Beneath Her Darkness: The Alpha's Little Demon by Cassandra M novel Chapter 71

BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon Chapter 71

071 – Future Ruler of Kalmerus

LUCIUS.

I transported us to Lucija’s chamber, and I helped her put Stone in her bed. I knew she had many questions, but at the moment, she wasn’t asking any. She was busy attending to her mate and it was to my advantage. I didn’t want to tell her

anything more at the moment than what

she needed to know.

“I have to go now. I have other things to do,” I told her after a while of watching her clean up Stone’s body.

He looked like he was fucking dead to me, but his chest was moving, which meant he was still alive.

“But… what if I need you?” Lucija stood up from the bed and faced me.

“Then reach out to me. I won’t block my

mind.”

“Do you think Lucien will come back

soon?”

“I don’t think so. He wants to find the witch, so I’m sure he will search the whole North for her.”

“Will you let me know if he returns?”

“Of course. But what are your plans? Will

you return Stone to his cell?”

“No. Definitely not. I just want to be prepared when he comes back because

I’m sure he will raise hell if he finds out I took him out of the dungeons.”

“Raise hell? You’re already in hell.” I chuckled before I let out a deep sigh, and my expression turned serious. “Lucija, you need to control your fire. If you snap and your fire comes out, you can burn the

whole place. And it won’t kill Lucien, me, or any other demons, but I am sure it will affect the man there, and it will backfire

on you.”

She nodded her head, but I wanted to make sure she understood the severity of letting out fire uncontrolled.

“If I’m not around to remind you, you need to remind yourself to calm down. You have a wolf, right?”

She nodded her head.

“Make her useful. Tell her to remind you so she has some use here and not just resting there in your head.”

Lucija’s mouth twitched as her eyes dilated, but it was just for a few seconds. Her wolf was trying to surface, which impressed me because, despite the enchantment around the tower, she was able to show me a glimpse of her through

Lucija’s eyes.

I chuckled as I pointed at her. “I made

your wolf angry. Remind me to stay away once you can shift.”

“My wolf is not useless.” She glared at me.

“Whatever,” I said before turning around and disappearing from her room without saying anything else.

I transported my body on the stairs going up to my room. I could have gone directly inside my chamber, but I wanted time to think, and walking helped.

My mind had been racing for the past few days. I literally had no idea what my next

move would be. There were many

speculations in my head, and I didn’t

know what to believe anymore.

But one thing I knew for sure: I needed

Lucija on my side.

I might be older than her, but I knew she had a power far greater than mine. How did I find out? I wasn’t born yesterday. If you’d been living around my father,

Lucien, for decades, you would get to know him inside and out.

He had never behaved strangely until Lucija moved in with us.

I had always known that by the time he retired as the ruler of Kalmerus,

Guillermo was most likely to take over. Guillermo was three centuries older than

me, and Lucien had always favored him over everyone else, including me.

Of course, why would he choose me? I

was nothing. My mother was a she- demon slave. She left me at the gates of the tower on the very same day that I was

born and never came back. I didn’t even

know her name. Lucien was responsible

enough to take me in but other than that, I didn’t receive any personal attention.

from him.

He probably didn’t know how to raise his

own son.

Almost all my brothers were brought up

by their mothers and were only

summoned by Lucien the moment they

turned fifteen. Some of them stayed in

the tower with us, but the moment they came of age at eighteen, they moved away

and made a life of their own.

I also moved out and had my own place,

but I came back here most of the time.

And like me, some of my brothers had come back and made their intentions.

clear

they wanted our father’s crown. Not that it bothered Father at all. We all knew he had his eyes set on Guillermo.

But it did not stop us from still wanting it.

Guillermo was already a tough

competitor to beat. I didn’t need more. So

I eliminated some of them as many as

I could.

If you asked me how many of my brothers.

died in my hands, I couldn’t count anymore. I couldn’t even remember their

names.

And no. I didn’t regret any of the killings. They’re weak, otherwise, I would not be

able to kill them. The only one I couldn’t

touch was Guillermo because I knew my

father had his eyes on him. But I waited patiently until it dawned on me that he

was no longer the apple of his eye.

It was the moment that Lucien found out

that he had a daughter. I thought his

fascination with her bordered on the fact

that she was his only rose among throngs of thorns. But as the years went by, I felt

there was something more than the fascination of having a daughter.

Although my father was never hands-on with me or cared about my existence, he did provide me with everything I needed

to be stronger. Something he never gave

to Lucija. Lucija was trained on the basics, but never on how to discover other powers within her. She was never taught to explore many more possibilities.

And no matter how many times Gargon,

Lucija’s fire master, requested to upgrade her training, my father kept refusing. He didn’t want her to move forward. He

didn’t want her to be stronger.

Something was going on, and Father wasn’t telling anyone. So I made my own move and tried to find the answer. Until it

fell on me.

I met Cordelia, the right hand of Orpheus.

Orpheus was the immortal seer of the

underworld. She could see the future, but

she couldn’t remember it afterward,

she needed someone to be with her

whenever she had her readings.

So Cordelia knew everything.

SO

Since I was the Prince of Lust, I never had any problem making her fall for my

allure. I succeeded when no one had.

Because the next thing I knew, I was

already fucking her and extracting

information from her.

She told me the next ruler of Kalmerus

was not yet determined, whether a male or a female, but the ruler would be stronger than my father. And killing him or her would also end my father’s life.

But it was only one way. If Father died, the prophesied ruler would still survive.

At that time, I thought it would be easier

to kill Lucien’s heir than him.

So I only had two targets in mind.

Guillermo and Lucija.

But then I began noticing Guillermo’s absence in his life. In fact, I haven’t seen him in the last decade. He had probably visited the tower once or twice, but never as often as in previous decades when Father would always summon him to come to him.

Father’s attention had shifted elsewhere.

It was then that I realized the heir was not one of the sons, but his only daughter.

Killing Lucija would have been an easy act. She was only eleven at that time and knew nothing about power or the demon