Chapter 121 - Challenging The Devil
"I will give you an ability to access magic if you stay with here and beco my queen for eternity." Ravin stood so close as if he couldn't bear the thought of giving her personal space because the Archdemon thought he had owned every space in Hell.
"I couldn't wait to claim you as mine." Ravin cupped her neck and tilted her head, whispering huskily in her ear. "I would make you forget the Vampire King's existence."
Luna glanced up at the Archdemon of Gluttony when she felt his burning gaze.? "If an Archdemon wanted a woman, all he had to do was whisper sweet nothings softly in her ear for if she hears, it will echo in her head many tis."
The bastard had the audacity to smirk at her when their eyes t.
Evil is, above all things, seductive.
When the devil knocks on your door, he doesn't have cloven hooves.
The devil is beautiful and offers you your heart's desire in whispered airs like a siren, beckoning you to ruinous shores.
The Archdemon appeared smug--accompanying it with a wide grin--as if he was promising her the world and expected her to jump for joy and be grateful for his offer.
She didn't.
"Next. I have had enough, Ravin." Luna had expected much more than this, but she already expected her offer. "You can shut up now."
Luna knew him well enough if it wasn't for Apollyon.
They used to share the sa body and sa consciousness even though the other was trapped when one of them ca out.
"You are in an Archdemon's territory, and now you are telling to shut up?" Ravin's voice was deep and clear as he dropped his gorgeous smile, his words toneless.
He was a threat.
A cool, dangerous presence.
"I think I'm better when it cos to sex if that's what you are curious about." Luna sputtered, scandalized by what he had said so casually as if they were talking about the weather.
"You and your bargains. Was that all you wanted from ? " Shaking her head, Luna glared at him. "Sex?"
Oh, she didn't have the mood for an Archdemon's charms.
It was an insult to her character.
"You have severely low expectations on my character if you think I would agree to this. I did not sign up for this. Take back to the Vampire Realm and pick one from your Kingdom." She was breathing hard, trying to control her temper that the action alone made her sll his scent, enticing her further. "Stop wasting my ti, having this useless conversation."
Ah, Ravin had slled divine that she couldn't help but inhale more of his scent despite her frustration.
"You are acting like Apollyon, and I couldn't handle two misogynistic pigs in one day," Luna said, noting that Ravin had slled like crisp winter wind around a hotter fla of blue.
"Are you---" It was hilarious to hear Ravin stutter because it made her feel like he was the opposite of 'danger'.
"Are you calling a misogynistic pig?" The Archdemon of Gluttony appeared cold and emotionless, but there was amusent in his tone. "How dare you?'
"Yes, I am Ravin. Your mind had been incorporated with Apollyon's that it didn't co as a shock to that you operate the sa way." Luna glanced down at her feet because she couldn't handle the naked heat in his golden eyes.
"I can't handle my husband sotis, and you're signing up also to beco a bane of my existence?" Luna said without looking at the male who stood in front of her, his height towering more nacingly over her as minutes go by.
She waved a dismissivehand, "Thanks, but no thanks."
"But they aren't you." He said in a grim confirmation. "You are my wife."
If anyone would have listened to this conversation, they would probably find this amusing.
She wasn't amused at all.
"I have three husbands from different Realms, and there were respected Kings, two of them were Archdemons, in their own right but why can't nobody treat right and just continue dishing the sa old bullshit in the silver platter?" Luna said out loud, complaining to nobody in particular. "By the Goddess Hecate's na, I would rather be alone than being with one husband how much more if you and Luxen were in the picture?"
"If you sample in bed, I bet I can change your mind."? She heard that dark promise in his husky voice, especially when he caressed her arms, seducing her to sin, tempting her to commit adultery.
The Archdemon looked serious as hell.
How did one commit adultery when you have three husbands?
"My needs are pretty simple. Ravin." Luna shifted her gaze to face him, and Ravin's golden eyes had gone lighter. "Can I have a husband that wouldn't put any conditions over my head at least once? A husband who wouldn't kill if I made a mistake? A husband who would give everything he got without taking from , such as asking for sothing in exchange? A husband who would love unconditionally no matter what I do and regardless of who I am?"
The colour of Ravin's eyes was beyond amber and hazel, but it beca a pure crystalline purity of yellowish hues the more she spoke to him. "A love that isn't similar to a fla that sparks in a short period of ti before it crashes and burns. A love that isn't filled with ego, suffering, selfishness, disappointnt and betrayal."
Ravin's eyes had dilated, only the jet black of his pupils broke the startling yellowish-golden depths of them. "A love that isn't of lack and blaming each other when things go wrong. A love which isn't forced."
"A love that would not hold back and treat like I was a slave to the mating bond." Luna pressed on. "A love that isn't focused on possessing each other like the other person is a bird that must be placed inside a gilded cage. I want a love that would give freedom, not an irreversible contract."
Luna parted her lips to argue with him more, but when she jerked her attention back to him, his pupils had flared.
His eyes were a sea of darkness which had already eclipsed the translucent gold in them.
"My love for you is eternal regardless of who you are regardless of the situation, but I will love you with the only way I know how," Ravin said, his tone was flat and even, yet his voice was hauntingly beautiful in its clarity and pitch.
Luna's heart started to pound as she sensed the lethal strength which he was emitting at the mont.
Was he using magic in his voice so that he could convince her to give herself to him?
Did he profess his undying love for her so that she would agree to beco his Queen?
Kings were well-known for empty promises.
"I have been an Archdemon for a very long ti. I was in the Vampire Realm inside Apollyon's body for millennia, but I have known that love was nothing if it wasn't for all the things you ntioned."
Ravin continued to hold her gaze without discomfort, and Luna automatically read them as a challenge, but every ti he talked to her, his clear voice made things inside her shiver with awareness.
The more she stayed in his presence, the harder it was to control herself.
"There are many kinds of love a creature can experience, and I can give you that if you choose ." He said, his words clipped and cold.
She had already suspected an odd resonance she couldn't quite explain which had elicited a peculiar physical response from her.
It was magic, but nothing had compared her suspicions yet.
Luna couldn't believe she was caught in this tragic love triangle between the Vampire King and an Archdemon.
She must respect her husband even if the Archdemon of Gluttony had better promises and a much more beneficial proposition.
Luna didn't think she would dare to replace Apollyon even if she is given a chance to experience profound love from an Archdemon.
Impossible.
Archdemons are ruthless, perhaps more ruthless than Apollyon, and weren't capable of love.
Ravin had already told her this a long ti ago, so why would he change for her to make her stay?
Can his love be real, powerful and undying?
There were suddenly dark red embers glowing to life inside of her. "There is a clear distinction about being giving of my love and giving myself up for love."
Just because Ravin made her feel so way like Apollyon didn't an she had lost her common sense.
Narrowing her eyes, she said, "I don't want to love out of guilt or obligation because that's too tiring and will lead to a lot of resentnt."
"You are an Amazon, but I admire the mystery of your femininity." The Archdemon of Gluttony folded his arms, setting his feet apart to assert his dominance. "I bet you are a sensual goddess in bed because I have sent spies all over the Vampire Realm to watch over you."
Ravin's voice went huskier, deeper, straight out of a woman's fantasy, making them his slaves. "My spies… They say your sexual appetites are legendary after the Vampire King deflowered you in the marriage bed."
"Had the Feline King struck a chord in your mory? " Ravin raised an eyebrow in both curiosity and fascination. "I hear you seem to favour Kings as your lovers. "
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