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

came back here most of the

had come

clear

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

stop us from

already

I didn’t need more.

of them as

I could.

how

hands, I couldn’t count anymore.

names.

any of the killings. They’re weak, otherwise, I

kill them. The

was Guillermo because

on him. But I waited patiently until it dawned on me

the apple of his eye.

was the moment that Lucien found

a daughter. I

bordered on

thorns. But as the years went by,

than the fascination of

cared about my existence, he did

be stronger. Something he never

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

how many times Gargon,

father kept refusing. He

her to

and Father wasn’t telling anyone. So I made my own move and

fell on me.

the right hand of Orpheus.

the immortal seer of

see the future, but

couldn’t remember it afterward,

someone to be with her

she had her

Cordelia knew everything.

SO

Prince of Lust, I never had any problem making

when

next thing I knew, I

her and

information from her.

next ruler of

be stronger than my father. And killing him or her would

was only one way. If Father died, the prophesied ruler

that time, I thought it would

heir

had two targets in mind.

Guillermo and Lucija.

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

attention had shifted elsewhere.

the heir was not one

been an easy act. She was only eleven at

world.

could never fight back. She

an easy kill, but one

encounter changed everything.

***FLASHBACK***

– 11 years old 3

remaining whisky in

tonight.

had no one to fuck as well. Lust might be in my blood,

Father, I

have sex

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

lusting over

ran out of them, so I had

in taking females who refused

him.

of those nights that I would

my next move to

crown.

A small, but clear girl’s voice.

and I knew who it was.

Lucija.

flashed her a wide

I was hoping

was pressing

as if she wanted to get

little one. My name is Lucius.” I

hand and asked

she did, but she

Victorian couch adjacent to where I was

her on many occasions, and Father had introduced her to

name is Lucy,” she stated as she

straight, her eyes looking directly at

mine.

“You mean Lucija?”

know who I

my head as I sipped my drink without taking my

you know a way I can get out

11

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

nodded her head.

made you think

others.

smiled at me.”

you never

them.”

But you smiled at

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