Mated To The Demon Prince-Chapter 112: Myself And You
’’How about you be my queen, instead?’’
He asked, and she wished he were joking, but the crazed and amused smirk that curved his lips told her otherwise.
’’What?’’
’’You don’t want to be a woman in my harem. That means you want to be my little queen, Charlotte?’’
Eva couldn’t believe this. The more she stared at him, the more of a joker he appeared to be.
’You don’t want to be a woman in my harem.’
Was that really an option? Would he have made her a member of his harem if she wanted to?
She stared at him for the longest time and thought it was time she told him to be more specific about what he wanted from her.
’’Ree-ree?’’
The grin that overtook his face resembled one you would have if you had just been offered a shiny pot of gold.
’’Yes?’’ he mused, leaning close, and she fought the urge to roll her eyes. She was still calling him that because she still couldn’t remember his name—and it would be weird calling him the demon prince, wouldn’t it be?
’’What were your intentions in being close to me and making me your friend? Was it to make me your new addition to your growing harem, or are there more reasons I should know about?’’
He gave her some breathing space and stood before her, his dark, beautiful, and haunting aura surprisingly pulling her close. She wondered why that smile hadn’t left his face yet.
When he didn’t say anything but observed her—as if she were some kind of incredibly expensive art on display—she decided to voice all her thoughts and concerns so that he could start taking her more seriously about this.
He needed to know that whatever they had for each other, when he was still that loving and invisible phantom of hers, could no longer be possible between them.
’’Look, if I want to be honest with you,’’
He didn’t say a word, keeping his eyes fixed on hers and allowing her to pour her mind out to him.
’’I was young, dumb, and foolish. You were the only... invisible force in my life at that time that was super nice and close to me, so it was only expected of me to develop some kind of... feelings for... you.’’
The demon tilted his head slightly before her in interest.
’’Mind you, those feelings I now realize weren’t romantic in any way but were just mere attachment and a consequence of my loneliness. Now, having lost my humanity and basically... everything because of my attachment to you, and being forced to live in the skin of this person in this strange world of monsters, werewolves, and magicians, I figured this has just been a big mistake. You are not who I thought you were, and I am pretty sure deep down you are not happy with who I have become... to prevent any more unnecessary dramas or heartbreak... why don’t we go our separate ways and pretend none of this ever happened? I am willing to ignore how you crashed my wedding and... killed my suitor-to-be when he had done nothing to deserve such a cruel death so that we could both find our peace in our separation.’’
His silence began to get under her skin, but she tried to keep it together and kept voicing her thoughts and concerns.
’’We can’t be together, Ree-ree. Not anymore. I can’t be your queen and definitely not your little whore. I can’t be anything in your life the same as I am in mine. It would have been different if you had told me just who I was getting myself entangled with right from the beginning. I’m sorry and exhausted already, and I just want this thing between us to end... please.’’
For a moment, his expression and thoughts were unreadable. It fueled her anxiety about what he was going to do next—how he was going to respond to her truth. The air around them tensed with each breath they took, and for the next moment, he looked detached from himself before reconnecting again and giving her a response.
’’I was not stupid when I hid my true self from you at first, when I came to you as that invisible presence you adored so much. It was my only way of making you interested in me the way I am with you. I looked at myself and sometimes feared what I have become and what I could be in the coming minutes. You would only fear and hate me, just as you are now, and that moment I had with you when I was something else wouldn’t have been possible.’’
Eva screamed when he had her pinned to the wall again with far more brutal force. His dark, gloved hands resting on the wall cracked under the weight of the pressure he applied, and Eva looked genuinely scared by the darkened gaze with which he tortured her next.
’’Being who I am can only bring me power, fear, and submission to all that my hands grasp, but it could never have you be mine. I will do anything, be anything, destroy worlds, and kill anyone who stands in my way of having you. You might think what I have for you isn’t love...but I also don’t care what it is. All that ever made sense to me since the moment I laid my eyes on your pretty little face was how meaningful my existence could be if I could make you mine.’’
Eva gasped again in fear when one of his fingers began to lay a cold trail down the left side of her cheek. Those hands then curved around her neck, inciting a death chill down her spine.
’’You could literally have me worship you daily, Charlotte. Every... inch... of... you...’’
He leaned to the side of her face, close to her ears. His other hand curved around her waist as he drew impossibly close. Eva held her breath, her eyes closed in preparation and acceptance of the overwhelming pleasure that would follow the moment his lips began to work wonders on her skin.
’’You are still ignorant of the great power you have over a devil like me. That’s more reason for me to keep you close, so you wouldn’t be a weapon of my downfall in the hands of an enemy.’’
She moaned, even though she tried to bottle it all in, as his lips brushed lightly against the skin of her neck. Her head tilted slightly to give him more of her, and it was as if her body had a mind of its own the moment he became too close.
’’Be a good little girl and don’t try to fight it,’’ he said as he pulled away without doing more than just brushing his lips all over the skin of her neck.
’’I honestly want to care about how you feel, but it is only going to bring us further apart, which I don’t want. But... I have been told once to always believe in the impossible. I will make you fall helplessly in love with me the way I am right after I crown you my queen.’’
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’’They said they needed someone to sneak the god-slaying dagger and give it to Evangeline in the dungeons to free herself from the demon prince’s captivity and end it all in the process. The Alpha King said, last in court, that this had been the plan of the goddess all along. We should not send any rescue team or troupes to the dungeons. We should find a sneaky way to hand her the god-slaying dagger and tell her how to make use of it, and then leave her to her fate and a chance to fulfil her destiny in the easiest way,’’ the Vampire King said one evening to his family at the dinner table.
Pale, dead faces, their lips slightly dripping with blood from their goblets, all turned to each other in reasoning.
’’But how is it going to be easier for the princess to take down the demon prince on her own than storm the dungeons to rescue her from those wicked hands and take the demon prince by surprise with the god-slaying dagger?’’
Everyone thought the same as well. The moon goddess’s ways were indeed mysterious, reckless, and dangerous. They could never comprehend what went on in her crooked mind. They could do nothing but submit to her ways and let things go according to her.
Everyone present at the table kept to themselves once more. The eternal royal family of the vampire kingdom all deliberated in silence while helping themselves with blood.
’’So, who’s going to be brave enough to head down to the dungeons and give Princess Evangeline the god-slaying dagger?’’ the Vampire Queen asked beside her husband.
’’It is yet to be decided by the werewolf community who is going to be chosen to—’’
’’I will go for their sake, Father,’’ Andrea announced, frightening every single one of her family at the table as all heads turned to her in disbelief.
