BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha's Little Demon by Cassandra M

BRAVING THE DARKNESS: One Night With The Demon King

BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon Book 2

Chapter 50 – The Gift (LUCIUS)

His eyes blazed red, and I saw confusion flit through them, but it was gone in seconds. “Tell me what you want, Lucius.”

“I want you to break Lucien’s curse on Patrea’s, linking my bloodline to be fatal for her. Including the nightmares she was having.”

“Are you afraid you will kill your queen?”

“Not me, Hades. I will kill myself first before I even think of that. But I have hundreds of siblings and quite a number of offspring, making each one a danger for my queen.”

“Are you sure about this? Don’t you want an heir, Lucius? Like the one Lucija has?”

“What will I do with an heir if I don’t have Patrea anymore?” I asked back.

“Do you know how much Patrea wants to give you a child? Don’t you want to give her something her heart desires?”

“Her life is far more important to me than a child.”

“You are being selfish. You wanted her alive for yourself, but what about your queen? Doesn’t she deserve to have what she wants?”

“I’m a demon, Hades. Let me be selfish.”

His laughter echoed around us, and I was slowly losing my stance. I would give everything to Patrea, even my own life, but did she want a child? Was it because it was what I wanted?

Would she hate me if she found out I wished for her life instead of the child?

But Patrea was not a selfish female. She would never hate me for wanting her alive. Didn’t she fight and abandon her own realm to be with me? So, she could spend more time with me?

“Do you need more time to think?”

Hades interrupted me from my thoughts. “No. My wish is final.”

“I will think about it.” He answered.

“You can’t do that. You owed me that wish.”

“Did you forget who you were speaking with, Lucius?”

“You can’t just back down on something you promise to give. I knew you could do i t, as your demon performed the curse.”

would

I wait before I

don’t know. Now leave my presence, King of Kalmerus. I

needed it to take effect as Patrea’s life might be in danger once the rumor spread that I already had a queen. “I just want to know

shooting fire everywhere

had just destroyed a

disappearing and appearing in the dungeon. I asked for the prisoner that was due

needed to let my anger out. I didn’t want to face Patrea while I was still upset and furious with Hades, or my emotions would betray me.

PATREA.

told me to make sure I would not stay there for a long time, as Lucius might freak out and blast her if he found out I went there on my own. To

I entered the bedroom I usually

had been calling for him for quite some

up. Maybe I was not that important in his eyes to be prioritized like Lucius

There were other demons that he obviously favored that

before I could touch the door knob, my body was sucked into limbo, and my foot landed on solid ground, but I almost lost my footing as I was

it was only then that I saw Hades sitting on what must

head down before I acknowledged him.

persistent demon before you that I was attending to.” He explained. “Oh, I hope I

glad you summoned

had no idea how to answer that. “I believe you wanted something from

here to take the

Lucien’s curse to be lifted up? So, Lucius’ blood will no longer pose a threat

this and the spell I had created in my body. But the desire I had to provide an heir for my king was greater than my desire to be

He said this as he rubbed his hand against his chin while

be able to conceive. One child is enough,

from me?”

Lucius? A security that none of his siblings will come and

Hades, but I

the gift of unbinding you from all the curses

closed my hands, coiling them into tight fists, before I blinked back the tears

something I would not be

“I don’t understand.”

the spell on your own, Patrea, with the help of your spirits. The enchantment in your body is not my or my demons doing.

devilish smirk crossed his face as

you are willing to trade something more for the

my soul as he did with

or

come here without Lucius. I hope whatever

from his chest as sweat formed on my forehead. I

I would want to summon Lucius here, but before I could say anything, a flash of light like lightning came a few feet to Hades’

gone, and a beautiful female with silver hair stood on the spot where the