Contractually Yours Alpha (Riley)

Chapter One Hundred and Fitects

Chapter One Hundred and Fifteen

A smirk curved on his lips; his eyes, once full of emotion, were empty, cold, and... distant.

Suddenly he looked like a stranger.

In a blink, he was no longer in front of me. I felt his presence right behind me; my heart pounded as I slowly turned around, and there he stood only a few inches away from me.

"You wanted to know how I got out of The Pit? Well now you do."

"What are you?" I asked, backing away once again.

"Fortune tellers might be liars, but she didn't lie. I do have larkness living and breeding inside of me. Your empresses, they were all fools; they couldn't see that the very thing they fought against was living with them, under their very noses."

"You are scaring me, Trian."

"No, not Trian. Daemon."

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That name was also familiar; it took only a few seconds for my brain to place it. Julia had told me about the demon that had been born into the world by the Luna Queen. The demon that was supposed to be dead, he went by the very same name Daemon.

"No!" I gasped.

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"Now you're scared. Since you were so curious, perhaps it's time you heard a little story-about a demon who killed an overlord and took his place."

The wielder of the Nexus amulet had power over all demons in the underworld. I should have known, but how could I? Even Julia didn't have the slightest idea that she went to bed with the very creature she had sworn to destroy.

"You are..."

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"The Demon Overlord. Yes."

I shook my head slowly. "I don't believe you; tell me this is all a lie, please..." I begged, tears streaming down my eyes. He was all I had, and I didn't want to believe it. A part of me wished I had swallowed whatever curiosity I had and just kept away from this room.

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“Pathetic little girl, fell in love with a demon. Curiosity kills the cat; now you will have your answers... at a price." He whispered.

"This is all a lie; tell me this is all a lie, Trian." I pleaded, but he continued anyway.

"Getting into the city and the castle was easier than I thought it would be. A few lies, and Julia was willing to give me a position, but I had to prove myself; I had to make her know that I was capable of protecting you, so I sent those men."

My body went numb as the memory resurfaced: the three men who had killed the two soldiers assigned to watch over me and also Vera, my maid. She had tried protecting me, but got a bullet in the head for that. They were about to rape me before he saved me. Little did I know that it was all part of his plan.

The blood drained from my face, and I knew I looked paler than ever.

"They killed Vera and those soldiers-they were good people and they died protecting me."

Chapter One Hundred and Fiftee

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That's the problem, Allya; sometimes good people have to die just so we can get what we want. With those soldiers gone, the spot was open to me, and of course, Julia wanted you protected, so she gave me the post." "Why? Why did you do it?” I questioned, my vision blurred by tears; it all didn't make sense. Last night was the best night of my life, but then everything changed in just a matter of hours.

"The Empresses plan to end me; they can't do that without you, and so I needed to steal you away from them." He said the smirk on his lips only grew wider. "You see, the first time I took you out of the castle, I was running a test. I wanted to see how much you enjoyed life outside the castle, and it turns out you were desperate for it. I would have gotten you out of there a long time ago; the flesh eaters were supposed to be a distraction, but then I arrived at your room, but you weren't there. You've left the castle on your own and destroyed my plans."

I remembered it all. Julia had been asking about him; she thought he was with me, and I thought he was with her, but all the while he was out there plotting. I left the room out of boredom, unaware that I was unknowingly playing into his plan. At the time, the soldiers were all absent, and I had worried it might be a trap-it felt far too easy to escape the castle without being caught. And I was right.

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