All Chapters of Lust and Loyalty (MM): Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

CROSS I walked back into the room with two cups of hot chocolate. Cyrus was still lying face down at one corner of the bed, sulking. I shook my head slightly as I placed the cups down and climbed over to where he laid, waiting for him to move but remained stubbornly. A beautiful tattoo of a butterfly sat in the middle of his lower back. How come I'd never noticed it? His shoulders shuddered in a heavy breath. "Cyrus, come on. I made hot chocolate." He grumbled something, bringing a smile to my lips but I wiped it off my face before he could pull another tantrum. I was completely sober now. Who wouldn't be after that crazy remark about his dick dying? "Will you please just turn around and let's talk about it?" And what the heck all that was just a minute ago? That beast that looked right back at me-- I knew it wasn't him, so what was it? He said nothing for a long time and I wondered if he dozed off on me but he suddenly grumbled, "No. I don't want to talk about anything. Go

CYRUSThe glass shattered and we bolted in one direction. Tension ceased the room as we raced towards him. My heart drummed in panic. Seth was closer and had almost disappeared in the blinking of an eye but Lucian being a vampire gave him the upper hand.He zoomed past me with the speed of light and my heart sank. Quickly, my wings burst forth. I tried to gain an edge with the wind, bursting into the air at full speed but the sight of my siblings already ahead of me caused a sinking despair in my heart.Cross's scent hit me harder, his body reacting to my powers.The air was thick with our dark auras, suffocating– too much for any human to bear.They were faster, stronger, more experienced-- I knew I'd lost when I heard Cross scream.Dread slammed into me like a thick brick was jammed into my stomach."Let him go!" I screamed desperately at Seth who had his hands on him. Back to his front and an arm wound around his neck, Seth kept his eyes carefully on the others, watching out for wh

CYRUS"Excuse me?" Lilith frowned, recovering from the shock. It was quite hard to believe he just growled at them. "Listen here, you little--""If you have nothing but negatives to say then zip it!"Oh shit! He was pissed off, wasn't he? I looked down to where he held our hands like he was in control here, when in fact, he was the odd one out. We could all tell he was nervous and afraid but that didn’t stop him from schooling them. If he could complain in hell, then damn, I was in for the rest of my life.No, that didn't come out well. Rest of whose life? This was the end for him."I've had enough. I'm scared to my boots but you don't see me screaming and yelling. Whether we're doomed or not, he's only trying to stay positive and there's nothing wrong with that. God!" he huffed, then muttered, "How can I have more balls than the descendants of lust?""Hey!" Lilith snapped. "You know nothing about our family-""No, thanks. I don't need the extra information. Clearly, this," he gestur

CYRUSMy hands trembled as I glanced at the heads of my siblings. The tentacles reached for them, dragging them back into the Earth and pulling along their lifeless bodies. Hell had no respect for its own people, this much shouldn't be a surprise. This wasn't grandfather's orders. Judging from the surge of power I just got, this was Valkar doing his own wish."H-He- killed them. Oh my God! Oh my God!" Cross gasped, struggling to breathe behind me. "Oh God! Oh God!" Anyone who stood against grandfather had themselves to blame. It didn't matter if they were his own grandchildren. We were not special to anyone. But I wasn't going to let them take my one special person away from me. Cross could barely even breathe behind me and I was in no position to say anything comforting. Heck, I needed it too! "Now that we've gotten rid of those small fries," Valkar smirked, still levitating as though the Earth was unworthy of him. "Let's get right into it."Small fries? I gulped. Shit. He wasn't

CYRUS I've always been afraid of the dark. Not because of what lurked out there, but what I housed inside me.Carrying a whole sin and one as strong as lust wasn't exactly easy. I feared the day he would burst out and shut me out, leaving me to drown in the darkness-- the void.What would happen to me? I wondered where I'd float.To nothingness, I hoped. Like my whole existence erased, wiped out like I wasn't even there.That was better than the feeling of being stuck somewhere, the feeling of falling into the void and never letting up.Something warm wrapped around me and I felt a slight tug in my chest. The kind I always felt when Cross looked at me a certain way, or smiled these days.Shit! Something's wrong with me, for sure.But right now, I felt his presence. It was subtle but it was there. It felt warm on my face like the ray of sun on a Saturday morning back at Mom's place. I could hear her humming through the thin walls-- other times, her cries of being abandoned by a mate a