Chapter 10 - Deja Vu Lucifer "You idiots," I growled as I stormed into my office. Five of my brothers were seated in front of my desk. The sixth one, Winston, was nowhere to be seen. Typical of the hot-headed asshat. Though, in hindsight, it was better that he wasn't here. Another Lilith related had him rolling with anger, and the chaos he made in his wake wasn't worth the headache right now, not after what had happened last night.I reached my chair, rolling toward my desk and resting my elbows on the surface. The cherry oak table top was handcrafted for me as a form of bribery by one of the souls who was hoping to reduce their sentence. I gladly took the desk and then added an extra three centuries to his five-hundred-century conviction for trying to bribe me into letting him go early.It always brought me great joy to see the hope fade from my victim's eyes. Because of that loss of hope, I had given my brothers strict orders to leave Lilith alone until I returned from my trip. Ev

Chapter 12 - PreyLilith My stomach turned, my blood running cold, as sweat beaded down the back of my neck. I sprung from my bed, my hand covering my mouth as I ripped open my door, barely dodging my dad as I made a beeline for the bathroom. The door slammed behind me, and I slipped up the toilet seat, throwing up whatever was left in my stomach from the night before. The world felt like it was spinning on its axis as I continued to dry heave. I pushed off the toilet, my back pressing against the cold wall as I slid to the floor. I tuned out my father as he banged on the door, demanding I answer him. His voice was laced with concern, but I was too disoriented to answer.How was this happening?How was I here again?I had to leave, get out of Teivel as fast as possible. Though a small part of me wanted to laugh at the thought that this was another trick planned by Eve like she was still somehow fucking with me from the afterlife. My mind was filled with the images of Perseus with

Chapter 14 - Power Samuel I had always been the most cautious out of the seven of us. I stood in the back of rooms during parties, lurking in the shadows. Watching and learning, I was a social outcast, always reading and studying. Some deemed me lazy and unreliable, but I begged to differ. Those people were fools because it was when no one thought anyone was watching that they revealed their true selves. It was how I gained secrets and the upper hand in the underworld. Lucifer and Winston may be one of the top princes in Hell for their cutthroat ways, but I was at the top for my ability to claim secrets and blackmail, unlike any other. I was as cunning as I was invisible. It had worked for me well all these centuries. It was what also saved me from the wrath that was Lilith and made me one of her closest allies in Hell, that was until she decided to kill my brothers and take the crown for herself.Her betrayal was why I had supplied Lucifer with the information he needed to kill h

Chapter 16 - GamesLilith Winston let out a roar of anger; the chair he occupied now flipped over as he charged at me. The promise of my death filled his eyes. The hazel colour of his irises was now replaced with a black so deep it looked almost as if they could pull me in like a black hole. His hand wrapped around my throat before anyone else had enough time to react. I grunted as my head slammed against the stone wall of the fireplace. Another thing I missed when entering this room from hell. My lungs burned as I tried to gasp for air, but Winston held on tight. I knew he could snap my neck with the slightest flex of his fingers, but he wasn't going to. No, that would be too easy of a death, for the woman poisoned him and then ripped out his heart and fed it to the beasts of the underworld. He wanted to watch me struggle to breathe. He wanted to watch the panic fill my eyes as the realization that I was going to die set in. He wanted to watch the light fade from my eyes as I slow

Chapter 18 - AddictionEmmett Life for anyone, especially for a prince of hell, has a way of really fucking you when it starts to get good. Coming in to ruin everything just when you finally get your shit together and have proven to everyone who the top dog in charge is.Okay, maybe I wasn't exactly the top dog per se, but I was close to it until karma walked in like a fucking hurricane and took the chance away from me, and that hurricane just happened to be named Lilith.All those centuries ago, I thought she was a blessing. Little did I know she was a curse in disguise, a curse I would later find myself addicted to. She and I connected, hitting it off instantly, or so I thought. We even devised a plan to help me claim the top spot with her by my side. Unfortunately, the Envy I had for my brother and his power, blinded me, and I didn't see Lilith for the snake that she was until she stood over me with a cunning smile on her lips and a bloodied knife in her hand after she had just cu