Chapter 7 Chapter 7

'I'm trying but I keep falling down

I cry out but nothing comes now

I'm giving my all and I know peace will come

I never wanted to need someone'

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"Ma..ma"

I trembled with Karl in my arms as his eyes looked at tiny child resting in my embrace. But that was not what scared me, the way his jaw clenched and his fists tightened, I knew what he was planning.

"Don't!"

Today was full of surprises.

My eyes immediately rushed towards the voice as Elijah walked inside the shop. By this time I wondered if the lady was hearing what was happening right under her apartment.

I never looked so anxious and relieved looking at Elijah, at the same time. But Elijah immediately rushed towards me as he engulfed me in his arms. Probably this was a bad idea because next I knew, Lucifer was growling like a lion as he ripped Elijah away from us and slammed his body against the broken glass door. I couldn't described the pain he was feeling because all the pieces were piercing his skin.

I screamed terrifyingly as Lucifer stepped towards me.

"That child's not mine!" He growled inhumanely as I looked wide eyed at him. Absolutely Karl wasn't his child. Why was he expecting-

And then realisation drawn upon me. I merely looked up as I joined what was he trying to say. He heard Karl calling me mother, which was normal for me because Karl had been calling me mother since he started to talk and Lucifer now was thinking that Karl was my child.

"You mis-"

Wait! Why was I explaining myself to him? He could thought whatever he wanted. I didn't owe him any explanation. He was no one to me. He never cared. The only thing he cared about was himself.

"Stay away from him." I couldn't be any calm. Suddenly all the traces of past played in my mind like reels and then I came to understand that he never loved me, he loved her, Melissa.

"Who's child is this?!" He growled. His jaw was clenched but I could saw his canines descending, his fists were clenched and his claws were elongating, ready to kill.

Was he going to kill Karl?!

"I said stay away!" Motherly instinct kicked in and I saw Melissa in Lucifer's place, ready to kill my child, my children in my womb. It was this feeling I was not ready to feel. I dreaded this. My surroundings suddenly became dark and Melissa's evil face flashed through my eyes.

Her cruel laugh.

'You're pregnant and it's highly unacceptable to me.'

Her words played in my mind like a bad memory.

"Da..da." Karl cried as I suddenly looked where he was pointing. Elijah's whole body was bleeding as glass was piercing his skin. And then I heard a loud growl as I looked at Lucifer.

He turned towards Elijah and looked between him and Karl before he sped towards Elijah and smashed his head on broken glass.

I screamed as I rushed towards them.

"HOW DARE YOU?! YOU FUCKING TOUCHED HER!" Lucifer yelled as he slammed Elijah on ground before mounting him and punching him mercilessly. Karl cried in my arms as tears flowed through my eyes.

Wait!

Oh my god!

He was misunderstanding everything. He was thinking that Karl was mine and Elijah's child! Oh my god! And that's when I realized how much Elijah's and Karl's eyes resembled. I immediately placed Karl on nearby chair as I ran towards Lucifer.

"Wait! Stop it, please!" I screamed as I tried to yank him off him but his huge body didn't moved an inch. I was afraid if he would kept hitting him like this, he would die.

I tried again but a pair of arms circled around Lucifer's shoulders as someone hoisted him up. But Lucifer snarled as he broke free.

"Listen!" Someone said from behind me and that's when I saw Draven.

He was not one of my favorite person but I was thankful that he saved Elijah. I immediately rushed towards Elijah who was breathing heavily on ground with blood all over him.

"Hey, hey! You okay?" I patted his cheek crying terribly.

"Get away from him!" Lucifer growled but I paid no attention. I knew Draven was holding him.

"Shut up!" I yelled as I looked his way and that's when I saw his eyes, red, bloody red.

"What the fuck did you just say?" He snarled angrily. But I wasn't going to back down, he no longer owned me.

"I said stay the fuck away from him." I gritted as anger bubbled inside me. I know this fearlessness was not my smartness but I suddenly didn't cared.

I waited for him to slam me against the wall and choke me till oxygen left my lungs. I waited for him to end my pathetic excuse of life. I waited for death to come but nothing.

He stood there with raged eyes but there was something else too. He looked at me with harmonious yet sadistic eyes but my valiant anger was still there. I tried not to take a step back as he stepped towards me. His long yet slow steps were terrifying.

I gulped down the lump of saliva looking at his cerulean chilled eyes and for a moment, for just a infinitely small moment, I saw softness.

And it made me question my sanity. Was that for me?

I didn't jumped when he raised his hand and everything stopped for me. I immediately closed my eyes when he raised his hand. I waited for him to hit me but instead I felt his rough hand softly touching my cheek with unknown tenderness that I wanted seven months ago. But this body, this body was traitorous and I couldn't control it.

His touch was everything I felt as in next moment I felt distance between us reducing as we looked into each others eyes. Thousands of emotions, sentiments, crates of feelings I saw in his eyes as he caressed my cheek.... adoringly? His eyes screamed longing ness and it looked that he had missed me all this time. Why did it looked like he was ecstatic by looking at me.

I didn't realised when distance reduced to nothing and his lips gently caressed mine and did I wanted to drown in this feeling?

"I missed you." His voice was hoarse, deep and filled with misery. I tried to said what was he planning, but before I could, he softly placed his lips on mine. His face was so close to mine that I could inhale his spicy dark woody creamy masculine scent with tinge of vanilla and sandalwood, filled my nostrils. He didn't moved for a second, but then he slowly moved his lips, devouring every taste, every whimper, every moan. It was filled with emotions, innocence, not trying to win a battle but seeking union and closeness and the sharing of one breath, one sensation, one timeless and passionate moment. The heat rose in my cheeks.

And then, softness suddenly replaced by hunger and ferociousness as he gently grabbed my face and kissed me harder. I cried into his mouth, moans of pleasure and sadness, his body moved as his arms wrapped around my waist.

Waves of ecstasy collided with the weight of gravity that had me pinned me to the ground and welcomed his tongue.

"You need to understand one thing, Sarah," he said slowly yet dangerously against my lips. I could feel his breath and I hated myself for feeling this way. "You're mine. You seem to think it's still up for discussion-but it's not."

He breathed the words slow, and one at a time, that sentence, those words and letters danced along the curve of my past, awakening every single memory I buried along with feelings for him.

He joined our for heads together as I panted heavily, the side effect of kissing him.

"I'm extremely guilty for what I'm going to do but it's not like you're leaving me any other choice." He said hoarsely looking at me and I didn't get time to think his words as a sharp pain resonated through my head as I felt myself going numb.

Darkness consumed me as I felt his huge arms wrapping around me as he pulled me towards his chest.

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"Well, that went smooth, I guess." Draven mumbled looking down at Sarah's unconscious body as Lucifer picked her up carefully with ease and looked down at her Angelic face.

He breathed out in remorse as he stared down at her. He knew she would never forgive him for this but he was not going to lose her, not again. This time he would do everything in his power to protect her from every harm coming her way.

What about you, who would save her from you?

A voice whispered in back of his mind. And he so badly wanted to ignore the question but it was true.

It was saying that darkness only came when everything else had gone and it suited him well. He himself was darkness, destroying everything in his path. It was not like he was trying to escape his darkness instead he had somehow learned to love himself there but now this was not about him alone.

She was light and in his definition of darkness, it was the absence of light. And darkness couldn't exist with light. Like darkness, his feelings couldn't be explained. For world darkness was nothing but for him it was everything.

He stared down at her face and observed how much she had changed, how much she had suffered.

"What about the child? What do we do about him?" Draven muttered looking at Karl with raised brows.

This seemed to irritate Lucifer more. He scoffed in annoyance looking at child as his eyes flicked red. He was a monster he knew, but he was not going to hurt a child to satisfy his ego.

"AGAIN!"

Lucifer let out a sharp breath as his father hit him so hard in the back of his head that blood spurted from his mouth.

Lucifer let out a shaky breath as he fell onto his knees, coughing up blood.

"GET UP!"

Nora closed her eyes shut the moment she saw Kendrio's foot fly in the air and hit his son across the field.

Lucifer cl it hed his stomach with one hand as he wiped the blood from his mouth with other. His breathing became hazard as he tried to look through his blurred vision.

"DIDN'T YOU HEAR ME?!" Kendrio snarled.

"Kendrio!"

Kendrio paused with his foot in air. He glared at his son as he heard his name called. His eyes drifted towards his wife who was standing near pillars of castle looking tensely at him.

Kendrio let out a frustrated sigh a she dropped his foot and turned his head towards Nora. Kendrio looked at Nora who had few flowers in her hands. Soft blue dress complimented her light skin tone as her soft curls danced with air.

Kendrio looked back at his son who was coughing violently on ground as he breathed heavily.

"Try again," Kendrio ordered. "I'm not happy with what you are doing."

Lucifer took slow breaths as he turned his head towards his father who was walking towards Nora. He caught Nora's look of concern as she smiled looking at his son.

Lucifer could hear arguing between his mother nad father as Nora moved her hands frantically.

"He's our son not your personal punching sack, Kendrio!" Lucifer heard his mother grunting.

"Don't start with me again, Nora. You know how weak he is! Right now he's a spinless weakling! Im trying to show him what he could become." Kendrio shook his head.

"He's just fourteen for God's sake!" Nora snarled.

"I don't fucking care!" Kendrio snapped angrily.

Nora lowered her eyes when she saw look of hopelessness in Kendrio's eyes. She knew nothing would change Kendrio's mind.

Lucifer panicked slightly as his father walked towards him with Nora I front of him.

Nora fell on her knees in front of Lucifer as he saw his father trailing behind her.

"Don't worry. Today's training is over." Nora smiled softly as she tried to stop the urge knock some senses in Kendrios's head.

Kendrio rolled his eyes before mumbling.

"I want you in field first thing in the morning."

With this Kendrio walked towards the castle.

"Are you hungry, my love." Nora smiled down at him.

Lucifer quickly nodded. Nora stood to her feet and held out her hand. "Come, I'll make you something warm while you freshen up. What say?"

Lucifer grabbed her hand as he pulled him up.

"I don't care." Lucifer said angrily.

"D-dont touch her!" Elijah managed to growled his words as Lucifer walked towards the entrance which no longer looked like one.

"Stop me. I dare you." Lucifer snarled.

"I want him in my dungeons by noon." Lucifer ordered as he looked at Draven before he walked out of the place. Draven nodded his head still looking at child and a small smile creped on his face.

"Oh shit!" he grinned as he walked towards the child before scoop in the crying child in his arms before turning towards Elijah.

Elijah's wounds were severe but being a vampire they healed quickly. He noticed the grin on Draven's face as he sighed frustratingly.

Draven lowered his torso so that he was on Elijah's level.

"So, tell me brother. Where's our dear sister?" Draven asked as Karl cried in his arms.

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