Sorry for the super late update. I am on rest day for my other book today, so I can continue writing and give you more tonight. The coming chapters are exciting and harder to write, so please be patient with me. I can assure you that it will be worth it. Thank you for your patience and for waiting, and for all the GEMS! Lucius' marked her! Will our witchy witch survive the mark or not? ❤
LUCIUS. "No! No! I’m sorry! Patrea! I said I’m sorry." I watched as black veins crawled on the skin of her neck, starting from where the bite was, and watched in terror as she choked in front of me. I didn’t know what to do. She couldn’t breathe. The pain in my chest was killing me, and I just wanted to succumb to it, but I couldn’t just let Patrea go. Her eyes fluttered before they shut, and the veins disappeared from her skin, and I knew I was losing her. My hand reached for her neck as I summoned my power to remove my mark, but I couldn’t. Marks and wounds from the underworld were permanent. Why the fuck did I forget a demon mark was deadly? My whole body shook as the agony of my action washed over me. I was losing the only female I ever cared about, and it was entirely my fault. I leaned my head closer to her naked chest. Her heart was still beating. I got up from the bed before I scooped up her body and transported us back to the cave where we came from. All the while
LUCIUS. "The demons of the Kingdom of Athwart, led by King Arturos, stand by the border between the two kingdoms. They wanted to avenge Princess Nyneve’s death." Dorian stated, his eyes fixed on mine. I was right. It was only a matter of time before he would come for her the moment he felt a descendant’s soul disconnect from him. But I was sure Nyneve meant nothing to him, and he perhaps just wanted a reason to take my kingdom. I didn’t say anything and just kept staring at my second-in-command. I wanted to tell him to just let King Arturos destroy Kalmerus. Maybe it was the right time to just succumb and let my own life perish. I had nothing to keep fighting for, nothing to live for. ‘You’re fucking stupid if you just let him destroy your kingdom!' Lucija’s words rang in my head. She could read me. But I kept my silence. I felt numb. Lucija stepped forward, and Dorian’s attention went to her. "Prepare your demon guards, but make sure that the tower is fully secured. We wil
PATREA."Adora?" I asked as the tears finally trickled down my face at the exact moment the figure came into the light, revealing the girl I was so longing to see.She still looked the same as the last time I saw her, and despite the tears that were threatening to fall from her eyes, she looked happier."Am I dead? Why am I seeing you? Where are we?" I asked. "We are in between realms, Mama?""What do you mean? Are you stuck in between realms?"She shook her head as she sat at the end of my bed. "I am with the spirits. I only came here for you — to ask you if you want to come with me to the spirit world.""Am I dead?""Lucius bit you."I shook my head. "He didn’t mean to."A spark in the darkness flashed before my eyes, and my arms instinctively covered my eyes. After a while, I slowly lowered my arms to see another female standing beside Adora.Her eyes were pure black, as was her long hair. And from the runes that were covering her body, I already knew who she was. I was now fully
ALTHEA. "Mommy didn’t take you? She let you stay?" I asked her, overwhelmed that she was back with me and happy that she had met Mom again. Patrea nodded her head before she hugged me again. "Lucius marked me. I chose to accept the mark, Althea. I hope you will never judge me…" "No. Never, mama." I cut her off before I withdrew from her hugs. "If Lucius makes you happy, then he can have you. He kept crying the whole time you were unconscious. He thought he killed you. He keeps saying he loves you." Tears trickled down Patrea’s face, but this time a smile graced her lips. "Do you think it’s possible for him to love me?" "If I didn’t see him, I would never believe it. But I saw it with my own eyes. Do you love him, Mama?" She nodded her head as a red tint crept across her cheeks. "I might be too old for this." "No one is too old for love, and even demons deserve a chance to be loved back," I told her as I wiped the tears off her face. "Where is Lucius?" "Kalmerus is at war," Bl
LUCIUS. I didn’t know it was possible to feel this happy despite the fact that my kingdom was under attack. I was so used to taking pride and being boastful of my accomplishments, but this happiness Patrea was giving me was beyond me. For the first time, I got something because it wanted me, not out of force or rebellion. Patrea was alive, and she survived my mark because of one thing: she loved me. And I knew at this point that I could do everything, anything, to make sure she wouldn’t regret braving the darkness that came along with loving me. "Welcome to Kalmerus, my queen," I told her as I stared directly into her amber eyes before they blazed red. And it just made me excited. My hand gripped her jaw tightly as I crushed my lips against her, kissing her brutally hard, and my queen just accepted my kiss wholeheartedly before she snaked her arms around me. But I knew I should stop kissing her, or this might lead to other things, and we had a kingdom to protect. I pulled away
BLADE. Althea kept pacing back and forth. At first, I didn’t mind, but I was beginning to get irritated with the way she kept moving in front of me, and my eyes couldn’t stop following her. If I had my way, I would pull her onto my lap and tie her up around me. "Can you stop doing that?" I spoke in a low voice, as I did my best not to show how her moving around bothered me already. "Waiting for the unknown is killing me. I don’t know how you can just stay still there for a long time like you’re not even breathing." She snapped at me. "Did you forget I’m a mercenary? I can stay here for days and you won’t even know I’m here." "Are you not worried about what’s happening out there?" She asked, ignoring my words. "No. I know they can handle them." But the truth was, I was not worried, not yet, because she was safe here with me. The rest of them were demons. I was sure if they died, they could find ways to revive themselves, but Althea could not, so it was better if we stayed here.
PATREA. I gasped for air as my throat continued to burn, but it didn’t feel painful at all. In fact, the warmth in my throat was soothing. I let my hand trail down my neck as I softly moaned, only to realize that my whole body was burning. My body jolted up, and I sat down. I was floating while the battle continued below me. It took a while before everything registered as to where I was and what was happening. Earlier, I was riding Angel, Lucy’s winged wolf. While Lucy was communicating with me about different ways I could use my new power, something suddenly hit my back. I knew Lucy had placed a protective spell around us, but it looked like the one who fired it used a bigger power than Lucy had, so whatever she used was not enough. Everything happened so fast. Angel’s wings were also hit by fire, and we came crashing down. I tried to put a spell on to protect us from falling, but everything suddenly went dark, and I had no idea what happened next. But here I am now. I tilted
PATREA. ‘Lucius?’ I called for him again and I was already beginning to panic. ‘Here.’ He appeared beside me as a body fell from the top and hit the ground with a loud thud. Arturos’ body was totally deformed, and his head was missing. But his head came crashing down after a few seconds, smashing to the ground as his brain and blood splattered on the demons around that area. My head snapped back to look at Lucius, who was now back in his regular demon form, probably so he wouldn’t tower over me. In his hands was Arturo’s heart. The demons everywhere stopped fighting, and some of them just suddenly disappeared, their bodies crumbling to ashes as they just vanished in the air. "What’s happening?" I asked Lucius. "Those demons were revived by Arturos, on his death, they would come with him." "And those who are still alive?" "They will become our demons." "Does it mean you will rule Athwarth as well?" "We will rule Athwart." He said cockily. "But his heir?" "I have Arturos’ he