His Little Demon

Chapter Eighteen

(Vasileios's POV)

If there was one thing I learned about Daimonáki mou it's that she can sleep through just about anything. The only thing that has the power to disturb her sleep is if I move too far away. I don't know how she always knows but she does. She'll start to make distress sounds and then start moving around. If I'm away long enough then she'll open her eyes and search for me. The first time it happened she started to cry and it nearly broke me.

I had to explain all of this to Tak, Kastor, and a few others as they stared her from where they sat. She was curled up beside me buried underneath a blanket with her head in my lap. She fell asleep shortly after she'd told me about the picture. They were worried about waking her up as we spoke, but I assured them she'd stay fast asleep as long as I didn't move too much.

"Cosmo had every intention to keep her locked up so he didn't always worry about what she heard or saw. Some odd years ago when he first set out to set up shop here, he had a meeting with all his guys and handed out my picture. He wanted his guys to know my face so that if I ever got to close he could disappear. One of them accidentally dropped the picture on their way out and it slipped underneath the door of her fucking cage. Having heard everything they said, hearing the fear in their voices as they spoke of me, she considered me to be her saving grace. All she could do was hope and pray that one of them would mess up and end up on our radar."

"For her to hold on for that long...after everything..." Tak shook his head as he trailed off.

"I've got some guys picking up the last fucker who paid for her as we speak and Lo is still working on finding her brother, the woman, and the other guy."

"And if it leads to the states?" Kastor asked.

"Then we'll go. Gotta deal with it sooner or later."

"Going to give him a call first?"

"I'd prefer to make it a surprise."

"He hates surprises."

"Wouldn't be fun if he didn't."

An hour later my guys got back with the third guy. Like Lo said, he was some rich fuck who likes to spend his daddy's money. They found him in one of the casinos losing more than he was winning.

"You go on ahead. I've got to wake her." I told the guys.

Once they were gone, I gently woke my sleepy little demon. She opened her eyes just enough to glare at me before she grumbled and buried her face against my stomach.

"Don't want to join me downstairs to watch Ares play with the last guy we got?"

Her eyes popped open and small grin appeared on her lips.

"Thought so." I smiled as she sat up which caused Ares to lift his head. Obsessed with her just as much as I was.

I stood and offered her my hand. She smacked it away before holding out her arms and insisting that I pick her up.

"I think I've created a monster." I teased, lifting her into my arms. She wrapped herself around me before burying her face against my neck and letting out a contented sigh.

The fucker came to his senses real quick once I walked in with her in my arms. He took one look at her and recognition was all over his face. When he realized who I was, he quite literally pissed himself and started to cry.

"How you wanna do this, Babe?" I asked her. With her head on my shoulder, she watched him for several minutes before she opened her mouth and surprised us all.

"Ares, uccidere*."
(Ares, kill*.)

Ares launches himself at the fucker and began tearing him to pieces. Daimonáki mou stayed right as she was and watched until he was nothing more than bloody pieces of meat scattered across the floor.

"Bath time." She said once Ares came back my side.

She was very serious about Ares's healthy and cleanliness. When he's that covered in blood she demands he be bathed and even goes so far as to brush his teeth with bacon flavored dog toothpaste. He gladly lets her do anything she pleases and gives her kisses once she's finished. She brushes all three of their coats daily and makes sure their nails aren't too long or bothering them.

"Clean this up and then head home. Take tomorrow off." I told everyone after popping the bullet with the man's name on it into what was left of his head.

Once bath time was over and Ares was all clean, teeth included, she sat in the floor and brushed his coat. Athen and Titan came over once they saw the brush and patiently waited their turn.

"Do with puppies?" She asked, starting on Athena.

"From scans we know there are six of them. Definitely going to keep one or two of them and the ot-"

"All of them." She said, pinning me with a hard glare. She was so adorable when she tried to be hateful or have an attitude towards me.

"We keeping all of them? Nine dogs? Lots to take care of, bathe, feed, brush, spoil." I said, sitting on the edge of the bed.

Chewing on her plump bottom lip, she thought for a minute before responding.

"T-Tak and Kas one."

"Tak and Kastor can have one?"

She nodded. "Lo too. Can visit them."

"Apollo gets one too."

"Not sister." My possessive girl growled out.

"Alright. Six for us and one each for Tak, Lo, and Kas. Not Lo's sister though. No puppy for her. Will have to find another reason to visit her." I teased.

A second later my back was flat to the bed as she straddled my lap and pointed the brush threateningly at my face.

"Two Tak. No for Lo."

Tangling my hands in her hair, I pulled her down so we were nose to nose.

"Such a territorial little thing, aren't you." I teased some more, nipping at her bottom lip.

She got rid of the brush before poking her finger into my chest, right where her favorite word was carved into my skin. "Mine. Mine. Mine."

"Yours. Yours. Yours." I mumbled, sealing her mouth with mine. She melted into me like wax and let me manhandle her until our positions were flipped so that she was on her back and I was on top of her.

"My gorgeous, territorial little demon," I whispered, trailing kisses down across her jaw and the side of her neck. "What am I going to do with you?"

"K-Keep forever."

I chuckled, nipping at her delicate skin. "Already planned on that, sweet girl. Never going to let you go."

She grabbed my sides, clenching fistfuls of my shirt in her fists as she turned her head and let me continue my assault on her neck.

"Maybe..."

"Maybe what?"

She went still and started chewing on her lip.

"Maybe what?" I asked again.

"Maybe.....l-love me."

That time I was the one who went still. After a second, I tangled one hand in her hair and forced her to look at me directly.

"You want my love, Sweet girl?"

She wasted no time nodding.

"You already have it."

I kissed her then, licking at her lip before nibbling her flesh until the metallic taste of her blood hits my tongue. She kisses me back with the same intensity until our blood and saliva is mixing together.

"My love for you is lethal, Daimonáki mou."

"W-What?" She asked, her blood red lips brushing mine as she spoke.

"I will hurt those who hurt you, think about hurting you, try to take you away from me, look at you wrong, or disrespect you in any way. I will kill them and I won't think twice about it. From now until the end, you're mine. We're going to be so fucking tied together that people won't know where you end and I begin."

"P-Promise."

I laughed softly. "I promise."