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

I came back here most of

of my brothers had come back and made their

clear

Father at all. We all

did not stop us from still

was already a

didn’t

some of them as

I could.

you asked me how many of my brothers.

hands, I couldn’t count anymore.

names.

no. I didn’t regret any of the killings. They’re

kill them. The only one I

was Guillermo because I

his eyes on him. But I waited patiently until it

apple

that Lucien

daughter. I thought

her bordered on the fact

rose among throngs of thorns. But as the years went

more than the fascination of

father was never hands-on with me or cared about my existence, he did provide me

stronger. Something he never gave

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

no matter how many times Gargon,

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

her to be stronger.

Father wasn’t telling anyone. So I made my own move and tried to find the answer. Until

fell on me.

Cordelia, the right

was the immortal seer of the

could see

remember it afterward,

needed someone to

had her

knew

SO

the Prince of Lust, I never had any problem making her

when no one had.

the next thing I

fucking her and extracting

information from her.

me the next ruler of

would be stronger than my father. And killing

way. If Father died, the prophesied ruler

that time, I thought it

heir than him.

had two targets in mind.

Guillermo and Lucija.

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

had

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

have been an easy act. She was only eleven

world.

never fight back.

an easy kill, but one

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

– 11 years old

downed the remaining whisky in my glass. Some of my brothers had left and gone their own ways, so I

tonight.

one to fuck as well. Lust might be

Father, I never forced

to have sex with

treated like a god in bed, so I

lusting

I never ran out of them, so

clue why Father took pleasure in taking females who

him.

tonight was one of those nights that I would

my next move

crown.

A small, but clear

ears, and I knew who it

Lucija.

and flashed her

I

was

as if she wanted to get lost in it.

name

with my hand and asked

forward, which she did, but she

adjacent to where I was standing.

occasions, and Father had introduced her to us, but we never really spoke to each

Lucy,” she stated

eyes looking

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

know who I

my head as I sipped my drink without

you know a way I can get

11

I know, I will tell you?” I chuckled in surprise at

nodded her head.

you think

the others.

at

never

them.”

you too… But you smiled at me,” she replied

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