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 53 – He’s Up To Something (PATREA)

Weeks passed, and I was still reeling from the feeling of being Lucius’ queen and the queen of two kingdoms.

Today is one of those days where I had to fulfill a duty for our demons.

“Open your palms and let your hand feed on their souls,” Lucius instructed me as w e stared at the pit of fire, where I could hear souls full of anguish and pain.

I swallowed hard, but I couldn’t raise my hand. I was slowly accepting the ways of the underworld, but my heart was shattering at the cries I could hear at the moment.

“In time, your heart will harden. The souls you hear are undeserving of your pity, whether they are judged or not in the realms they belong to. If their souls went straight to the pits of hell, it only means that they were meant to be here. They were irredeemable and had never regretted their actions. We do not throw away souls that were sincerely regretful of their misdeeds before they died. That’s why the veils of realms exist. In there, they were given time to redeem themselves before they would be judged again.”

I remained quiet, looking at the images my head conjured from the bottom of the fire pit.

“I am not saying you should not feel sorry. But those below don’t deserve your pity. “

“Do you think Lucien is there?”

“I am sure he’s there. We can pay him a visit if you want.”

“I don’t want to be reminded of him anymore.” I forced a chuckle. “And Guillermo?”

“Probably not. He might be annoying, but I don’t think he violated any rules of the realm, as my father had been doing.”

“So, you mean Nyneve is not there as well?”

“She is. I’m sure of that.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Nyneve tried to harm you and Althea. Demons could kill any demon and get away with it. That’s part of our world here. It wouldn’t taint their demons’ souls. But once they cross realms and create chaos there for no reason at all, then judgment begins.”

“And your father violated so many laws of the realms when he took humans in here for his s*e*xual pleasure.”

“He violated some in their own realms too. My father was a vicious incubus. He deserves where he is now.”

“But how about Lucy? She used her succubus form?”

“It’s part of our demon sensuality. S*e*x with an incubus or succubus is just a dream. Or nightmare, I would say. The problem is when demons make it a reality. When they get their victims pregnant, it means the act is more than a dream. It became physical.”

“So, they won’t judge Lucy for that?”

“It’s consensual. Besides, I don’t think she assaulted Stone.” He chuckled.

“Did you ever use your incubus form?”

me to

knew it would hurt, but I wanted to

but I didn’t do

you visited. Is she special?” I felt a tinge of jealousy for the

of hair behind my ear. “I did it because I wanted to f*uc*k, not

“Don’t do it again.”

I’ve got everything I want and need here with me.” A smug smirk tugged on his m*outh before his

I answered immediately as my

queen. You’re making me forget we are in the pits of

my m*outh as I chuckled softly. I totally forgot that we were here s o I could learn how to summon energy from the dead souls in hell to feed our

turned and faced the direction of the pit

and k*issed my temple before he faced the same direction I was looking and raised his hand. “Take only what you can. There’s no need to force yourself to

nodded my head, and soon, Lucius’ silent words dug into my head before the fire in front of us

in pain, but I remembered what Lucius told me,

able to take energy from them, and I would not be able

accepting that the

fingers, making my eyes snap open, and I saw electricity-like veins touching the tips of my fingers from the fire

face as I gave Lucius a wink. I felt more energy surging i n, and it excited me more. The underworld had welcomed me as part of them, and there was nothing I could

energies from the dead souls were coursing through my

made me

the tower of Athwart, overlooking the vast area that now belonged to us. “As you’d been doing every

smitten that you couldn’t find any fault with me?” I teased him before we felt a

anything you need, Simon?]” Lucius asked without

and was then assigned to be the

chained to the dungeon. Would you like to meet

stated, and Lucius turned around to face

and make room for us in there. Make sure he is isolated from the

but tipped his

“Would you like to come

want to

him.” He said it in a firm tone, and I couldn’t blame

enjoy our kingdoms as Alastor had been recruiting demons that didn’t belong to any kingdom and sending them either on Athwart or Kalmerus for

and useless compared to the demons we had, so we

like killing anyone, but killing him was far better than him using demons who just wanted to survive the underworld

Are you ready?” He asked as he squeezed my

dungeon — at the

burnt skin and rotten blood, making

of my hand as we walked to where a naked

time we finally meet again,

Alastor roared. His eyes were full red and

even step up to protect it. What kind of a king you will b e?”]

my kingdom back or I will make

a bolt of lightning shot from Lucius’ hand directly into his heart. At the same time,

my heart thudded loudly. But it was too late. The man chained to the