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The Empress Luna

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"Stay away from me," Luna recoiled at Ravin's touch and pushed him away. "Please."

She might have recoiled but the Archdemon of Gluttony had not seen this as a rejection.

Still, his brows wrinkled as he wiped the remaining smeared blood from Luna's face.

"I just want to check up on you if Lilith had done anything to hurt you." Ravin said as he lifted her so she could lean on him better.

"I want to go home, Ravin." Luna brought a shaky hand on her forehead as she asked, "Why are you doing this to me?"

With increasing whimpers of pain and resentment, Luna had lashed out at him accusingly. "You promised me before, Ravin, that you would take me back to the Vampire Realm for good if I didn't like your human sacrifice with the Archdemon of Envy and I fucking didn't."

"You seemed to have forgotten the bargain, Amare. How could I allow such a bargain that wouldn't benefit me as an Archdemon? We had learnt the art of making contracts with all creatures in this mad world." As he hunched over her with slumped shoulders, it appeared like Ravin had had enough.

He was tired of explaining his actions to her because Luna wouldn't understand the drives of an Archdemon on why they do the things they do, anyway.

The Archdemon had sighed as he continued in a monotone voice. "If you have remembered the exact words I had uttered, I didn't tell you specifically at that time that I wouldn't summon you back here in Hell, Luna."

"I fucking hate you Ravin." Narrowing her eyes, she gave Ravin a flat look as her voice rose with growing intensity.

Locking her arms into fists, she moved her rested body away from the Archdemon and increased her distance.

Despite her legs feeling like they had turned into jelly, she carefully stood up and straightened as Ravin also did a similar thing.

Luna muttered under her breath as they faced each other. "If you weren't an Archdemon I would have cursed you to Hell and back but then you fucking live here, you bastard!"

Looking a bit contrite, the Archdemon of Gluttony had stepped forward and grabbed her hand but she swatted them away.

Gritting her teeth, she said. "Your apologies are going to be unappreciated so don't waste your time."

She looked past Ravin who was in front on her and turned her attention towards the bane of her existence.

Luna witnessed how the mad High Priestess had fought Luxen like a wild animal, baring her teeth while peeking at her through Luxen's shoulder while she scratched him with her claws.

"If you aren't blood bonded with that trash, Luxen, I would have ended her life as soon as she set her foot in your Kingdom." She shrieked with all her might as the Archdemon of Lust pinned her down with brute force.

"You should fulfil your part of the bargain, Lilith." The Archdemon had reminded Lilith as he lifted her shoulders to give her a vigorous shake that sent her head, bobbing up and down.

Luna had doubted that she would come to her senses.

"You will not destroy her soul in Hell in exchange for her body at the Vampire Realm. " Luxen had snapped at Lilith without hesitation and the bitch had stopped resisting, probably intimidated. "You can do whatever you wanted with it so just focus on that and leave her alone."

Luna had hated that both of them had resumed their conversation as if she was air—as if she wasn't even there listening to them fight in the first place.

She could hear their gooddamned plans out loud.

They must have forgotten that she was a vampire.

Everything had been all about her and Luna had resented how these Archdemons had ruined her life so easily because of their selfishness.

"Excuse me?" Laughing at the Archdemon's ridiculous audacity to mess with her, Luna had tried to approach them as they brawled thirty meters away from her and Ravin had pulled at her elbow.

She turned her head to look over her shoulder and saw Ravin shake his head silently as if telling her not to interfere.

Luna gave him a cold stare and smirked before she held his wrist and brought it down, forcing him to let go.

The Archdemon of Gluttony didn't yell at her for being so stubborn and neither did he resist her.

"Fine, amare, suit yourself." Ravin muttered in indifference as he lifted a loose hand with his palms up as if saying 'who cares?'.

Ravin's eyes wandered to Luxen and Lilith's direction."Just holler if you need help."

Luna did most certainly suit herself because she had approached the two of them—but not within attacking distance from Lilith—and declared with her chest thrust out in confidence, "I would hate to break this to you, Luxen, but my body is my body. It belonged to me. "

As Luna crossed her arms, she had noticed that Ravin had stood behind her with his legs planted wide and his arms also crossed in a dominant gesture, ready to protect her just in case Lilith wanted to hurt her again.

"It's a nice body, though." She heard Ravin whisper in her ear and she shivered at the dark promise in his voice.

Luna couldn't say that she was grateful with Ravin's protection when he was also the reason why she had been sent to Hell in the first place.

Fighting the urge to shake her head, Luna knew this wasn't the appropriate time to flirt so she simply ignored Ravin.

"The Archdemon of Envy didn't have the right to occupy me on the Vampire Realm—"Luna addressed the High Priestess coldly as they tussled about.

Hearing her speak with conviction, both of the Archdemons halted in their tracks.

Moving her gaze to the Archdemon of Lust, she pointed at Luxen, "--and you most certainly didn't have any right to trap my soul in Hell as your wife among many."