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.

moved out and had my own place,

here

brothers had come back and made their

clear

father’s crown. Not that it bothered Father at all.

did not stop us

already a tough

I didn’t need more.

some of them

I could.

me how many of my

in my hands, I couldn’t count anymore. I couldn’t

names.

killings. They’re

them. The only one I

was Guillermo because I knew

waited patiently

apple of his

the moment that Lucien found out

daughter.

her bordered

she was his only rose among throngs of thorns. But as the years

something more than the fascination of having a

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

stronger. Something he never gave

was trained on the basics, but never on how to discover other

no matter how many

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

want her to be stronger.

I made my own move and tried to find

fell on me.

right

the immortal seer of the

She could see the

remember it

someone to be with her

had her

Cordelia knew

SO

I never had any

when no

I knew, I

her and extracting

information from her.

the next ruler of Kalmerus

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

Father died,

time, I thought

kill Lucien’s heir

I only had two

Guillermo and Lucija.

in the last decade. He had probably visited

attention had shifted elsewhere.

that I realized the heir was not one

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

world.

never fight

easy kill,

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

years old 3

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

tonight.

might be in my blood, but sometimes I

Father, I never forced any

sex

in being treated like a god in bed, so I would definitely go

who were lusting over

out of

took pleasure in taking females who refused

him.

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

my next move to

crown.

but clear

I knew

Lucija.

and flashed her a

girl I

She was

she wanted to get lost in it.

one. My name is Lucius.”

and asked her to

forward, which she did, but

adjacent to

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

Lucy,” she

eyes looking directly

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

who I am?”

as I sipped my drink without

know a way I can get out of here?

11

will tell you?” I chuckled in surprise at her

nodded her head.

made you think that?”

others.

smiled at me.”

never smiled at

them.”

smiled at me,” she

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