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

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,

here most of

my brothers had come back and made their

clear

crown. Not that it bothered Father at all. We

it did not stop us from still

was already

to beat. I didn’t need more. So

of them as many as

I could.

you asked me how

hands, I couldn’t count anymore. I couldn’t even remember

names.

regret any of the killings. They’re

to kill them. The

Guillermo because I knew my

But I waited patiently until it dawned on me

no longer the apple of his

the moment that

daughter.

with her bordered on the

was his only rose among throngs of thorns. But as the years went by, I felt

more than the fascination of having a daughter.

my father was never hands-on with me or cared about

Something he never

never on how to discover other powers within her. She was never taught

no matter how many

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

want her to be stronger.

So I made my own

fell on me.

the right hand of Orpheus.

was the immortal seer

could see the future, but

remember it afterward,

someone to be with

had her readings.

knew everything.

SO

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

I succeeded when

thing I knew, I

her and

information from her.

the next

yet determined, whether a male or a female, but the ruler would be stronger than my father. And killing him or her

way. If Father died, the prophesied ruler would still

I thought

kill Lucien’s heir than him.

only had two

Guillermo and Lucija.

noticing Guillermo’s absence in his life. In fact, I haven’t seen him in the last decade. He had probably visited the tower once or twice, but never as often as in previous

had shifted

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

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

world.

fight back.

to be an easy kill,

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

11 years old

to fuck a female he brought home while I downed the remaining whisky in my glass. Some of

tonight.

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

unlike Father, I never forced

have sex with

like a god in bed, so I would definitely

lusting over me.

never ran out of them, so I

Father took pleasure in taking females

him.

nights that I would rather be

on my next move to

crown.

small, but

ears, and I

Lucija.

flashed

girl I was hoping

She was pressing herself

entryway pillar as if she wanted to get lost in it.

little one. My name is Lucius.” I

hand and asked

she did, but she sat

Victorian couch adjacent to where I was

introduced her

name is Lucy,” she

straight, her eyes looking directly

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

who

I sipped my drink without taking my eyes

you know a way I can get

11

if I know, I will tell you?” I chuckled in

nodded her

you think that?”

the others. They

smiled at me.”

because you never smiled

them.”

you smiled at me,” she replied in a very