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For fuck’s sake.
“Alright. Leave so we can have our discussion and make haste,” I stressed and shooed them to the door. “The faster you move, the faster we’ll get to our destination and retrieve your Momo.”
“VIVIVO!” they cheered in unison and began waltzing to the door and finally into the hallway.
Without another peep, I closed the door before they could change their minds and try to conduct some sort of ambush on me. With the turn of the lock, I was finally able to let out a sigh of frustration but closed my eyes for a single moment to prepare myself for this next confrontation.
It’s time to face my mate.
3
Are We Lovers Or Enemies?
Istared at the knob of the door in wait, my ears desperate to pick up on Lexianne’s first set of words. Surely she’d be the first to speak before I was forced to turn around and face the next elephant in the room, but I was counting every passing second while my mind focused on Lex’s sacrifice.
“I sacrificed the ability to have kids.”
It was so unexpected—a mystery that no matter how many clues were pushed in my direction, they would have never helped me understand why that was so easy to give up.
Especially for my sake.
Before I’d become the Creator of Demon Valley, I’d pictured a life where I could have kids. I guessed it was a weird balance of fable and wishful thinking—the Malifer Shade from the past surely imagining scenarios where Laura would be the mother of my children while Nathan Shade envisioned a future with Lexianne who would give birth to our next generation.
With everything revealed, it felt odd to acknowledge my other half as his own identity, especially when we’d acted on our own for so long that sometimes I forgot he was my Astra form. It would take time for things to process, for the memories of the past to really come rolling in and reveal everything I’d clearly forgotten, but no matter how many times I tried to distract myself, my mind went back to that prime statement.
“It’s not a big deal. I sacrificed the ability to have kids.”
Not a big deal. I bet it was a big deal, but what options did she have?
My demon quietly observed my thought process while my wolf gave me his full attention. The fury in the lines of his face was obvious, but his eyes projected a deeper story. He was thinking of the challenges our mate had gone through, a double life where she pretended to be an innocent, naive girl who didn’t know what was going on, and yet in the depths of the night, she was tortured because she knew everything and was a threat.
I felt helpless thinking about it, and maybe that was why I couldn’t gather the courage to turn around. The heaviness in my heart was as if I’d been humiliated—my defeated pride coming to the surface because I couldn’t be there for my real mate.
If I’d been less absorbed in my rooted desires for revenge, would I have figured things out sooner? Would I have grasped the pieces, little by little, and clued in on the truth that was hidden from me?
Placing my forehead against the door frame, I closed my eyes and allowed myself to see a mere glimpse of the torturous memories that reflected what my Sweet Lex had endured all for my sake.
The screams—her high-pitched cries for salvation—while echoing vibrations from the sound of whips strikings one’s flesh created a chorus of agony and verses of whimpers. The sounds were just the tip of the iceberg—the scents of sweat, blood, and salt that rose from the very tears that flooded my sweet Lex’s flushed cheeks teased my nostrils like it was something to be inhaled and appreciated.
The intense heat of the underground was matched with the sweltering humidity that fought to choke anyone forced to be down there for too long. A clock ticked in the background as if the very sounds were there to emphasize how slow each second would pass while the strikes of pain seemed to never end.
I hadn’t even gotten a true glimpse of her atmosphere and it was enough to make me want to puke, but before I pulled out of the very memory, I could hear the taunting laughter that mocked her suffering.
Again, and again, until that was surely all she could hear for hours on end.
“To do all of this for a mate. Aren’t you ashamed? Have an ounce of respect for yourself. Is that virgin pussy of yours so desperate for his cock that you’re willing to take all this torture? How foolish of you to think he’ll be the one to break that hymen of yours and fill that womb with nothing but his seed. He’ll be dead before that can ever happen.”
The words were spoken by my own father, the same phrase of belittling grace that became some sort of biblical verse to slice through any strand of hope she carried for our fated love.
“A few more months and that day will finally come. History will repeat itself, and upon that very cliff just above the shadowed valley, your love will face the same fate after you shatter his heart with your rejection. Then no one else will be in my way and you, my ugly monster, will be mine for the taking. All ripe and ready just for me to keep in my dungeon.”
His laughter was the most obnoxious sound I’d ever heard, and to think this was the man who once raised us in hopes we’d become noblemen to take his place.What a fucking façade.I braced for his next words, as if I knew within my very soul they would be his parting words.
“Then I’ll fuck you. Again, and again, and again. Not for a few hours, not for a few days, but until the very walls of that pussy of yours only grace my fucking cock and you’re but a sex puppet like all those female sluts that stare at you in envy. The pack won’t even notice you’re gone, trapped in the hollows of this special dungeon made just for an ugly monster like you. Then, when you give me the heir I need, I’ll leave you chained and craving me until you die a humiliating death. At least you’ll be with your fated mate in the pits of hell.”
With that, my demon shut down the memories like shutting a vault. His fury was on the verge of forcing me into submission, just so he could step up to the plate of control and deliver an eternity of wrath to the sole individual who was the true villain behind a mask of innocence.
“Keep that up and you’re going to make this whole place come down.”
