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 my own place,

back here most of the

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

clear

our father’s crown. Not that it bothered Father at all. We all knew he had his eyes

stop us

already a

didn’t need more.

some of them as many

I could.

how many of my brothers.

hands, I couldn’t count

names.

I didn’t regret any of the killings. They’re weak,

kill them. The only one I

because

on him. But I waited

longer the apple

that Lucien

daughter. I thought his

with her bordered on

was his only rose among throngs of thorns. But

than the fascination

me or cared about my existence, he did provide

Something he

on how to discover other powers

how many times

to upgrade her training, my father kept

her to

So I made my own move and tried to

fell on me.

met Cordelia, the right hand of Orpheus.

the immortal seer of the

She could see the future, but

remember

needed someone to

she had her readings.

Cordelia knew

SO

I was the Prince of Lust, I never had any

succeeded when no one

the next thing I knew, I

fucking her and extracting

information from her.

me the next ruler

stronger

only one way. If Father

I thought

Lucien’s heir than

I only had two

Guillermo and Lucija.

probably visited the tower once or

had

realized the heir was not

easy act. She was only eleven at that time and knew nothing

world.

fight back. She was

to be an easy kill,

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

– 11 years

hall to fuck a female 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 no

tonight.

well. Lust might

unlike Father, I never forced any

to have sex

pleasure in being treated like a god in bed, so I

were lusting over me.

ran out of them, so

took pleasure in

him.

that I would rather be alone in my chambers,

next move

crown.

A small, but

my ears, and I knew who

Lucija.

and flashed

girl I

was pressing

the entryway pillar as if she

little one. My name is Lucius.”

with my hand and

did,

to where

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

is Lucy,” she stated as

her eyes

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

who I

as I sipped my drink without taking my eyes off her.

you know a way I can get out of here?

11

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

her head.

made you think that?”

others.

smiled at me.”

you never smiled at

them.”

you smiled at me,”

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