BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon
Chapter 73 – Calm Down Your Fire
ADAN STONE…
I grunted in discomfort as my eyes snapped open. Pain coursed from my back to every corner of my body, and it rattled me for a second until I was able to make sure that my walls were still up. I didn’t want Lucy to feel even a tiny bit of the pain her father gave me.
“Aargh…” I gr0@ned. I couldn’t roll over and couldn’t lay on my back, but compared to the pain before I fell asleep or passed out, what I had at the moment was bearable.
I closed my eyes for a moment and tried to steady my breathing, trying to process everything that had happened when Lucien walked into the dungeon and began to emotionally t*ortur*e me.
He kept telling me that Lucy was bound for greater things and that I would be her weakness. That my slightest pain and discomfort would eventually render Lucy incapable of doing her daily routine. He said Lucy would never do the same thing to me that she would protect me by taking all the pain herself.
Until it dawned on me, he wanted me to control my pain and not give it to Lucy.
And like the f*uc*king weak Alpha that I was, I succumbed – because hurting my mate was never on my list. So I put my walls up, and my wolf helped me, making sure that every burn and every whip would never get past the walls that we built around us.
I could take more. Lucien kept whipping, and I kept negotiating despite the bleeding and the pain all over my body.
He wanted me to leave, and never come back. I wanted to leave and take Lucy with me. I negotiated that he could create a direct portal to my territory and be allowed there any time to visit her, but the f*uc*king devil was too selfish. He wanted me out of Lucy’s way.
He wanted me to forget her. Or tell him where he could find the witch.
Either of the two meant the same thing: dying. Without Lucy, life would not be worth living. And if I were to give him the witch, I would be giving him the capacity to K*ll me.
But I wouldn’t go that way. I wanted a life with my mate. And it might take a while to get to the happily ever after I wanted for us, but we would get there.
In the end, Lucien whipped me like he wanted my soul out of my body. But I didn’t scream. I didn’t even growl. I took it all in, terrified that if a scream left my throat, Lucy would feel something.
I just needed to keep myself together. The more Lucien saw that his ways wouldn’t get through me, the faster he would give up on torturing me. I was still in pain, but it felt heavenly. I could smell Lucy all around me. Maybe I was still in dreamland, sleeping in my bed. Wait?
Bed? I snapped my eyes open again, and my jaw dropped when I realized I was in Lucy’s chamber. No wonder her scent was calming me down.
“Lucy…” My voice came out throaty, but I was sure it was loud enough for her to hear me if she was just around.
But there was no response. I needed water. Despite the pain, I pushed my body up at the exact moment the door opened, and I found myself locking my eyes with Lucien.
The f*uc*k! Could a man get some rest from seeing his f*uc*king face? Was he back to t*ortur*e me again? In seconds, my wrists were clamped together by an invisible f0rce before a rope appeared out of nowhere and tied them together.
A rumble formed in my chest, but I tried to act calmly. One of these days, I will f*uc*king decapitate his head and feed him to my wolf.
“It seemed my daughter broke my rule not to see you. She brought you to her chamber.” A devil’s smirk crossed his face before his gaze wandered around the bedroom. “Where is Lucija?”
When I didn’t answer, he motioned with his hands, and soon, two demons walked toward me and pulled me out of the bed. Great. I didn’t even get to see Lucy.
“[Should we take him back to the cells, my King?]” One of the demons talked in their own language while I let out a sigh. I felt so f*uc*king useless, and yet so f*uc*king tired.
“[To my throne room.]” Lucien answered and immediately disappeared.
I was soon dragged out of Lucy’s room and into-I had no idea where-but I was bracing myself for a new set of t*ortur*e coming my way.
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LUCY…
“Where did he take him?”
“At the throne room, my lady…”
I didn’t acknowledge Simon’s response and just began walking away. I could just transport myself, but I needed time to control my emotions, and the throne room was not that far.
‘Lucius…’ I reached out to my brother. If the worst happened, I needed him.
‘Aaah…’ He was gr0@ning in ple@sure.
My eyes rolled at the l*st in his voice. He was most likely f*uc*king someone at the moment. ‘Where are you?’
‘The f*uc*k, Lucija. I’m outside Kalmerus. Give me five minutes.’
‘Father is home.’ I told him, ignoring his request.
‘Oh, f*uc*k!’ I knew that one was not for.
‘I didn’t know.’
‘Obviously. Get back here. He took Adan again.’
‘And why did you let him?’
‘I have no time to explain. Satisfy yourself and come back here! Throne room!’ I snapped at him before cutting off our connection as I slid inside the corridor that would lead me to Lucien.
As I neared the hall, I was expecting noises, but there were none, and it was making my heart thump loudly. Silence could be a sign of danger.
There were demon guards outside the throne hall, but they stepped aside, giving way as I approached them. It was only when I was behind the door that I heard the crack of a whip. My heart shattered at the thought of Adan being whipped again.
My father is evil. One of these days, I’ll make him pay for his sins against Adan and my mother.
I placed both my palms on the double doors and pushed them, even without using any f0rce, they opened, and my eyes locked with my father’s. He was sitting on his throne with a smug smirk on his face.
Another swoosh of a whip erupted in the air, and my head snapped in the direction of the sound.
Adan was standing, tied to a chain, almost parallel to my father’s throne. I saw a single, thick whip swinging in the air with thin, torn spikes at the end, but no one was holding it, and it landed on Adan’s back. His body flinched, but he didn’t let out any sound, and instead of pain, his face lit up the moment our eyes. locked and a smile crawled on his lips.
I wanted to smile back at him but if I did, I would end up bawling in tears. My heart couldn’t take the sight in front of me. I just cleansed him of his blood, and he was now bloody again, everywhere. His blood was dropping to the tiled floor, mixed with his sweat. It was too much for my eyes and my heart to take.
‘I’m sorry.’ I mouthed at him as tears pooled in my eyes but I blinked them back before they could fall and dropped my gaze away from him to face Lucien.
I felt the heat arising from my body, and my eyes were reflecting red on the golden. armrest of his throne.
“Calm down your fire, Lucija, or he will get more of this!”
“Open your walls, Adan!” I shouted.
“No.” He answered calmly behind me, and it made my jaw twitch as my hands. coiled into tight fists.
If my father was evil, Adan was stubborn. Both wanted to show they were superior, and it was pissing me off. I hissed as fire engulfed my body, and a loud crack came from behind me. This time, Adan growled in pain, and my heart stopped.
“Calm down your fire!” Lucien shouted as he cracked another whip. Adan didn’t growl this time, but I could hear the rumble from his chest.
And I knew I was losing this. I stead*ied my breathing and willed my body to calm down, and soon the fire around me disappeared. I wanted to turn around and look at Adan, but I didn’t want to see him suffer, it was enough that I could hear him breathing.
“What do you want from us?” I yelled at Lucien.
“From you. Lucija, only from you. I have no use for that bastard.” Lucien answered in a calm manner as if he was not torturing someone behind me.
“Then leave him alone!”
“I can. But can you?”