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 answer

head. I knew it would hurt, but I wanted to know everything about him before I came into his

but I didn’t do a physical

girl you visited. Is she special?” I felt a tinge of jealousy for the human or species for whom

face turned serious as he tucked a stray strand of hair 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.”

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

it,” I

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

we were here s o I could learn how to summon energy from the dead souls in hell to feed our

sorry, I forgot.” I turned and faced the direction of the pit of fire before extending my hand up. “I’m ready when

faced the same direction I was looking and raised his hand. “Take only what you can. There’s no need to force yourself to take many, as it’s

dug into my head before the fire in

what Lucius told me, so I tried my best to

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

its fingers wide open, accepting that the souls

into my fingers, making my 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

A smirk formed on my face as I gave Lucius a wink. I felt more energy surging i n, and

this moment, as energies from the dead souls were coursing through my whole

able to provide for our demons. It made me feel important. I

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

any fault with me?” I teased him before we felt a presence

anything you need, Simon?]”

assigned to be the main

king. He was taken and chained to the dungeon.

to face him,

ahead and make room for us in

answer but tipped his head

me, his knuckles running down my cheek. “Would you like to come with me, or would you

want to see

in a

kingdoms as Alastor had been recruiting demons that didn’t belong

demons that he was using were weak and useless compared to the demons we had, so we knew he was up to something more. He was using them

witness that, my king.” I didn’t like killing anyone, but killing him was far better than him using demons

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

appeared in the dungeon — at the deepest part of

was dark and smelled of burnt skin and rotten

walked to

finally meet again, Alastor.]” Lucius greeted

kingdom!]” Alastor roared. His eyes were full red and swirling

protect it. What kind of a king you will b

make sure I kill your queen

to finish his words when a bolt of lightning shot from Lucius’ hand directly into his heart.

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 heart burned