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

I came back here most

like me, some of my brothers had come back and made their

clear

that it bothered Father at all.

did not stop us from still wanting it.

was already

to beat. I didn’t need more.

some of them as many

I could.

how many

couldn’t count anymore.

names.

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

them. The only one I couldn’t

because I knew my

But I waited patiently until it dawned on me that

no longer the apple of his eye.

the moment that

a daughter. I thought his

bordered on the

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

than the fascination

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

stronger. Something he

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

matter how

kept refusing. He didn’t want her to move forward.

to

I made my own move

fell on me.

met Cordelia, the right

the immortal seer

see

remember it

someone to be with

had her readings.

Cordelia knew

SO

of Lust, I never

when no one

the next thing I knew, I

fucking her and

information from her.

the next ruler of Kalmerus

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

Father died, the prophesied ruler would still

that time, I thought it would be

Lucien’s heir

only had two targets

Guillermo and Lucija.

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

attention had shifted elsewhere.

was then that I realized the heir was not one of the

have been an easy act. She was only eleven at that time and

world.

never fight back.

to be an easy

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

– 11 years old

while I downed the remaining whisky in my glass. Some of my brothers had left

tonight.

well. Lust might be in my blood, but sometimes

Father, I never

to have sex

treated like a god

lusting

of them, so I had

took pleasure in taking females who refused to fuck

him.

of those nights that I would rather be

move to

crown.

A small, but clear

I knew who it was.

Lucija.

around and flashed

I was hoping to

was pressing

she wanted

name is

hand and asked her to

forward, which she did, but she sat

to where I was standing.

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

name is Lucy,” she stated as she sat

straight, her eyes looking

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

know who

my drink without taking my

I can get out of here?

11

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

her head.

you think that?”

the others. They

smiled at

never

them.”

smiled at me,” she replied in

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