Текст книги "Next-Door Incubus"

Автор книги: Emilia Rose

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CHAPTER 43

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Dani

This couldn’t be real. This wasn’t the Eros that I knew. He wouldn’t cheat on me, and if he had to do it, he would’ve told me because he knew how much I hurt after Trevon. Eros loved me and cared about me and yet there he was walking down the hall with proof on his body that he really had sex with those two succubi.

My chin quivered, and I stormed into Javier’s room.

Fuck him. What was this all for now? To make Eros king and throw me to the side like I was nothing to him? Even if there was a sliver of a chance that he would have to do this to seize the throne, I would’ve liked a warning. Something. Anything.

The door shut behind me. “You’re not jealous, are you?” Javier asked.

I pushed back my tears. “No,” I said quietly, staring at the chains hanging from the ceiling next to the king-sized oak bed. “I’m not jealous.” There was a mirror on one side of the room, and I could just imagine Javier getting off watching himself torture women and men in here.

I felt betrayed. Hurt. Furious. Wrathful.

He loosened his tie and began to unbutton his shirt. “I guess you were only a pet to him. Just someone he could use to get off.” He let his shirt hang loosely off his shoulders.

The sensible part of me knew that Javier was trying to rile me up, and it was working.

“Take off your dress,” he said.

So many foreign emotions were rushing through me. Anger. Jealousy. Disgust. I’d never felt this demonic before. But one emotion flowed through my veins, so intensely, that it felt natural.

Lust.

“Take off your dress,” Javier said again firmly.

Would this make me feel better in the weeks to come? No. Would it make me feel better now? I’d have to see.

I reached behind me and unzipped my satin dress, letting it fall to the ground. His gaze traveled down my body, lingering on the lacey lingerie set I put on earlier. At the time, I thought that Eros would be the one to take it off of me when we got home from Hell. Now, it would be Javier.

He stalked toward me, eyes a mahogany red, and unbuckled his belt. When he drew his fingers around my waist, I closed my eyes. It felt so wrong.

Without speaking another word, he spun me around, pushed me onto the bed, and pressed his hardness against my backside. I felt disgusted. He grabbed a fistful of my hair and thrusted his fingers into my panties, rubbing me roughly. “One minute you’re sitting in my brother’s lap, the next you’re wet for me.”

Pressure built in my core, and I closed my eyes. There was no going back from this, no trying to repent for my sins. I was in Hell, and I was going to stay here, whether it was my choice or not.

Javier left sloppy, rough kisses down my neck, then my shoulders, then my back. He pushed his hips further into mine until he was pushing against my entrance, and I clenched.

A feeling of disgust washed through me, and I tried to ignore it.

“What do you want, Dani?” he asked.

Not him. I didn’t want him.

He grasped my jaw, his mouth against my ear. “What do you want?” he asked again, so wrathful.

I squeezed my eyes shut and shook my head, another feeling of disgust running through me. No matter how much I wanted to forget Eros and just survive down here, I couldn’t do this.

Javier’s palm collided with my cheek, making my cheek tingle. I clutched it, my head tingling.

“I said to tell me what you—”

I pushed him off and onto the bed beside me, threw one leg over his, and snatched his chin in my hand. “Don’t you dare slap me.”

“Start acting like a fucking pet and I won’t have to.” Javier grasped my wrist, trying to yank it away from him. But instead of letting go, I tightened my grip. “What are you doing?” He pulled on it more, but I refused to release him. “No wonder why Eros cheated on you. Not only are you a whore, but a crazy one.”

My heart was pumping with pure adrenaline, and I was so damn tired of everyone tonight. I’d been put down, cheated on, tossed to the side like I was nothing. I wasn’t about to listen to another word this no-good scheming piece of—

There was a loud crack. Javier’s eyes widened, and he grasped for breath. “Wha-what are you doing?”

I suddenly was overcome with a craving for pepper, a desire for mahogany eyes, and a power too strong to control. My hands shook, and Javier’s lips looked so damn delicious. I could just taste the energy inside of him.

My mind felt foggy, and everything about him seemed to become much sharper in my vision. The vein violently pulsing in his neck, the shape of his fangs in his mouth, his long and curved horns. There was only one thing I wanted to do.

I pressed my lips to his, feeding off his rage and desire. All I could feel was his wrath and his lust pumping into me, his fingers digging into my skin and setting it ablaze, an intense throbbing in my core. He felt better than Trevon and Eros ever did.

Javier squirmed under me, his claws digging into my wrists, but I didn’t let go. I liked this too much.

When his arms fell limply at his sides and the power between our lips ceased, I pulled away from him and took a deep breath.

Oh, my God.

I could feel fiery passion swimming inside of me. It felt so good that I wanted more.

Underneath me, Javier wasn’t moving. His ugly and dull grey eyes were half-opened. I sat up taller, trying to find a pulse on him. And when I couldn’t, I gulped. Did I… did I just kill him?

The door swung open, and Eros stormed into the room. “Javier! I’m going to fucking kil—” He stopped when he saw me, eyes wide. “Dani,” he breathed.

Well, at least Eros found his fucking shirt.

Lucifer leaned against the doorframe and clapped. “Well, there it is. The moment we’ve all been waiting for.”

“I’m kind of busy. Why don’t you leave me alone?” I said, turning back to Javier. I didn’t know exactly what I was busy with, but it sure as Hell wasn’t going to be Eros or Lucifer.

There was silence, then Eros growled. “What happened to the rules, Dani?”

Lucifer placed a hand on Eros’s shoulder. “Don’t get her angry. She doesn’t know how to control herself yet.”

I leapt off of the bed and stormed toward him. “Why don’t you tell me that? Tell me why you were leaving your Lust Room with scratches and bruises all over your body.” When I stepped toward him, he stepped back. “Huh? Do the rules not apply to you? Did you tell me that stupid excuse about wanting only one partner so you could fuck whoever you wanted behind my back?”

He held up his hands. “Dani, calm down. Breathe for me, please.”

“You do not tell me what to do.”

Delicious black eyes. Mouthwatering scent of cinnamon. I could feel desire clawing its way up my throat. And, this time, his lips looked so tasty.

I lunged for him, but Lucifer pulled him out of the way. “Shit, this is not going how we expected.”

My mind replayed the image of Javier underneath me, my hand wrapped lustfully around his chin as I pressed my lips to his, inhaling the power between us.

I wanted Eros, and I wanted him now.

He continued to back away from me with his hands in the air. “Dani, please. Listen to me. You need to take a deep breath. I need you to calm—” I lurched forward again, but he ducked under my arms, placed one arm around my neck and the other on my hip to steady me, and said, “Dani, please listen to me.”

I struggled against him, wanting to just turn around and take him. He pushed me a few feet and spun us around, toward the mirror next to the dresser. “Dani, you’re not yourself. Breathe.”

“What the hell do you—”

My brows furrowed together at my reflection. My eyes were pure black with a thin ring of white around the edges, my teeth were sharper than Eros’s, and there were goddamn horns on my head.

I stopped struggling and placed my trembling hands on the mirror. “Oh, my God,” I said softly. Tears welled up in my eyes. What had I become? Killing Javier, wanting to kill Eros. I was a monster.

Eros wrapped his arms around my waist, holding me close to him. “Deep breaths, Dani.”

After five minutes of breathing heavily, I watched my eyes fade back to their normal brown color. The horns disappeared and the fangs shortened into regular teeth.

“What is going on?” I asked Eros.

He looked at Lucifer, and Lucifer nodded to him. When his gaze met mine, he paused for a few moments. “You’re half demon, half angel, Dani.”

“What?” I asked in disbelief.

“Your mother was an angel and your father was a demon.” Eros grabbed my hand with the ring on it and looked down. The band was a garnet red again, still buried into my skin, and the rose-gold v pendant, which was fastened near the bottom base of the band, looked identical to Mom’s pendant. “This ring was your father’s marriage band, and the pendant was from your mother’s. Before he died, he asked me to give it to you.”

Lucifer stepped forward. “And thanks to me, the band and pendant have been merged again as one.”

I gazed between the two men, then focused on Eros. “You… you knew my father?” I asked. Mom never mentioned him and didn’t have any pictures of him, so I assumed that she didn’t know who he was or just didn’t want me to know him.

“My parents… ordered for their murders,” he said.

The woman with the red eyes was hired by Eros’s family to kill Mom, to take away my entire childhood, to murder the one person who had loved me to the fullest. And what about my dad? I never even met him and I never would. I clenched my fists. “I want to kill them.”

“They’re already taken care of,” Eros said. “I killed the two succubi in my room, had to make it look like I fucked them so my parents wouldn’t question me, then persuaded them to talk alone in the throne room so I could kill them.” Eros grabbed my hands. “If you don’t believe me, you can go check for yourself. But you should know that I would never do that to you. And, if I had to, I would never enjoy it.”

I sat on the bed on the verge of tears. From Trevon to visiting Hell with Eros to finding out my whole life was taken away from me by his parents, this was all just too much, too quickly. “Why did they kill my parents?”

“Because they didn’t think your father was fit to rule the Kingdom of Lust since he was committed to one woman who was an angel.” He shook his head with so much sorrow in his eyes. “And my mother has royal Envy blood but was a bastard child, so she never had a chance to command her kingdom. She was jealous of your father’s position, so much so that she made my father lust for power and agree to kill his commander for her.”

My eyes widened. My dad was the Commander of Lust? So… that meant that—

“So, what’s the first order of business, Commander?” Lucifer stared at me with a smirk on his lips.

“You brought me here to rule?” I asked in disbelief.

Eros brushed a finger across my bottom lip and smiled. “You’re heir to the throne, Keeper of the Ring, Queen of the Kingdom, and now the Commander of Lust. There’s no one more fit to rule than you.”

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CHAPTER 44

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Dani

“Harder.”

Eros shoved me against the wall, one arm wrapped under my leg, his other hand wrapped around my throat. I dug my fingers into the stone above me, looking for something—anything—to hold myself up. He pulled me closer with every thrust.

My cheeks warmed, and I breathed slowly out of my nose, my head in a fog. “More,” I said. I needed more.

I wrapped my legs around Eros’s waist. He thrusted faster and drew my nipple into his mouth, his teeth grazing against it. I clenched around him, ready to release myself, but he pulled out. “I didn’t say that you could cum yet, did I?”

“Don’t stop,” I whimpered.

He sat me on our mahogany bed and grasped my chin. “Did I?” he asked. I smirked at him, eyes wide with excitement. I could devour him for days upon days and never get tired of him. He teased my clit with his fingers. “Answer me, Dani, or I’ll rub your sensitive little clit all day and not let you cum once.”

I rested one of my arms on his shoulder, gazing into his black eyes. The pressure was building in my core, and I could just feel the head of his dick poking at my entrance. I was so damn close.

My lips parted, and he jerked his hand away. I pulled it back. “No, don’t stop, please. I’ll be good.”

“What do you want?” he asked, fingers hovering over my clit. The heat from his fingers radiated off of them, and I ached for more.

“I want you.”

He thrusted back into me quite roughly, and I came almost instantly—not being able to hold off anymore. I took a deep breath and sunk into the velvet comforter on our bed. “How long have we been here?”

“Three, maybe four hours.” He rolled off of me, breathing heavy. “You’re building your stamina nicely.”

One week had passed since the night I found out about my true origins. Eros’s parents and Javier were gone, and we had been living in the palace. To say, I’d adjusted to the way of life down here would be a lie. It was still freaky to walk into the Lust Room hall and see half-naked people, but Eros said that it’d be second nature someday.

I had been visiting Dr. U every day—even on the weekends. Though I didn’t tell her about becoming the Queen of Lust, she knew that something was off that first morning I peeked my head into her office and brought her more Fervor Crisps as a thank you for loving me for years when nobody else had. Unlike usual, she didn’t pry for information, just told me that she would be there for me through anything. And, for the first time in a long time, I felt like her and Mom were truly proud of me for everything that I had become.

I turned onto my side and gazed at Eros. “Was this your plan all along?” I asked. I’d been thinking about how I ended up in Hell and why I was really here for a few days now. The official Commander ceremony would happen next month, and I had realized that I didn’t know much about my journey to Hell. “Was your plan always to get me to rule the kingdom?”

Eros faced me and placed his hand on my bare hip. “Yes.”

“So…” I motioned between us. “Were we part of the plan?”

“No,” he said, cheeks turning a light pink. “At first, my goal was to see if you were ready and to flirt with you a bit. But you were too irresistible. I found myself thinking about you more than I planned to. And one day…” He shook his head and smiled. “One day I just knew that I had feelings that were more than lust for you.”

I grinned, feeling like a little girl again. “And when was that?”

“The Halloween party.”

“Oh, God.” I playfully slapped his chest. “That was the worst night you could’ve fallen for me. I was sobbing and puking and—”

“And wearing those horns. Sexy, powerful, and strong. Such a bad night to fall in love with you, right?”

I curled into his arm, feeling comfortable and happy for once. “Was Lucifer part of this plan?”

“After my parents banished me, Lucifer had a distaste toward them, so he’s actually the one who suggested that I find you soon.”

“And the threesome?” I inhaled his relaxing cinnamon aroma.

He chuckled. “That was my idea. I figured Lucifer would like you and I wanted you to get comfortable with sex.”

“You couldn’t prepare me for Lust by yourself?”

Eros grasped my face gently, some strands of his dark hair falling onto his forehead. I pushed them away and smiled. “I could, but you’re really strong. You took Javier’s life with a single kiss. Nobody in this kingdom can do that. And as you get stronger, you’re going to need to feed off of more sexual energy than I can provide you with,” he said.

I shook my head. “No, I don’t need anyone else but you.” I hoped that it wasn’t true. “My dad did it with Mom—had one mate, I mean. I can too.”

“You are so much stronger than your father, Dani. You don’t understand the power you wield. You will need more than just me, and, when that time comes, I understand that I will need to be okay with that.”

But I didn’t want anyone else. I wanted him, only him.

“What about my angel abilities? Can’t I sort of… stop that feeling with them?”

“I’m not sure. We’ll have to wait and see once they manifest, but I don’t know if they will down here in Hell.” He smiled at me, thumb brushing across my cheek. “But we can worry about that when the time comes. Why don’t you go get ready for the party tonight?”

I rolled out of bed, tied a black silk robe around myself, and gazed out of the window. We were on the highest floor of the castle, amongst the feathery white clouds. On a clear day, I could see everything from up here—the white walkways, the trees with soft pink leaves, the Garden of Passion, even the nearest town that was always bustling with demons from all the kingdoms.

Eros walked up behind me and rested his chin on my shoulder. “I actually have a few things to tell you before you go. Trevon was released from The Chains. He seems to be doing okay, but I’m keeping a watch on him. Zane and Maria will be coming over tonight. And… Kasey is still mad at me for killing our parents.”

I gnawed on the inside of my cheek. She had been ignoring all of my texts this past week. Mycah didn’t say much to me either. When I saw her at Ollie’s yesterday morning, I could tell that she wanted to talk to me, but she didn’t say a word. I hoped we could resolve this because—although the kingdom seemed much friendlier without their parents—many people like Sathanus, were angry that we killed the King, Queen, and one of the Lords of Lust. And, besides that, I wanted a friend in Hell.

“Also…” Eros smiled against my ear. “Before you get ready, there’s an envelope in the throne room for you. Please open it.”

“Who is it from?”

“Your father.”

“From Dad?” I asked, eyes growing wide. I pulled Eros into a hug, pressed my lips to his, and smiled. “Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.” I hurried out of the room, listening to Eros chuckling behind me, and ran down the nearest stone staircase.

The stairs were lit with flaming pink torches and seemed to go on forever. But when I finally made it to the bottom level, I pushed through the doors and navigated the hallway—with the help of some guards—to the throne room.

From the doorway, a large red carpet led directly to a raised red throne. Archways with white candles hanging off of their posts surrounded the room. I stepped in and walked toward the throne, my ring drawing me to it.

A white, tattered envelope laid on the seat. I carefully picked it up, sat down, and opened it. In strong cursive writing, the letter read:

Dear Daughter,

I know I will never get to see you, and that is something that hurts me the most. I wished to watch you command our kingdom with all the supremacy and might I know you will have. But there are people who want our blood and our souls. So, your mother departed to the Heavens to keep you safe. I hope she succeeded.

If you find this message once I’m gone, know that I loved you and your mother—more than I thought a demon could love. I hope you will acquire her gentle heart and forgive those who hurt you. You’re the essence of light and dark, good and bad, saint and sinner. Because of that, you will be the strongest of them all.

You must be careful, my Precious Angel. I have seen the strongest men and women sucked into the darkness, never to return. Demons are not afraid to lie, betray, or slay to gain power in Hell. Some will act as friends, others will be your enemies from the start. Always be attentive of who you trust and who you love, for those you love you can’t always trust and those you trust you can’t always love.

I must warn you of one thing. The beginning of the end is approaching. You will be thrown into chaos when it does. Angels will fall; demons will rise. Hell, as you know it, will cease to be. You will know it is approaching when the Ghoul of Darkness enters the Inferno.

There is a book about the end in my library. Use our family ring to open it. It’s for your eyes only. Stay safe.

Love,

Dad, or as your Mother may have called me, Asmodeus the Sorcerer of Temptation

I placed the letter down in my lap and smiled. I was Dani Asmodeus, Commander of Lust.

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