LUCIUS. It had been three cycles [days], and my father had never left Kalmerus. All the time he was putting on that fucking hologram to check on Stone, and it was now annoying me. He also knew Lucija was mastering skills, and he would watch her from time to time. If I thought he would be bothered by Lucija acquiring advanced skills, I was wrong. He looked like he was enjoying it. His action confused the hell out of me. But then I realized he probably wanted Lucija on his side. So he was pampering her, giving in to all her whims except for anything related to Stone. I wondered how long it would be before he would realize that Lucija never wanted to stay. Earlier, I went to see her while on training, and I found our father watching her with awe in his eyes. Lucija was able to seamlessly change her shape into that of other demons. We called this shapeshifting, and only royal and high-ranking demons had this ability. It took me a while to get this, but it only took a day for her, which

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 — either he didn’t trust me or he had no concrete plan at all. But maybe he just didn’t 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 couldn’t 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 don’t need to spend hours explaining them to him." "But how will you bring him there?" "That’

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. It’s 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 didn’t reach his eyes. "Anyway, enough about my brother. My Beta will show you the area you can use. It’s in the middle of the forest, away from the residential area, and usually not visited by my people. So it’

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 we’re not done for today." Gargon’s forehead creased as he looked at me. "I didn’t ask for your opinion." "If you want to learn more, you can’t just cancel anytime…" "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 didn’t escape my ears the way Gargon hissed, but he didn’t say more and instead motioned for the demons to follow him as he made his way out. ‘You can come up now. You better transport your body here, or you will meet Gargon by the stairs. They just headed out.’ 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

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 — 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 didn’t 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