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?”

want me to

wanted to know everything about him before I came

did, but I didn’t

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

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.

“Don’t do it again.”

I 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

of it,” I answered immediately as my l*ips curled into a

forget we are in

totally forgot that we were here s o I could learn how to summon energy from the dead souls

and faced the direction of the pit of fire 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 take many, as it’s a heavy load. I can take care of

before the fire in front of

in pain, but I remembered what Lucius told me, so I tried my best to keep my

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

my eyes as my hand spread its fingers wide open, accepting that the souls below were rotten souls,

from the fire all around

on my 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

dead souls were coursing through my whole

made me feel important. I would not

holding. We were in the tower of Athwart, overlooking

too smitten that you couldn’t find any fault with me?” I teased him

Simon?]” Lucius

assigned to be the main demon of Athwart in

was taken and chained to

stated, and Lucius turned around to face him,

us in there. Make sure he

didn’t answer but tipped his head

down my cheek. “Would you like to come with me, or would you rather

want to

in a

had been recruiting demons that didn’t belong to any kingdom and sending them either on Athwart or Kalmerus for suicide

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

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

ready?” He asked as he squeezed my

seconds, our bodies appeared in the dungeon — at the deepest part of

and smelled of burnt skin

as we walked to

time we finally meet

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

even step up to protect it. What kind

my kingdom back or I will make sure I

not able to finish his words when a bolt of lightning shot from Lucius’ hand

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