Lucifer's Prey (A Demon's Chosen Pet Book 1)

Prequel (Trigger Warning!)

Trigger Warning: Attempted Suicide!

Prequel

She didn't have anything. Pain and loneliness were her constant companions. They whispered to her every minute of every day.

"You are nothing..."

"You have nothing..."

"Your existence means nothing..."

No one needed her, no one wanted her. She felt like she had become a burden to anyone she came in contact with. She could see the pity reflected in their gazes.

"A burden..."

"No one..."

"Alone...you are alone..." The dark thoughts continued to say.

"Why? What's the point?" She asks herself as she looks into the mirror. The point of barely existing through her lonely days is a constant question in the dark recesses of her mind.

"There isn't one..." Her reflection answers back.

So she hid away from world, wallowing in the darkness of her own mind until one day she started to contemplate ending her lonely existence. At the moment she had placed the sharp cold edge of the knife along her wrist she heard someone speak to her.

"For a human whose mind is filled with their own pain your Soul is still bright. Why have you decided to cloak yourself in darkness when you have such a bright soul, so bright that it has cast shadows over your life."

"No one has ever wanted me, needed me. Everything hurts. I just want everything to end, this pain and the longing for something more. Something that I will never have." She whispers to the voice not yet realizing that the voice is outside of herself.

"Hmmm...You humans are interesting. If you want to throw your life away so much why don't you give it to me?"

The knife that had been poised to run across her wrist drops as she looks up into fathomless red eyes in a beautiful face that spoke of a time long lost. His gaze spoke of centuries and it made her bones hurt thinking of the weight of those years. This man wasn't human something inside her knew immediately that he was something other.

He gives her a smile but it is a cruel smile, filled an underlying darkness that makes my very soul quake. It's predatory but there is something, an emotion that is beyond her depth of understanding.

"What will you do? Stay here in this world where you don't belong, where there isn't anyone who wants you. Or will you come with me? Will you give it to me? That pure soul that cries out for someone to own it. I can be that someone." His cool finger traces down the length of her jaw and a trail of fire follows its path.

"I..." She can feel the tendrils of darkness reaching out from this man as he sought to envelop her soul. That feeling he spoke of, the need to be owned grows. The knife clatters to the ground as she reaches out for the only person who had offered her something beyond the endless solitude.

"Take me away. I'm yours." The dark tendrils tighten around her claiming her very essence.

"As you wish. I am Lucifer Morningstar and from this moment until the end of eternity you belong to me." Darkness is all she knows as the world spins away from her and she collapses into the arms of the man that will own her for the rest of eternity.