BRAVING THE DARKNESS: One Night With The Demon King
BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon Book 2
Chapter 5 – Curious Little Witch
PATREA.
“I don’t think I’ve seen you in your demon form. What do you look like?”
“For someone who wants to forget the underworld, it’s weird you want to know more about my demon side.” He stated this without opening his eyes, his face still void of any emotions.
Lucien was handsome, and so was Guillermo, but I think Lucius, despite the constant presence of a scowl on his face, was far better looking than them. “This human face you have, did you choose that, or do you automatically have that like shifters? They have human form and wolf form, but they can’t choose how they look.”
“Aren’t you a curious little witch?” His eyes snapped open, and he tilted his head in my direction, making our eyes.
And his eyes just hypnotized me.
It might be some charm that he has that makes me relax around him. I dropped my gaze from him, and it landed on his chest, which was very prominent on the tight shirt he had on him. I could see his erect nipple.
Spirits! I felt like a cougar at the moment. But then he was definitely older than me, so…
“What are you thinking?” He asked.
“I haven’t had s*e*x with anyone in three decades. I mean, with me participating in it.” For some reason, it was easier to talk about this with him. Maybe because he was a demon, and would not judge me by the words coming out of my mouth.
“I wanted to tell you that you can just lay down there and I’ll do all the work, but then…”
“I’d been doing that for a long time. Do you think I would ever feel satisfied with s*e*x again?”
“Did he ever make you come?”
“Yes.” I shifted my position and lay on my back, my gaze focusing on the ceiling above me, while I clutched my blanket just below my chest. “But I never enjoyed it. I felt dirty because I o*rgasmed even though I didn’t want to. It seldom happens, but I still feel bad that it did happen.”
“Your body was reacting to being touched. It’s not your fault. Do you want to talk more about it?”
“About it?” I asked as I chanted in my head, making all the lights flicker until they turned off except for the lamp beside the couch, but it was dimmed, making the whole room cozy and warm.
“I want to know what he exactly did to you and the way he was touching you. So I know what not to do. ii
“Are you not losing hope that maybe, you will not get anything from me?”
“Hope never resides with demons. I always get what I want, Patrea. I know it will take time, but I will get it.”
“It will take time, or decades, or centuries…”
He laughed, and it made my heart skip a beat. I thought he would be mad at my refusal.
“What’s another century? I can have my fill with those females around me while waiting for you.” “Why do you wait? It has been six months, and as you said, there are other females.”
“Have you craved someone? I haven’t. Except for you.”
I liked it when he said things without a filter. He would just say what he feels or wants to say.
I closed my eyes and steadied my breathing. Maybe if he got his fill of me, he would move on and get away from me.
“You can sleep if you want to…” His words came out soft, and I was sure he had done something to make me sleepy.
“Are you sure you’re not going to hug me while I sleep?” I asked before a soft yawn escaped my throat.
“I don’t do hugs, so you have nothing to worry about. I can stay here glued to my position for the rest of the night while my mind works in the demon world.”
“You’re not going to leave, right? Because if I ended up having nightmares and Althea didn’t come, no one would stop it.”
“I won’t leave until the morning…”
I turned to my sides, facing him without opening my eyes. For some reason, his side of the bed felt warmer. I scooted nearer to him and coiled my body until I was in the fetal position, my head resting just beside his hips as he was still sitting.
“Thankyou, Lucius. I’ll see you in the morning, or when the nightmare comes…” I mumbled as my body felt like it was being lulled to sleep.
I didn’t hear him reply to my words, but soon I felt a hand land on the top of my head before it began smoothing my hair gently. I wanted to tease and ask him what he was doing, but I was so sleepy, and it felt good that I didn’t want him to stop.
I was certain no one had ever touched and caressed my hair in this manner, so I just let him, until sleep took over.
LUCIUS.
The clock ticked six o’clock in the morning and using my enhanced hearing, I could hear voices around the packhouse. People were already moving around.
I’d been watching her sleep for the last six hours.
She didn’t have any nightmares?
Nothing strange had happened except for her tossing and turning around, but her face didn’t show any signs of her having a bad dream. She was smiling from time to time, but most of the time, she was just purring in her sleep, like those cats I used to kick before. O
I should start treating those cats better.
For the whole night, she would move from her position and turn to the other side, only to turn again and inch closer to me. And I had no f*uc*king idea how to react to it.
The crown of her head was touching my hips, so I had to lie down instead, as I didn’t want her to wake up and see my d*ic*k tenting under the blanket. In the end, she ended up under my armpit. But I was rather enjoying it. But I did my best not to touch her. The last thing I wanted was for her to wake up screaming.
I had never been in bed with any females except to f*uc*k them. In fact, I had never stayed in bed for more than an hour straight, so this was an underworld record for me. I had no idea I had the patience to stay still like this.
I let out a smug smirk as I turned my body to the side so that I was facing her, our faces parallel with each other. My hand went to her cheek, carefully tucking the strays of hair away from her face.
I let my finger linger on her soft skin, trailing it down her cheek when her eyes flipped open, and my mouth parted as if I wanted to explain, but words got caught in my throat. So I greeted her instead, “Good morning.”
She blinked. And then she closed her eyes, and I took it as an opportunity to withdraw my hand from her face.
“I can’t remember having a nightmare.” She exclaimed in a rather excited voice as she abruptly sat up from lying down. “Did you see any signs of nightmares?”
I shook my head and placed my hands under my head, bewildered at the happiness that brewed on her face until her eyes began to well up with tears and her shoulders began to shake. A sob escaped her lips, and she covered her face with shaking hands.
“Are you crying?” I asked, my forehead creasing. “I never had a good sleep for the last three decades, Lucius. I almost forgot how this feels, and it feels so good.” She answered between her hiccups, her hands still covering her face. “Maybe the charm you put in so I would fall asleep helped clear my mind from the nightmares.”
“Charm? What?” I asked.
Did she think I made her fall asleep last night when I was wondering how the hell she fell asleep so fast when we were just talking?
“I didn’t do anything at all.” I chuckled, and it made her remove her hands from her face.
“You didn’t make me sleep last night?” She asked again as she wiped her tears.
My lips pursed into a thin line as I shook my head. ” You slept on your own. Why would I put you to sleep when I was enjoying talking with you?”
A smile crept on my lips before I licked them. “I think having me around makes you sleep better. Nightmare free.”
“It’s just one night. How can you be so sure?” Her eyebrows were raised but she was smiling now.
“That’s why we need to try again. So three weeks?” I waited for her response but my eyes went down to her body. The top of her bre@sts was visible on the neckline of her lingerie and I wanted to dig my head in between them.
“Eyes up, Lucius.” She said but her voice didn’t sound annoyed so I let my gaze stay where it was. “I’d been a good demon for the whole night, which is not ordinary for me. So I deserve a prize, don’t you think? Let me gloat on it until the day I can touch them.”
She giggled before she shoved her blanket away and moved to get up. And for Hades’ sake, the lingerie was clinging to her @ssand it gave me a view of her rounded cheeks with just her lace underwear covering them.
“f*uc*k, Patrea. Don’t do that again.” I groaned.
“What?” She snapped her head back to look at me. “Flashing me your a*s*s. I’m a f*uc*king demon, not a saint.”
“Then we will have a problem if you stay with me for three weeks as I go around n*ake*d the house from time to time.” She was laughing heartily as she made her way to the bathroom.
I knew she was probably joking but the thought of her n*ake*d still aroused me. I didn’t behave the whole night just for me to snap and attack her this morning, so for the first time in my life, I cowered.
I left her room without saying anything.