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.

out and

here

like me, some of my brothers had come back

clear

father’s crown. Not that it bothered Father at all. We all knew he had

not stop us from still wanting it.

already a

didn’t need

of them as many as

I could.

how

count anymore. I couldn’t even

names.

of the killings. They’re weak, otherwise, I would not

to kill them. The only one I couldn’t

because I knew my

eyes on him. But I waited

no longer the apple of

the moment that Lucien found

a daughter. I thought

bordered on

she was his only rose among throngs of thorns. But

was something more than the fascination

me or cared about my existence, he did provide me

be stronger. Something he never

to discover other powers within her. She was never taught to explore many

no matter how

kept

want her to be

made my own

fell on me.

met Cordelia, the right

was the immortal seer of

could see the future,

couldn’t remember

someone to

had

Cordelia knew

SO

Lust, I never had any problem making her

when no

next thing I knew, I was

fucking her and extracting

information from her.

me the next ruler of Kalmerus

not yet determined, whether a male or a female, but the ruler would be stronger than my father.

was only one way. If Father

that time, I thought it would

heir than

only had two targets

Guillermo and Lucija.

the last decade. He had probably visited the tower once or twice, but never as often as in previous decades when Father would always summon him

attention had shifted elsewhere.

I realized the heir was not one of the sons, but

only eleven at that time and knew

world.

never fight

easy kill,

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

– 11 years old 3

female he brought home while I downed the remaining whisky in my glass. Some of my brothers had left and gone their own ways, so I had no companion for

tonight.

had no one to fuck as well. Lust might be in my blood, but

I never

to have sex with

a god in bed, so I would

were lusting over me.

of them,

fucking clue why Father took pleasure in taking females who refused

him.

I would rather

next move to secure the

crown.

small, but

and I

Lucija.

around and flashed her

the girl I

She was pressing herself

as if she wanted to get

name is

with my hand and asked

she did, but

to where I was

on many occasions, and Father had introduced her

she stated as she sat

eyes looking directly

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

know who I am?”

my drink without taking

you know a way I can

11

tell you?” I

her head.

made you think

the others. They

smiled at me.”

because you never smiled at

them.”

too… But you smiled at me,”

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