

mind.”

“Do you think Lucien will come back

soon?”

“I don’t think so. He wants to find the witch, so I’m sure he will search the whole North for her.”

“Will you let me know if he returns?”

“Of course. But what are your plans? Will

you return Stone to his cell?”

“No. Definitely not. I just want to be prepared when he comes back because

I’m sure he will raise hell if he finds out I took him out of the dungeons.”

“Raise hell? You’re already in hell.” I chuckled before I let out a deep sigh, and my expression turned serious. “Lucija, you need to control your fire. If you snap and your fire comes out, you can burn the

whole place. And it won’t kill Lucien, me, or any other demons, but I am sure it will affect the man there, and it will backfire

on you.”

She nodded her head, but I wanted to make sure she understood the severity of letting out fire uncontrolled.

“If I’m not around to remind you, you need to remind yourself to calm down. You have a wolf, right?”

She nodded her head.

“Make her useful. Tell her to remind you so she has some use here and not just resting there in your head.”

Lucija’s mouth twitched as her eyes dilated, but it was just for a few seconds. Her wolf was trying to surface, which impressed me because, despite the enchantment around the tower, she was able to show me a glimpse of her through

Lucija’s eyes.

I chuckled as I pointed at her. “I made

your wolf angry. Remind me to stay away once you can shift.”

“My wolf is not useless.” She glared at me.

“Whatever,” I said before turning around and disappearing from her room without saying anything else.

I transported my body on the stairs going up to my room. I could have gone directly inside my chamber, but I wanted time to think, and walking helped.

My mind had been racing for the past few days. I literally had no idea what my next

move would be. There were many

speculations in my head, and I didn’t

know what to believe anymore.

But one thing I knew for sure: I needed

Lucija on my side.

I might be older than her, but I knew she had a power far greater than mine. How did I find out? I wasn’t born yesterday. If you’d been living around my father,

Lucien, for decades, you would get to know him inside and out.

He had never behaved strangely until Lucija moved in with us.

I had always known that by the time he retired as the ruler of Kalmerus,

Guillermo was most likely to take over. Guillermo was three centuries older than

me, and Lucien had always favored him over everyone else, including me.

Of course, why would he choose me? I

was nothing. My mother was a she- demon slave. She left me at the gates of the tower on the very same day that I was

born and never came back. I didn’t even

know her name. Lucien was responsible

enough to take me in but other than that, I didn’t receive any personal attention.

from him.

He probably didn’t know how to raise his

own son.

Almost all my brothers were brought up

by their mothers and were only

summoned by Lucien the moment they

turned fifteen. Some of them stayed in

the tower with us, but the moment they came of age at eighteen, they moved away

and made a life of their own.

also moved out and had my own place,

came back here most of the

me, some of my brothers had

clear

it bothered Father at all. We all knew he had his eyes set on

not stop us from

already a

beat. I didn’t need more.

eliminated some of them as many as

I could.

you asked me how many of

in my hands, I couldn’t count

names.

any of the killings. They’re weak, otherwise, I would

to kill them. The only

because

his eyes on him. But I waited patiently until

no longer the apple

that Lucien found

he had a daughter. I thought

her bordered

thorns. But as the years went by,

something more than the fascination of having a daughter.

or cared about my existence,

be stronger. Something he never

on how to discover other powers within her. She was never taught to explore many more possibilities.

matter how many times Gargon,

her training, my father kept refusing. He didn’t want her

to be

So I made my own move and tried to find

fell on me.

Cordelia, the right hand of Orpheus.

was the immortal seer of the

see the future,

remember it

to be with

she had her

knew

SO

was the Prince of Lust, I never had

I succeeded when no

next thing I knew, I was

her

information from her.

told me the next ruler of

a male or a female, but the ruler would be stronger than my father.

way. If Father died, the prophesied

that time, I thought

kill Lucien’s heir

two targets in

Guillermo and Lucija.

began noticing Guillermo’s absence in his life. In fact, I haven’t seen him in the last decade. He had probably visited the tower

attention had shifted

was not one of the sons, but

have been an easy act. She was only eleven at that time and knew nothing about

world.

fight back.

be an easy kill, but

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

years old

the remaining whisky in

tonight.

fuck as well. Lust might be in my blood, but sometimes

I

sex with

like a god in bed, so I

who were lusting

ran out of

Father took pleasure in taking females who refused to fuck

him.

was one of those nights that I would rather be alone in

move to secure

crown.

small, but

I knew who it was.

Lucija.

turned around and flashed

Just the girl I was

was

as if she wanted to get

one. My name is Lucius.” I

and asked her to

she did, but she

adjacent to where I was

her on many occasions, and Father had introduced her to us, but we never really spoke to each other.

she stated

straight, her eyes looking directly at

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

who

head as I sipped my

way I can get out of

11

you?” I chuckled in surprise at

her

you think

others. They

at

you never

them.”

too… But you smiled at me,” she

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