Contractually Yours, Alpha by Giftemmy

Chapter Two Hundred and One

My thoughts drifted to Ash. Could he have been stupid enough to come back here with Daemon present?

Something told me Daemon wouldn’t be pleased about me seeing him behind his back.

A small sense of relief washed over me when I realized the footsteps approaching weren’t from a man. There was something feminine, something familiar about them.

It was Empress Julia.

Of course, I would recognize the sound of her footsteps; I had spent over a decade of my life listening to them.

Daemon seemed genuinely surprised. “How did you find this place?” he asked.

“I can’t say. You see, it’s a small secret, Trian–I guess that’s the name you stole.”

Daemon’s eyes drifted from her face to the object she held in her hand: the Nexus Amulet. She had somehow gotten it out of the transparent glass container–perhaps that explained the noise that had alerted us we weren’t alone.

Daemon

Not

he was about to lunge

before you even move an inch, and I’ll be

to himself, as if in denial.

smile widen.

she said in a singsong

feel the tension thickening in the air.

got me to trust you. I can’t believe we actually… had sex–though, that wasn’t part of the bad stuff.”

her trust.

same.” He responded, and Julia’s

years on earth, no one had ever made me feel so stupid,” she muttered. I was about to throw in something like ‘You and me both,‘ but I

didn’t just fool me–you fooled us all. Here I thought a good–looking man was wasting away in the pit, only you weren’t there. You saw an opening and you took it. What I can’t understand is why you kept her alive, even with the knowledge that

response from Daemon.

cut to the chase. The