Sealing them inside his newly formed protective barriers, Lux placed her down carefully as she struggled into a sitting position on top of the Pentagram, blocking the demons' exit to this dimension.

As she stopped resisting his hold on her, Luna collapsed to the floor.

Lux tugged at her hair gently to force her to look into his eyes.

Luna grimaced through the pain as she asked, "Why do you want a body in the Vampyr Realm?"

"For fun?" The Archdemon of Lust faced her fully, its grin expanding. "I just want a body so that I can create chaos with my brother."

"B-brother?" Luna stuttered as her hands tented over her mouth as unwelcome tears tracked down her cheeks, smearing the blood already splattered there.

"The Archdemon of Gluttony, duh. The one who possessed the Vampire King." The Archdemon of Lust began to swipe…swipe…swipe at the imaginary bodies…clothes and skin ripping, bones cracking, tissues flying and mutilating.

Lux bent down and licked her cheek full of tears and blood. "This is a bargain. Since you are a good listener, what do you want me to do for you aside from closing the portal?"

"I wish to separate the Vampire King from the Blood Beast." Luna's body and mind were both paralyzed.

Her feelings were the only thing that changed.

"How do I do it?"

The fear of the consequences, the shock of the existences of two Archdemons in the same realm, the grief of not knowing about what the future holds for her…each pressing against her chest, nearly suffocating her.

"I don't think you have the strength to grant my wish when one snap of a finger and I can turn you into dust," Lux said in a deep, rasping voice. "You are pretty weak right now."

She picked up on an undertone of pleasure as if the murder was merely a game.

Luna's heart crashed into her ribs, causing bile to burn its way to her chest and up her throat.

She let out a sob, a mixture of incredulity and wrath.

"I'm hungry."

"For sex?" Lux's demon claws retracted as he lifted her chin to look up at him, staring deep into her eyes.

Lux was extremely handsome.

If one can ignore the darkness of the Archdemon's soul, of course.

Luna moved her face away from his grasp.

"For blood," Luna admitted.

Her humiliation remained hot and deep, like a fire in her blood, but she would not admit to a moment of weakness.

She was well aware of the situation.

The bastard dared to twist his lips with enjoyment as she stared at him with a quiet protest.

Oh, how that irritated her—not that she would ever tell him.

She would never do anything to please him in any way, but Luna would never cower in his presence, either.

Yes, Lux was a monster of the worst kind: power-hungry, egotistical, and ignorant of the truth.

He had the ability to harm her if he so desired.

And would.

He already had.

"I see you have become a vampire." More eerie laughter—before Lux dragged his sharp talons on her neck again. "I could put two and two together. So the pureblood had turned you?"

"The Blood Beast, no, the Archdemon of Gluttony is my mate." Though everything inside her rebelled at the thought of telling him the truth, she had to do it if she hoped to get rid of the Vampire King's curse with this Archdemon's help.

The Archdemon of Lust always figured everything out sooner or later.

It was better to tell him earlier on.

"Archdemons didn't have mates." Lux's amusement drained, and he frowned with exasperation. "Our kind isn't built for that."

"He possessed the body of a pureblood vampire, and he bound me with his blood, making me his mate." Luna snapped.

Lux's frown morphed into a scowl, the pretence of being here to help her vanished. "You are my sister-in-law then?"

'To get what you want--' Finally, a flicker of a thought. It sounded like the Goddess Hecate's guidance, and she listened to it carefully, "--you have to be patient with what you have.'

The realization gave her the strength to free herself from the self-imposed mental prison.

With a roar that sprang from a soul soon to be shredded by bloodlust, Luna launched herself into Lux's chest.

Her sheer force knocked him off-balance. Lux fell backward but swiftly recovered, rolling her over and pinning her down.

Wings outstretched, he curtained the rest of the world so that only the two of them existed.

"Non, ego sum Dominus, Luxen." Luna licked her lips in anticipation as adrenaline surged through her, making her limbs shake." Let me drink your blood."

Lux batted her hands away and tried to…kiss her?

"There was no need to control me, Domina." Laughing, laughing, never stopping with the laughing, Lux pressed his lips against hers, blew delicious breaths into her mouth, and shivered with pleasure, ecstasy shining into his eyes. "I would gladly give it to you."

Author's Note:

These Archdemons also inspired me to make a story about Archangels.

Making a special arc for that sounds fun, and I would have to read a lot of inspiration to write more.

This gave me a lot of ideas.

So what do you think? Please comment down below and let me know so that I could also improve. Your opinions are welcome, but please be kind to this sensitive author.

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Thank you for reading. :)

I know the story is fast-paced, and many things are happening in just a few chapters, but it will slow down on Volume 2 once I have established my story plot and the tension had already mellowed.

Please give this novel a chance.

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