Chapter 1. The Encounter

“Change your dress. Put on some makeup, and I’ll be waiting for you downstairs. Hurry!" Michael pointed out his order to his daughter, Eva. Eva rejected it by shaking her head.

“No, I will not leave!” Michael lost his sanity. He pulled Eva’s wrist from the room while Eva cried to ask for help.

“You must be very proud of yourself for helping your sister, right?” Michael gritted his teeth as anger rose toward his second daughter. Eva was gasping for air because she almost could not cope with the tension. She has helped her sister to run away from their father’s evil plan.

“But she is pregnant, Daddy. Miranda should not marry another man but her boyfriend!” Eva half-shouted to her dad with her delicate tone.

“What?! Do you know what you both have done to me now? Mr. Xander must find out now that Miranda has been running away. Soon we’ll be dead. Now you must encounter him yourself!”

“I can’t do that, Daddy. Please let me go!” Eva tried to grab her father’s arm to find some mercy on him, but Michael yanked her. Eva was breathing heavily while Michael pointed at her face to warn her.

“Now you can’t find your sister in an hour, you must come with me to the hotel and take her place!” Michael growled with a sharp gaze at Eva. Eva rejected the idea immediately. She kept begging Michael to let her go. Instead of taking his first daughter to marry Gabriel, Michael forced Eva to take the consequences.

“Please, Daddy. Don’t force me to meet him. I don’t want to meet the Devil!” Eva pleaded with her blurry, stunning blue orbs. Michael showed no remorse for her pleading at all. He must save the company before Xander “The Devil” recognizes the situation.

“Help me! Please, Daddy, don’t force me!” Eva yelled and tried to run away from her father. Eva’s dad, Micheal forced her to get to the car so they could get to the hotel.  Michael’s heart was racing so fast. He only has a little time to save his company and wealth. Therefore, he has no choice but to force Eva.

“Shut up and do as I said!” Michael forced her again yet Eva lost her balance and fell on the lobby floor of their house. When Micheal wanted to grab her wrist, Eva tried to escape. One of the bodyguards caught her easily.

“Let me go, let me go! Help me!” Eva squirmed herself from the hold but she was not as strong as the bodyguard. Michael lost his temper and chose the easiest way to end everything. When Eva tried to resist, Micheal took a handkerchief filled with drugs and sedated Eva by pushing it in her mouth. The drug made Eva lose her strength. She could not move and soon lost consciousness.

Micheal mercilessly sacrificed his second daughter to save his business as well as his life. Eva was bawling her eyes out when Michael carried her to his car. Her 19th birthday would arrive in two days. However, she must take Miranda’s place to marry an unknown stranger. Now, Eva was helplessly put in a car.

Once Micheal was in his car, his phone rang. As predicted, it did not take a long time for Micheal to ease. The Devil called him because his bride did not show up yet.

“I think you heard everything about me, Mr. Alexander. I’d like to destroy things that I hate. It’s including a man who tells lies,” said Gabriel in his low, husky voice. Michael trembled to his core. Gabriel was well known as a merciless, powerful billionaire. He’s a man with no second chance.

“No worries, Mr. Xander. My daughter is on her way to see you. She is just coming home from the beauty salon.” Michael lied to save his life with his pace breath.

“She has 15 minutes, or do not bother to come at all.”

“Yes, of course. Please do not stop your financial aid for my company.” Michael tried his best to negotiate. Instead of answering, Gabriel cut the lines. Michael’s heart was racing so fast. These precious 15 minutes must save his company and wealth.

The car drove straight to the hotel. Once they got there, Michael carried Eva to an executive elevator.

Michael quickly placed her daughter inside a presidential suite room that had two men on duty. He put her on a cozy, beautiful main king bed. “I brought what he wants,” Michael said to one of the guards. The guard did not reply to him. Instead, they pushed Michael to leave the room.

When Michael went out, a man came to see him. He has sharp eyes with two different colors in both.

“Mr. Ludacris, my daughter is inside the room now,” Micheal talked to Cheyne Ludacris, The Devil’s right hand.

“Why is she faint? Do you sedate her?” Cheyne kept gazing up sharply with his cold expression toward Micheal.

“I have to. I think Mr. Xander will not mind at all.” Micheal grinned awkwardly while Cheyne kept on his cold demeanor. Seconds later, The Devil appeared from the corridor behind Cheyne. Micheal’s eyes almost pop out of his fear.

Those sharp eyes were golden unlike naturally human after all. Yet, Micheal bravely came to ask The Devil for his help.

“Mr. Xander?” Micheal tremblingly called his name.

“Where is she?” The Devil half growled with his low husky tone.

“In your room, Mr. Xander.” The Devil only glanced at Cheyne who gave a small nod. Without uttering words, The Devil walked inside the suite and locked the door. Once he stepped inside, he smelled something he had been waiting for a hundred years.

The room was peacefully quiet when The Devil walked to the bed, He saw a petite young lady lying on it. His heart thumped hard, and his desire started to peak when he laid his eyes on her. He had never seen the lady before. Moreover, none of the women on his bed ever did that to him.

As he came closer, she became more tempting. Her beautiful smell and blood attracted him so much. “Are you truly my Luna?” Gabriel mumbled curiously. As Gabriel got closer to Eva, her eyelids started to open. Eva was not in her state of consciousness, and she was confused.

“Who are you?” Eva softly moaned under her breath. Gabriel’s eyes were getting bigger after hearing her voice.

“I’m your Alpha!” He devoured her and kissed her harshly.