Flame Inside ✿ Damien and Matthew

Chapter 13

(Trigger Warning: Suicide, implied torture and rape)

"Hello, Diana." Thalia stated.

"Hello, dear." She replies with a smirk.

"What do you want? If you want Damien, he doesn't want to leave with you, so leave him alone." Thalia stood up and stared at the succubus in front of her.

"Oh, I will. I don't care enough for the bastard son to try and take him away. I just... want you to know exactly what you have."

"What are you talking about?" Diana chuckled at her question, causing Thalia to raise a brow at her.

"Did Damien tell you about what he lived through?"

"He showed me when he left." It was true, he showed her last week. "He met with my friend's–"

"No, no, not that. Before that. Did he show you anything before that?"

"Well, he was scorned by the Demon Lord."

"...He didn't show you everything, did he?"

"Why would he need to? He showed me what he needed to."

"I don't need to show her anything else." Thalia turned to see Damien beside her, glaring at Diana coldly. Thalia felt dark shivers run down her spine as she stared at him.

Diana hummed in a sort of twisted glee, "Damien. Right on cue. I was just about to show her why you hate your life and why you have a human fetish."

"You will not show her anything."

"Oh, I won't? Funny. I don't believe you get to tell me what to do, bastard son."

Before Damien could leap at her throat, Diana snapped her fingers, suddenly making the area around them spin. Thalia quickly grabbed onto Damien, who held her as her surroundings began to change to the demon castle

Thalia looked around, feeling unable to move from Damien's embrace out of dizziness. She looked to Diana, who was leaning on a pillar on the far side of the room with a smirk. However, her focus gathered on a pair of demons, one of them being the demon servant that was with the Demon Lord, carrying sheets and books across the room.

"Damn that woman, ordering us around." the demon servant complains, "I bet she thinks she's all high and mighty just because she bore that bastard son. Well, she's no queen. She's a simple harem girl. She'll never be queen. The Demon Lord reminds her that every bloody night. You'd think she'd let it sink in." The snort that erupted from the servant's nose disgusted her to no end.

How vile was this creature?! Thalia wondered with a scowl on her face.

"And about that boy. What do the other noble sons think about him?! They treat him like an equal!" The demon servant laughs almost mockingly, "He's no noble son and he will never be. He's a bastard child that doesn't know his place. Just like his bitch mother."

The second servant shushes the first before exclaiming, "You know he can read minds from a mile away!"

"Then let him read mine! I don't care! That boy is a monstrosity never meant to be born!"

Thalia couldn't help but let out a low growl at the demon and Damien gasps as her body begins radiating heat from her anger. "Calm down." He whispers in her ear and she takes a deep breath, calming herself as she looks back at the scene in front of her.

The first servant cleared his throat at the sight of demon Damien, who was standing nearby with an almost dead-cold look on his face. "Ah. You." the servant states.