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

would hurt, but I wanted to know everything about him before I came into his

but I didn’t do

tinge of jealousy for the

behind my ear. “I did it because I wanted to f*uc*k, not because of anything. I f*uc*k, and I move on. I can’t even remember the females I visited,

“Don’t do it again.”

did it because of peer pressure. I was a young demon then. Besides, I’ve got everything I want and need here with me.” A smug smirk tugged on his m*outh before his eyes turned full red. “I am more than happy to

willing to take all of it,” I

like that, my queen. You’re making me forget we are in the pits of hell, and we need

forgot that we were here s o I could

and faced the direction of the pit of

and raised his hand. “Take only what you can. There’s no need to force yourself to take many, as it’s a heavy load. I can

silent words dug into my head before the fire in front of us swirled

my heart kept clenching in pain, but I remembered what Lucius told me, so I tried my

take energy from them,

spread its fingers wide open, accepting that the souls below were

eyes snap open, and I saw electricity-like veins touching the tips of my fingers from the fire all around us. My eyes darted to Lucius, and our eyes locked.

more energy surging i

the dead souls were

knew I would be able to provide for our demons. It made me feel important. I would not be given this privilege if I

Lucius told me as he squeezed my hand that he was holding. We were in the tower of Athwart, overlooking the vast area that now belonged to us. “As you’d been doing every

with me?” I

you need, Simon?]” Lucius asked without

assigned to be the main demon of Athwart in

taken and chained to the dungeon. Would you

and Lucius turned around to face him, taking

us in there. Make

answer but tipped his

faced me, his knuckles running down my cheek. “Would you like

want to

He said it in a firm tone,

recruiting demons that didn’t belong to any

we knew he was up to something more. He was using them as a decoy to

killing anyone, but killing him was far better than

ready?” He asked as he squeezed my hand, and I nodded my

in the dungeon —

and smelled of burnt skin and

as we walked to where a naked demon was

about time we finally meet again, Alastor.]” Lucius

His eyes were full red and swirling

What kind of

I will make sure I

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

swirled around my body, and m y hair rose up while my heart thudded loudly. But it was too late. The man chained to the wall dropped dead. His