Here's for today! Thank you for waiting and reading! Christmas holiday/weekend officially started in my family, (and we are on the road at the moment) so I might be sporadic with updates until the 26th or 27th, but I will try to drop something as much as I can since I missed many days this month already. I hope you're all having a great holiday, lovelies! Don't forget to gift us with gems this Christmas! [I feel like a grinch stealing gems! lol!] đ€
PATREA. I watched as Lucius tried to pacify Alpha Stone. I knew I could easily protect myself, but the last thing I wanted was to hurt the Alpha if he attacked me because he was not the enemy here, so I was thankful Lucius was taking a stand to stop him. I still had no idea what Lucius had in mind. He never shared his plan â either he didnât trust me or he had no concrete plan at all. But maybe he just didnât have time to tell me yet since he only showed up today. "Not just any demon. I want you to practice taking my form." Lucius told Alpha Stone as if he were just telling him to shop for new clothes. I was trying to keep my silence, but I couldnât keep it this time. "Are you planning to bring him to the underworld again and pretend to be you?" "Relax, I will lay out all the plans tomorrow, but first we need his memory back. That way he will remember things about the underworld, and I donât need to spend hours explaining them to him." "But how will you bring him there?" "Thatâ
LUCY."And whatâs the problem with that?" Father asked as if he was just asking why I wasn't eating my vegetables."I am doing whatever you want me to do, but being mated to Guillermo is going too far. So no, I am not doing that." I only had one mate. There was no way I would let another man touch me."You can choose between Guillermo and Lucius. But Lucius is still weak. You and Guillermo will make a strong ruler of Kalmerus." "I donât need a man to stand beside me. I can rule this kingdom without Guillermo or anyone." I answered bravely as I adjusted my hair, making sure the mark Adan gave me was not visible. I had tried to cover it up with some simple demon magic, but I couldn't perfect it. I had to ask Lucius how he hid Adan's mark - if only he would show himself to me."You donât even know many things in this realm, and having Guillermo around would help you.""But youâre still here. You can teach me. Stop pushing Guillermo or I will just cut myself off and end all of this.""En
ADAN STONE."Alpha Fabian, I'm glad to see you again." I greeted the Alpha of the Silver Crest the moment I stepped out of the car in front of his packhouse.He took and shook my hand as he responded. "Pleasure is mine, Alpha Stone. I thought Blade would come with you.""Is he not here?" I asked, my brows furrowing."No. Itâs been over a year since the last time he showed up here. So when I heard he was in your territory weeks ago, I was hoping he would come and check on me.""I have no idea where he is at the moment." It was the truth. The trackers I sent to contact Althea reached Collin with the news that Althea was at the Fortuna Coven but Blade was not."Typical Blade. I would be the last one on his priority list." He let out a sigh before he flashed a smile, something that didnât reach his eyes. "Anyway, enough about my brother. My Beta will show you the area you can use. Itâs in the middle of the forest, away from the residential area, and usually not visited by my people. So itâ
ADAN STONE. My head throbbed as I stared at the ceiling, and it took a moment before I remembered where I was. I closed my eyes and thought about Lucy, wanting to know if I could remember her from my own memories. Tears trickled down my face as everything came rushing in from the moment I first saw her until the moment I was whipped and she ordered Patrea to take my memory away. Those were my memories, not Beast. And I could feel every emotion she stirred in me from day one until the day I marked her. You will never know the importance of memories until they are taken away from you. I couldn't believe I almost lost all of these. âI love you, Adan. I need you to trust me. I promise I will come back for you.â Those were her last words before I marked her and before I lost consciousness. She still wanted me. She just didn't want me there. But Lucius was right â there's no way Lucy could do this alone. I forced my body up from the bed and slipped on my running shoes before I walked
LUCY. "Everyone out!" I kept flicking my fingers and hurrying Gargon and the two demons to move and go away from the fire tower "But weâre not done for today." Gargonâs forehead creased as he looked at me. "I didnât ask for your opinion." "If you want to learn more, you canât just cancel anytimeâŠ" "Question my decisions one more time, and you will lose your ability to speak. Now get off here and bring your minions with you. Out!" I hissed before I set every goal around us on fire. It didnât escape my ears the way Gargon hissed, but he didnât say more and instead motioned for the demons to follow him as he made his way out. âYou can come up now. You better transport your body here, or you will meet Gargon by the stairs. They just headed out.â I was not even finished with my words to Lucius when he appeared inside the tower, and he immediately locked the door, pushing the big block of wood barricading the entrance. I snickered before shaking my head. "As if the lock would sto
LUCY. My mind and body were already tired, but I kept going. Lucius brought me to a place I had never been before. It looked like a cave, but it wasnât - it was just endless darkness, and the only source of light was the torches he placed in every corner surrounding us. Iâd been trying to shift into my succubus form, and it kept getting harder because Angel was fighting it. Every time I shifted into one, she was out of my head, and she wasnât liking that. And with our location away from the tower, she was able to use her own strength against mine. My wolf wanted to trust Lucius, but she didnât want me to make the wrong decision. She didnât want me away from her. But I wanted to take the risk. I wanted to see Adan, even in his dreams, or what they called 'nightmares.' "But without my wolf with me and just a demon soul, would I still go into heat?" I asked Lucius after finding out I would not be able to take Angel with me in my succubus form. "You shouldnât even be thinking about
ADAN STONE. I barely slept last night, but it was way past midnight when we all went to bed. I was sharing a room with Kingston, and we spent the whole time just talking and discussing things that he was supposed to do if I were successful in entering the demon realm. I knew selling my soul to Lucius would be the easiest way in â a big risk to take if he died but I needed more than the assurance that I would be able to come out alive. I wanted a guarantee that I could leave the realm anytime I wanted with Lucija beside me. Both of us - alive. The best option was Hades. With Lucija being a demon princess and me being mated to her, I had a high chance that Hades would come if I summoned him, according to Patrea. I didnât know such things existed for supernatural beings, because I had no idea if we could summon Selene whenever we wanted. But perhaps this was only possible for special werewolves or lycans. And I was not one of those. But I would try Hades. The only problem was - I
LUCIUS. I got bored waiting while they were eating, so I began to taunt Adan. But I couldnât use fire since I wasnât sure if Lucien was watching his fiber, so I used other weapons instead. Adan was surely improving, and he knew what he was doing. He was practically the exact counterpart of Lucija â he learned just as fast as her. I needed him so he could fight off the rest of the demons while Lucija and I tackled our father. But from the way he summoned fire as if he owned them and how strong they were, I was sure he could fight off Guillermo and maybe even Lucien. I didnât know he could be that strong after such a short period. I wasnât lying when I said that hatred and the desire to hurt the other party involved making a demonâs power stronger â but I wasnât expecting him to go all out just after a day of training him. It took me decades to learn how to fire multiple fireballs, but he was able to do it within 24 hours. In my defense, I was young then, and despite being a demon
Lovelies, the long wait is over. BEYOND THE DARKNESS: The Alpha's Little Witch - the third installment of the INTO THE DARKNESS SAGA is finally live on this app! Synopsis: Five years after the death of his fated mate, Alpha Blade found himself lost in the abyss of life. He had abandoned his pack and chose to lead a mercenary life to avenge the death of Soledad. But even after justice was served, he felt empty, and the need to take more lives had become his way of life.With too much blood in his hands, he became ruthless and cold-hearted, with no direction, no goal, and no will to surviveâuntil destiny decided to play a cruel joke on him and gave him a light witch for a second-chance mate. Confused and not wanting to betray the memory of his first mate, Blade fought against the new bond the Goddess gave him, only to find himself being drawn more to the young witch who was slowly lighting up the darkness surrounding him. But when lies, betrayals, and secrets come to light, will
3 MONTHS AFTER PART 1 Epilogue PATREA. âDonât you fucking dare to cut my skin!â I screamed as another contraction hit my body. I could only count the number of times I swore, but today had been exceptional. I couldnât stop myself from throwing curses and bad words at my king. I was in labor, and the baby was ready to come out. Lucius was the only one with me since demon childbirth was never a problem. Demons could even give birth on their own. Maybe we were so relaxed that we forgot that I was still part human and witch. âI have to take it out. Iâll cut and heal it back!â Lucius explained in a loud voice. âI donât fucking like seeing you whimper like that!â âNO! No! No! I want to feel my child coming out of my pussy!â âPatrea!â He hissed, his forehead was sweaty, and I could feel the whole chamber getting too warm. âGet out!! I glared at him. But I didnât mean it. I was just in too much pain, and his worried expression was not helping at all. âNo fucking way that I will l
Five years after.LUCIUS. Patrea was sitting on the low boulder while watching Luther, and I do our training for today. Lucija and Stone would take Luther here in the underworld from time to time so we could spend time with him and let him familiarize himself with the demons.For the longest time, they were taking Luther here and would sometimes leave him with us for a few hours just because they wanted to have time alone.But I knew there was more to it than that. They wanted us to experience having a child.After five years, Patrea and I were still not given any. I was slowly coming to terms with it, but that didnât mean I was losing hope. I never stopped wishing for a child every time I fucked my queen, but I had stopped telling her I was doing it.Patrea and I never talked about it anymore. I could still feel sadness in her from time to time, but it didnât make me feel less loved by her, and I was returning the love she was giving me tenfold more.We would always be great kings a
PATREA. Five nights ago, I told Lucius I was ready to take our relationship to the next level. I was ready to have a baby with him. A demon pregnancy could be detected a few hours after mating. But five days later, there was still nothing. I stared blankly at the mirror inside the bathroom that Lucius had custom-made for me. I felt empty. I felt useless. I knew Guinevere wasnât lying when she reversed the spell I did on my body, and I was sure Lucius could get any female pregnant if he didnât stop himself from producing one. So it must be me. Maybe my actual human age has something to do with this. I was not getting older in physical form, but perhaps I was past the stage of childbearing. And it hurts. It hurt more now than it did the first time when I thought I could not give him an heir because, this time, I expected it to be possible. Lucius seemed to not mind, but he might just be good at hiding it. Because it was the same thing I was showing him, but deep inside, I was
PATREA. âFollow me.â His voice came out so deep and hoarsely that I didnât even have second thoughts and just followed him. âIs this the right area?â He asked as he stopped in the archive section at row number 35. âYes.â âNow, what do we need to do with all these books?â âPlace them back. The books are in alphabetical order, so they should be placed in their right spot.â I was not done talking yet when seven books rose in the air and went to their exact place. My eyebrows rose as I stepped back until I was out of the aisle. I checked if anyone was nearby, but then the archive section was at the far end of the entrance, and usually, only scholars or those doing special studies go to this spot, so it was safe to say no one saw that. I walked back and stopped a few feet away from him, watching as he laid the rest of the books on the wooden stool ladder. âYou need to put them back as well,â I told him. âWe will put the rest aside once weâre done with the reason we came here.â H
PATREA. After my coronation as Queen of two Underworld kingdoms, our lives returned to normal. So far, it had been so peaceful and perfect that I felt something terrible would happen. But Lucius eased my worry by telling me that the underworld was only chaotic if the kingdoms were not on good terms. As far as he knew, everyone was minding their own business, and the regular souls would just come and plunge themselves into hell. So I tried not to mind it and just lived the best days of my life with him. Today we decided to cross into the human realm and visit an old friend, or, should I say, an annoying neighbor. I missed normality, so here we were, driving the car into the house I used to share with Althea. I would take personal items and return the key to the house owner. And after that, we would go to the library so I could file my irrevocable resignation letter. As much as I could forget all about it, I made friends in the library, and I didnât want them to keep thinking abo
LUCIUS. âHadesâŠâ Luther just said his first word. It was a bit gurgled, but I could fully understand it. âThe fuck! I spent fucking days teaching him to say âdad,â and I kept bribing him with sweets and fire, just for him to end up saying Hadesâ name first?â Stone cursed in my head. His jaw tightened, and I knew he was stopping himself from growling. âBe thankful itâs Hades. Youâll be more pissed off if his first word is Lucius.â I chuckled. âJust accept that your son is more of a demon than a wolf.â He didnât say anything, but he knew I was telling the truth. Hades walked toward us and handed Luther to Lucija before he faced Patrea and me. âKing Hades, it is an honor to have you at our banquet today,â Patrea stated as she tipped her down before looking at him again. âIt would be a disappointment if I missed it. I never had a queen for my kings for many centuries now, so it is rightful that I appeared here.â He replied before he extended his hand to Patrea. âCome here, Que
LUCIUS. My eyes roamed around the vast banquet that was prepared for the formal rise of the King and Queen of Kalmerus and Athwart. I was glad that I didnât hold a feast for me so that I was able to share this coronation with Patrea. The big hall was already filled with guests from the other two kingdoms of the Underworld: the Kings and their offspring. Some of my siblings and my own spawn had arrived. They had yet to meet Patrea. Celebrations like this were usually done in demon forms, but since Patrea was only half demon, I requested everyone to present themselves in their human form, and it seemed that no one was objecting as everyone came in presentable clothes. Also, from what I heard, even the kings were eager to see my queen, probably because the Underworld had never had a queen in a long time, even centuries before me. A smug smirk tugged on my mouth at the sight of Lucija and Stone. They took Luther with them, and even though he was just a few months old, his aura was st
PATREA. Weeks passed, and I was still reeling from the feeling of being Luciusâ queen and the queen of two kingdoms. Today is one of those days where I had to fulfill a duty for our demons. âOpen your palms and let your hand feed on their souls,â Lucius instructed me as we stared at the pit of fire, where I could hear souls full of anguish and pain. I swallowed hard, but I couldnât 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. âIn 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. Thatâs why the veils of realms exist. In there, they were given time to redeem