Percival sat at the bar, sipping a beer that he bought twenty minutes ago, it wasn't his tipple, what he wanted to drink sat two metres away.
A group of women giggled away, chatting about their, hair, nails, and boyfriends. He grew bored very quickly.
It was the blonde who caught his interest. He knew her name was Darla because he heard one of her friends ask what she wanted to drink. She appeared to be sitting back, taking in everything around her, which was what he did.
Her blue eyes even landed on him a few times, her pupils enlarging liking what she saw.
Percival knew he was good looking. When he entered a room, heads would turn to find his dark chocolate brown eyes staring back. He would often flip his raven flowing hair off his shoulders, then lift his chiselled chin giving off an air of authority.
In the human world, he was just a man to them. However, in his world, he held a place at his sire's side who ruled the only coven in the city.
The girl looked at Percival and he snarled at Camilla but she said,” You want your manhood, I am certain of that. If you do then you need to let go of the human right now.”“As much as I would have loved to have fucked you I have to let you go,” said Percival and the girl moaned at his voice and said,” You should not have done this if you had a girlfriend.”“What can I say? You are a tempting one, sweetheart,” said Percival as he looked straight in her eyes and then said,” You will recall nothing of me or this encounter or what happened with you. You need to forget that you ever came here and just recall that you had too many to drink and then you threw up and then went back to your friends.”Her eyes glazed over and she said,” Yes…I know nothing…”Then Percival turned to Camilla and she said,” You need to take me now.”“I thought that you were s
Camilla’s POVI had told you the reason that I had interrupted you with that human girl. Despite the fact that I was hot and burning with jealousy after being taken care of in such a way by you and then how easily you could leave me and go into the arms of another human. I knew that you required sustenance.But I could not. The Priestess had finally told me that what was going to break the hold of the demon on my soul. Why was Laruzen being able to bring me back to the hellscape that I so desperately wanted to get away from and the reason was simple. I had nothing to stop me here. I had nothing too pull me back to earth. The only way that I was coming back was by sheer will power and that was also not going to stop me from being demon fodder for a long.“You think that this is going to work?” Percival had asked me and I had nodded and said yes. And then the slow torture had begun.I take a minute to think about it this time, bent over th
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Dayen wasn't sure why he had been chosen as the high shaman for the clan on the day of the winter solstice. He was the youngest shaman in the clan, but old Wored had been too tired to perform the rite and had pointed silently to Dayen as his replacement. It was even more worrying that the signs hadn't been good. And now this.He dressed carefully on the morning of the equinox ceremony, putting on the golden shaman's torque with reverence, and wondered again what the chiefs were thinking to demand a virgin sacrifice. It was true that the winter had been hard, colder than normal, and the clan's food stores were low with a bad augury for the coming season, but they'd been in worse places before within Dayen's own memory, and the chiefs hadn't demanded the rite. Wored had said nothing at the meeting, merely staring into the fire with his heaviest brat around his shoulders. Cord had looked Dayen in the eye when he had pronounced the virgin to be given: Mala.Mala was outcla
Percival's POVSomehow my kingdom had been spared the onslaught of the League of Villainesses. But I knew that would not last forever, thus I called her to our world, to see if a truce could be made before any of my people would suffer.I knew she had arrived not through our meeting but by word spreading through the capital. The witch had taken residence in the most lavish inn, getting all of the rooms to herself. How... I did not know. For all her infamy I was yet to meet her. The fact wasn't something that brought me any kind of distress mind you, but it did speak volumes about her, and every little piece of help was needed. She has arrived... and played her hand already.She wanted me to come to her, so that she could make me wait. In front of my people. MY people. Well, she can get comfy at the inn, I had other duties to attend to. It was inevitable that we would meet at some point. She on the other hand would waste here time here.That was the plan u