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 had

back here most of the

some of my brothers had come back and made their intentions.

clear

crown. Not that it bothered Father at all. We all knew

it did not stop us

was already

didn’t

of them as many as

I could.

asked me how many of my

my hands, I couldn’t count anymore. I

names.

the killings. They’re weak, otherwise, I

kill them. The only one I couldn’t

because

his eyes on him. But I waited

the apple

the moment that

he had a daughter. I thought

her bordered on the

among throngs of thorns. But

was something more than the fascination

cared about my existence, he did provide me

Something he never gave

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

how many times

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

her to

So I made my own move and tried to find the answer.

fell on me.

Cordelia, the right hand of Orpheus.

the immortal seer of the

She could see the

remember it

to

she had her readings.

Cordelia knew everything.

SO

I was the Prince of Lust, I never had

I succeeded when

the next thing I

fucking her

information from her.

next ruler of

male or a female, but the ruler would be stronger

only one way. If Father died, the prophesied

that time, I thought

Lucien’s heir

two targets in mind.

Guillermo and Lucija.

then I 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 once or twice, but never as often as in

attention had shifted elsewhere.

realized the heir was not

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

world.

could never fight back. She was

easy

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

11 years old 3

he brought home while I downed the remaining whisky

tonight.

well. Lust might be in my blood, but sometimes I

unlike Father, I never

sex

god in bed, so I would definitely

were lusting over

I never ran out of them,

fucking clue why Father took pleasure in taking

him.

I would rather

on my next move to

crown.

but clear

ears, and I knew who it was.

Lucija.

around and flashed her

girl I

She was pressing herself

entryway pillar as if she wanted to

name is

hand and asked her to

she did,

adjacent to where I was

and Father had introduced her to us, but we

is Lucy,” she

her eyes looking directly at

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

who I am?”

head as I sipped my drink

you know a way I can get out of here?

11

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

her head.

you think that?”

others. They

smiled at me.”

never smiled at

them.”

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

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