The Demon And The Angel | Brypu Cult AU

Chapter 4

Bryan's POV

Despite not wanting to, I had been spending more time in Inpu's room since he had been coming back at random times.

I really didn't have much to do, so I'd spend most of the day sleeping.

What made it even worse was that while he did have a tv in his room, the remote was always put somewhere out of my reach and the area was just small enough where I wouldn't be comfortable flying.

As of recently, he seemed to be in more of a mood when he came home, which freaked me out since I was always scared oh his wrath.

I wasn't really paying attention around the time he came home today, after all, I had been sleeping a good chunk of the day so I was pretty out of it.

When he did get home, I barley made out the sound of something hitting the floor before he entered the room.

Still being out of it, I started to get up to say hi, but as I started to stand up, I was met by a smack to the face and felt myself being shoved back on the bed.

Now being more awake, I began to panic as I saw Inpu start to walk into the bathroom, so being in a panic, I took the opportunity to find another room to hide in.

A few of the guards tried to keep watch while I went to whatever spot I thought I could hide in.

I found a hiding spot not long after, so I decided to get comfortable because I didn't know how long I would be hiding for.

The longer I waited for Inpu to calm down, the more I began to fear for my life.

By now, the lights seemed to be dimmer which I learned was from his magic, and I began to have a small panic attack as he seemed to be getting closer.

All I could hear was him calling my name repeatedly, but no matter how mad he seemed to become, I wasn't budging.

After a while, I heard him sigh, so I thought he was going to stop and take time to calm down, but I felt the mark on my neck start to heat up.

It began to hurt fast, so in an effort to not be found, I covered my mouth with my hand, and when that didn't work, I bit my hand to at least drown out any noise I made.

Eventually, it stopped burning and the shadows left the room, which told me he was giving up.

I was still scared, so I really didn't want to leave my spot, but the pain from the mark was bad enough where I felt like it could be irritated.

When the coast was clear, I snuck out of my hiding spot and went to the kitchen where I knew a first aid kit was, so if I needed to use anything in it, I'd have it available for me.

Once I got myself fixed up, I heard someone walk into the room from behind me, and of course, it was Inpu.

All I could do was avoid eye contact and do what he asked since I couldn't tell if he really calmed down or not.

"If you want to talk about what happened, you need to look me in the eyes"

"Just add on to my punishment, I know running out of the room broke the rule, but I was scared as to what you planned to do to me"

"Damn, and here I was thinking I'd have to tie you down to something in the room"

"To be fair, you did hit me the second I tried to get up and say hi"

"That sounds like an excuse"

"What did you want me to do? Stay there and take whatever abuse you were going to do?"

"What I wanted you to do was have more trust in me"

"Ok, then don't come in and smack me, you want me to trust you, give me a reason to trust you"

He took a step forward and I stepped back, still in fear, but I lost my footing and fell to the ground.

Inpu took another step forward and I started shaking because I wasn't sure what he would do, but instead of continuing towards me, he stopped in his tracks.

I wasn't sure what was happening since I wasn't looking directly at him, so I took a glance and just saw in his eyes that something was wrong.

Before I could ask, my mind started to race and flashes of different punishments the cult would use came to my mind, and I instinctively covered my head.

The flashes weren't leaving my mind and all I could feel was myself against the cabinets.

After a few more minute of me being in a panic, I felt myself being moved.

I could hear a slight heartbeat through my panic, but finally calmed down when I felt myself placed down on something that felt oddly comfortable.

Once I opened my eyes, I noticed that Inpu had moved me so I was sitting on his lap.

Blush began to cover my face as I tried to make it seem like I wasn't focused enough to notice.

He was just sitting back, just trying to keep himself awake but he clearly was starting to fall asleep.

As much as I thought I could be safe, I wasn't sure what his intentions were since he had one of his hands pretty close to my ass.

It was just quiet for a while, until Inpu decided to speak up.

"I know you are aware of how I'm holding you, don't worry, I'm not going to do anything"

"Why do you put up with me?"

"What ever do you mean by that?"

"You know I don't listen to some of the basic rules and you always find yourself staying in the same room as me so I don't do anything, I don't get why you feel the need to keep me around"

"The cult had many strange teachings, most are accurate or missing information, the only one I'm not sure of is what they said about my patients, explain what they taught you"

"They would teach us that if we were to be sacrificed, the only thing we should do was remain quiet and only speak if given permission to, and we were told if we didn't, we'd be used for whatever we were needed for, then killed"

"That seems like what they'd say, but there is a bit more to it, I pick a job based on how you were to act without knowing who I was, then I act accordingly"

"Then what did you see in me? I was just the quiet one who was known for acting well in the cult but once I was able to sneak out of the building, I was viewed as just trouble"

"Do you truly want to know my reason for picking you as my bride?"

"Yes, I'm not worthy of being anything powerful, why keep me?"

"Because you never tried to be something you knew you weren't, instead of waiting for your 18th birthday expecting to be one of their teachers, you expected to be a sacrifice, and despite the fact you expected it, you still remained as loyal as you could, and believe it or not, that was only half of my reasons"

"Then what are the other reasons?"

"Well, I did want my right hand to be good eye candy"

I began to blush harder and put my head on his chest so he could see, but I just heard him laugh.

"I think we should try to start over, how about we make a deal"

"And that deal would be?"

"Simple, I'll let you walk around the house, since you'd break that rule anyways, plus access to the garden, and I have to keep myself calm before I come back, but you have to let me monitor your health until you don't have any marks on you and its clear your mental health has improved"

"Alright, you have a deal"

Inpu pulled me a bit closer to him and started to fall asleep, so I decided to just snuggle up and fall asleep with him.