Todos los capítulos de THE DEVIL'S DUE: Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 30

MIAMy eyes remained embarrassingly shut. I couldn't bring myself to open it and stare into what must be smugness in his face. This wasn't me. I didn't surrender to sudden kisses or kisses at all. I didn't cling on to a man who spoke down on me every opportunity he got.Whatever was going on with my mind scared me beyond reasoning.It made me vulnerable, and that wasn't a good way to self preserve.“Seriously? You're not going to open your eyes?” I heard him ask me again.Why would I open my eyes? To see him gloat that all it took was a kiss for him to weaken my knees?It wasn't even as if the kiss was any good. Okay, that was a lie, but still, it didn't warrant the embarrassment I felt.“Alright, suit yourself.”I didn't know what that meant, until I heard footsteps.He was leaving me. He was fucking leaving me alone!My only choices were to push aside my shame and open my eyes, or just wait for him to leave.I chose the latter. I had endured enough embarrassment for the night.Eve

MIA Mr peacock was in my room an hour after dinner to bring me to the Angels sanctuary. “You look distressed. What is the problem?” “I want a lollipop,” I said to him as we walked. He laughed as if I was trying to be funny. But he stopped when I didn't laugh with him. “Oh you're being serious?” “Of course I am. Lollipops and mood lifters. The back and forth motion of it in the mouth keeps one's thoughts sharp.” He chuckled, shaking his head in the process. “Are you even a real person?” “Why? You think I'm weird? Is being weird a bad thing? Why's everything so scrutinized in this world? One can't be different? One can't be an independent thinker? We all have to think alike, yeah? You see, that's the problem of this world!” Mr peacock stared at me with horror in his eyes. I held his gaze for a couple more seconds, before I burst into laughter. “Gotcha!” He exhaled loudly. “Jesus Christ girl, you scared me. For a second there, I thought I would have to pour you some holy wate

LUCA“What are you watching?” Niko entered my office room and I quickly switched screens from the sanctuary to something work related.“Nothing,” I cleared my throat and sat up.I didn't want anyone knowing I was watching Mia work a pole, and it was the most mesmerising thing I had ever seen.Niko took a seat, eyeing me as he did. “What?”“You've been acting strange," he replied.“Strange?” I lifted a brow. “Do tell, how?” “You made the girl queen of the night just like that.”“I didn't know I needed to conduct you first, but in my defense, I didn't. Geraldo and Lena did.”“What?”“Yeah, they saw her after I thought she was too ugly to be of any use. It turned out she had been disguising all along to fit in as the perfect thief. How do you think I got the gold wristwatch I gave you to get rid of?” His eyes widened, but it was so quick I almost missed it.“Niko, what have you done?”“Well in my defense, I–”“What did you fucking do?”He sighed, and his shoulder fell. “I gave it to

“She doesn't seem very interested in acknowledging your gaze,” Darien Luxe said to Luca.He turned to the father of the woman he was going to be marrying, and smiled.“She's not supposed to. It's the rule.”“The rule? I'm just glad you don't bring my daughter around these kinds of things.”“Yet you're here,” Luca said in his mind, but outwardly, he smiled.“Of course I won't bring her here. She's too precious to be here.”“Or maybe you're checking out other women and don't want her to catch you in the act?”“Well I don't cheat, so there's that.” He shrugged.“Nonsense!” Darien waved dismissively. “I don't know a man who doesn't indulge in a little something new. I loved my wife, God rest her soul, more than anything in this world, but this one's mother never missed a second laying on my desk at the company.”Luca looked to see Rhys face flatten. He didn't feel sorry for him, but he did find it hilariously ironic that he was now messing with his daughter.“Thats why I stick to one woma

MIAI walked through the halls of the castle endlessly.Where I was supposed to go and where I came from seemed to have blended into one, incomprehensible path that made me believe I was going around in circles.The state of my mental health was in shambles.My brain cried for help. The spike rate wasn't normal.One minute, I was from the euphoria of dopamine being released every time I entered into the golden glass, and the next, my cortisol level was being activated. This was no way to live, and it only just grew worse.My feet began to hurt from the amount of movement I was doing.Since I had no idea how to find my room, I just dropped to the ground, right in the center of nowhere.I took off my heels, and rested my back on a door.When I closed my eyes, it was with a prayer that my mind took me from this unstable place, to a place or a time I knew peace.Fortunately for me, I got my heart's desire.When I was ten, I was taken by my aunt who loathed my father to see a play.The pl