Hell's Consort

Newest chapter of Highest Tier (June 2022)

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ARCHDEMON EMPRESS LUNA

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Luna frantically brushed the invisible lint of her floor-lengthed skirts as the large loose sleeves on her arms fluttered in the air like wings almost covering her hands.

As she stood at the entrance of Apollyon's brand new lair, Luna stretched her arms in front of her to check if her robes were fastened in its proper place.

She guessed she was just going to have to rely upon personal inspection because since she had no mirror to check if she still looked presentable.

'Spotless.' Luna exhaled a huge sigh and allowed her hands drop to the sides. 'I had to be perfect in the eyes of my mate.'

She wasn't used wearing to these types of fabrics and heavy ornaments in a long time.

Her luxurious robes looked extremely beautiful fitting Empress of the Vampire Kingdom and it felt good to be herself again without other Archdemon possessing her physical vessel for their

own agenda.

Unfortunately, her Archdemon familiars had insisted that she dress like a forbidden woman--a virgin--so that she wouldn't incite the Vampire King's sexual desires and provoke him to expose his sinful nature.

Hands on his hips, Sloth drawled as he scanned her from head to toe with his hooded eyes. "That's what you get if your husband had turned into the new Archdemon of Lust."

Luna asked him to elaborate but he merely drove his fingers to his light blond hair and shrugged as if that half-hearted response was enough.

She folded her arms over her chest and scowled at him until he spoke but she hadn't expected the man to turn his back, lift his right hand in a wave before heading towards the door. "You look good with the clothes my brother had picked for you tonight. I'm sure the Vampire King would appreciate----"

"---my bright green eyes, you mean?" Luna cut him off in a sarcastic tone.

Her garments had covered her entire body, her head and her face leaving only a narrow slit for her eyes.

"----our efforts for protecting you from your mate's Archdemon nature." Sloth finished before he rushed to the exit of her dressing room.

He walked so briskly as if he couldn't wait to get away from her presence while muttering, "You would thank us if you got out of the Vampire King's room alive without him forcing himself on you.".

Scandalized, she opened her mouth to throw one last retort but no words had come out.

Too late, Sloth had already slammed the door with a loud bang.

'How crude!' Luna thought furiously as she paced around the room.

The five fae maidservants, that Queen Morgan had gifted them before they returned to the Vampire Kingdom, cast her some furtive glances as they folded the discarded gowns she had put on earlier to choose the best gown to wear for her reunion with the Vampire King.

'How did Sloth and Ravin even came up with the conclusion that her husband would hurt her that way?'

What did she even to offend him? 𝒇𝔯e𝚎𝘄𝑒𝑏𝙣𝑜𝚟𝗲𝑙.c𝘰𝚖

Ah, yes!

She paused and snapped her finger in realization.

She had disturbed Sloth's sleep, after all. 𝐟re𝐞w𝐞𝒃𝓃𝒐𝐯𝚎𝒍.c૦𝚖

Even if her Familiar's words didn't make sense at that moment, she decided to follow Sloth and Ravin's advice just to be on the safe side.

'This long gown was her shield from the Archdemon of Lust, then.' Luna frowned. 'I might as well be wearing lemon colored blankets.'

Would her husband still going to be the same even he had turned into a Vampire Archdemon just like her?

In the blink of an eye, dark thoughts had hovered around her head like gloomy clouds.

Unshed tears had blurred her vision and when she lowered her head, teardrops started to fall.

A year had already passed since she last saw him awake.

Apollyon was unconscious so she couldn't talk to him like they used to.

'Was this the karma that she had to pay for leaving him in the same tower just like what she had done in the past?' She sniffed, wiping her tear-stained cheeks with clenched fists.

Luna had attempted to wake him but the Goddess of the Underworld had warned her not to do anything and let time run its course or else his sacrifice would be ruined.

Now, she had no idea what sacrifice the Goddess was talking about and not even the people present during her childbirth knew about it.

She could only speculate that it was the number of days that he had to be asleep and miss his precious daughters' growth.

Luna refused to dwell on something more complicated than that.

When she sensed that her mate was awake and moving at the other side of this door, her nerves turned jittery that she had to shake her trembling hands to get rid of the panic bubbling in her throat.

Hecate had also revealed recipes of anti-aphrodisiac potions written in blood on the blank pages of her grimoire to quell the Vampire King's libido and she trickled the liquid on her husband's parted lips every mid-afternoon and midnight without fail.

Luna doubted that those things could turn her husband as celibate as a priest but she hoped that it could, at least, make him loyal to her as a mate.

Give him enough self-control that he wouldn't f*ck the first woman that caught his eye.

Apollyon was already lustful before he even met her and she would be damned if she had to handle someone a thousand times worse than that.

The situation was unpredictable that even she, had no idea what side of Apollyon will she meet.

As long as he wouldn't try to kill her and their children, she would tolerate whatever he had become.

She took a deep breath in and out and herself together.

Luna had survived being a single parent to mischievous twins while curbing her Archdemon Familiars' desires to conquer this Realm in one year.

'You should be easy to handle, husband.' Luna mused with a small smile.

Luna knocked thrice.

Without waiting for an answer, she opened the door and entered.