Chapter 9 Chapter 9

'Three little birds sat on my window,

And they told me I don't need to worry..'

Enjoy.???

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Guards quickly pulled Victoria off Draven as she kicked in their holds. Being royal guards, their strength was unbreakable and Victoria felt anger washed over her as they dragged her away from Draven, who was panting on the porcelain marble floor of Lucifer's castle.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH! WHERE IS MY CHILD?!" She yelled as she was dragged towards cellars. Lucifer watched with amused face as he leaned against one of the pillars with arms crossed over this toned and muscular chest. His dark hairs were ruffled and his ocean blue eyes shinned with amusement.

"You could've stopped her." Draven muttered wiping away blood seeping through his nose while glaring at Lucifer.

Lucifer tilted his head slightly.

"I was rather enjoying the show."

"This is the bloody second time in one day I got broken nose!" Draven scoffed as the sleeves of his fresh white shirt soaked with blood. He placed his hands on marbled floor and with a little push, he got up and walked towards where Lucifer was.

"You're a shitty friend." Draven scoffed feeling little disappointed in why Lucifer didn't helped him.

"You want me to call Victoria back here? She definitely would be able to clarify who is shitty and who isn't." Draven sensed a hint of annoyance in Lucifer's words. He knew very well, Lucifer would definitely fulfill his promise. And he didn't wanted Victoria to beat shit out of him. It wasn't like that he was afraid but he definitely wasn't in mood to get his ass beaten.

"Whatever." Draven rolled his eyes and walked past Lucifer before stopping as he reached the steps leading to dungeons.

"She alright?" Draven asked turning around when he sensed Lucifer walking his way.

"She'll be fine after she rests." Lucifer said as he walked ahead of Draven with him trailing behind me. They walked down the stairs, headed towards cellars.

"You sure she won't try to escape again?" Draven asked.

"She won't. I'll make sure of that." Lucifer said.

"Lucifer," Draven said turning to him seriously. "I have known you since we were children. We have fought alongside each other and against each other. Whatever happened in past I don't want it to ruin our future alliance. And as a friend, I would suggest you to go easy on her. She is not Melissa. And tell her what you feel about her before it gets too late-"

"I don't love her!" Lucifer said quickly.

Draven looked at him in disbelief.

"How?!" He shook his head in wariness. "You kept her safe all her life without her knowing anything. You think I don't know why you marked her so sudden!" Draven's voice become more stern and loud with passing word. Lucifer looked at Draven with narrowed eyes and stern look.

Draven took Lucifer's silence as cue to continue.

"She had your blood in her system when I kidnapped her....you knew I would come for her. You already had your suspicion about Aphrodite that's why you didn't include her in any of your plans, ain't I right?" Draven snarled but like earlier Lucifer's face didn't revealed his true emotions except stoic expressions.

"All this hustle only to save her. You loved her since the moment you laid your eyes on her but your way of showing it was merciless. Accept your feelings Lucifer before its too late. And trust me that will do you no good." This was all Draven was able to said as Lucifer slammed him against the nearest wall with his claws wrapped around his throat.

"It was a nice little speech but as you see I stopped trusting you long ago!" Lucifer growled as he threw him on the ground as Draven panted for air.

"She's mine. It doesn't matter if I love her or not, she'll always be mine!" Lucifer growled as he kicked Draven resulting him coughing violently. Draven looked up as Lucifer's eyes flicked red just for a second as he stepped over this body before leaving him all panting on floor.

Sarah's p.o.v

I opened my eyes again. Sleep was nowhere near me. All my thoughts were consumed by him and his exertions. I wondered why he asked for my permission before doing what he could do so easily by pinning me against my will. If he wanted he could had raped me without ounce of mercy, like he did in the past, but he didn't did that.

Why?

For once, he respected my decision. I wondered if it was one of his game or was he really being generous enough to leave me. And to my utter surprise, the door wasn't locked. I wanted to stepped out of this room but I didn't had enough courage to do that. I wanted to know if Elijah and Karl were alright. But in this chaos I completely forgot about them.

Where they would be?

What if Victoria was looking for us?

Did she knew we were captured by Lucifer?

I turned to my side when a thought entered my mind.

Draven said Elijah was in dungeons. What if Lucifer had harmed him in any way? What if he was planning to do same with Karl?!

No!

I quickly pushed the covers off me and walked towards the door. Before opening it and stepping outside, I rushed towards the stairs. It had been seven months but I still knew which way led to where. I crossed long hallways near the garden and suddenly halted when my eyes landed on wall adjacent to it.

Seven months ago when I ran from Falcon when he apologized, I saw picture of Melissa on this wall. But now this wall was empty and had only portraits of his ancestors on there.

Did he really removed that for me?

I wished I knew.

I shook these random thoughts before running towards the far end. There were guards but neither of them had audacity to stop me. Maybe this was one of Lucifer's command too. These guards were huge and bullied with swords dangerously from their waists. Heavy shinning metal armor was clinging to their rock hard bodies. And metal helmet was covering their heads. Neither one of them.tried to look or stop me.

For which I was grateful.

I slowed my pace when cream walls turned rusty and old. My breathing seemed to be quickened when I realised how horrible memories these walls held. No matter how much time passed, I would always be afraid to go anywhere near these cellars again. But now this was not about me, this was about two very important souls in my life.

I heard grunting as I neared far end of cellars and looked here and there when I heard another groan. This was coming from somewhere down-

Wait! Was there more cellars downstairs?!

I quickly opened the door at far end when my eyes widened in shock. There were flight of stairs leading down. And I knew Lucifer was keeping Elijah in there.

I didn't wasted another moment as I immediately dashed down the stairs. Oh wait! I realised I wasn't even wearing any slippers.

I looked down when I reached last step.

The scene in front of me was utterly confusing and shocking. I was petrified and little part of me was so ecstatic that I could describe the feeling.

Draven was kneeling the ground with his hands on either side of his head as he spit the saliva with his blood on the ground. His hair looked disheveled and his clothes looked dusty. His face had few scratches and his nose was bleeding.

I didn't moved an inch instead kept looking at him.

"Hello, beautiful," he said and I rolled my eyes. Of course he knew I was here, for gods sake, he was a vampire. He might had sensed my presence here. I sighed before walking towards him with slowly and cautious steps.

"What happened?"

I asked, it was not like I cared. I didn't but I wanted to know who he had pissed now. But somewhere deep down I knew who.

"Was it Lucifer?" I asked again when he didn't answered. He snickered before coughing blood.

"You know him too well." He mumbled. Resting his hands on his knees, he got up and wiped the blood from his nose with his sleeves. There were blood dots already present there and it looked like he had previously wiped blood.

"Where is he?" I asked. I knew he might be here or in cellars with Elijah. And with Draven here with me, I knew he would definitely try to stop me.

"Why care so much for my brother?" Draven asked before looking down at me with his piercings green eyes.

"Maybe because your brother isn't a complete asshole like you. Or...he's more sensible one." I gave him what he wanted to hear. Elijah never harmed me in any way. Despite of fact that Draven had hurted me many times.

"This much attachment towards him will make him pay the price with his death. You know how Lucifer is about his possessions, don't you?" He raised his brow before folding his arms across his chest.

"Why do you care? It's not like you want him to live or anything. You yourself hate him as much as he hates you." Elijah never told me anything about his past and I never forced him to but the anger and fire his eyes burned with whenever he saw Draven told me all the story. It looked like Elijah didn't liked Draven.

"I don't care. But I care about my sister. Victoria and Elijah are twins, they shares bond that is inseparable and if anything happens to Elijah, she'll break down. And that's the last thing I want."

"If you care so much about her than why you killed father of her child. Huh? Didn't you think about her heart when you ripped Falcon into shreads." I didn't knew why was I bringing this all but I wanted to know.

His face paled for a second and his eyes widened. It looked like he wasn't expecting me to say something like this. His muscles tensed and muscle in his jaw twitched.

"I never meant to kill him." His words were so shallow and almost unhearable.

"But you did!" My voice raised abruptly. I didn't wanted to shout but hatred and rage burning inside me said otherwise. He didn't even deserved to talk to me after what he had done. He not only destroyed me but also a child who would never see his father, who would never know who his father was, and what would he feel when he would know that his uncle killed his father, for what?!, for some misunderstanding created by lying, maupilative, cunning witch. Falcon wasn't supposed to die! He deserved to live! He deserved to hold his child in his arms!

Not a single word. He didn't even cared to clarify himself. His mouth was sealed by all the evil deed he had committed.

"I don't even know what you're doing here in first place. I don't even care if Lucifer has forgiven you for your betrayal or not. In all this time I have forcefully spend with him, I have come to know how much I affect him, how much of a obsession I have become for him and even if I'm only his toy, I don't understand why he is letting you stay after knowing that you tried to rape me." I gritted with anger. It was like rage was engulfing me wholly. I hadn't forget anything he had done or what Lucifer had done, I was just trying to keep these things at back of my head. And the point of saying all these things was to let him know how much he disgusted me.

I sighed before closing my lids.

Breathe.

Calm down.

Elijah's your main priority.

With this though I opened my eyes. I tried hard to ignore Draven. His head was low with shame or whatsoever.

I didn't even spare him second glance and rushed towards the end of the hallway. I was so angry and frustrated. Draven had opened the wounds I was trying so hard to heal. My all attempts to forget horrible things was slowly going in vain. I wanted to blame myself for that-

"S-stop!" I halted in my steps when I heard loud scream from other end. I knew that voice, it was Elijah's. Something snapped in me and I made a run for the door.

With unknown strength I pushed opened the cellar door. Cold air hit my face when dark and rusty old cellar came into view. But what petrified me the most was Elijah. He was dangerously from ceiling with his legs towards ceiling and his hands tied behind his back and drops of blood were trickling down his face.

"What are you doing here?!" I jumped when Lucifer's deep voice entered my ears. I should had made a run for hills but my feet refused to move. My body was paralyzed and my breathing was uneven.

Don't look at him! Don't look at him!

I looked. I did what I shouldn't had.

His eyes were ruby colored and his veins were threatening to ripped through his skin. I knew that look, it was meant to kill. He would killed him! My heart clenched thinking about outcomes.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOUD DOING HERE?" He gritted his teeth. His fists balled and his jaw twitched.

"Leave him." I said almost I audibly. The lump of saliva become so hard to swallow. He closed his eyes for a second and it looked like he was trying to calm himself. When he opened his eyes, red was replaced with blue and veins were gone.

"Go back." He ordered with clenched fists. Elijah was growling and grunting in pain. I wondered how much Lucifer had tortured him.

"Not before you leave him." My words seemed to ignite his rage as he took a threatening step in my direction. I didn't move back but instead welcomed him with my unknown courage.

"I. SAID. GET. BACK." Every word had a hidden warning. He wanted me to go back.

"And I said leave him." Hello, line! I crossed you!

Next instant his arms were wrapped around me and I was slammed mercilessly against the hard wall. I wasn't shocked. Slamming me against the wall was his hobby that I wasn't in love with.

"Move your ass out of cellars before I do something that I won't regret!" He nearly growl an animalistic growl. I breathed out a sharp breath before calming my racing heart. His face was so close that I could almost feel his hot breath on my face and his arms were so tightly wrapped around me that I could feel the muscles of his rock hard chest against mine.

I needed to stop him from doing something that would haunt me forever. I didn't wanted him to hurt Elijah. And but the looks Elijah was looking, I somehow knew he had lost so much blood.

"Let him go, please." I pleaded looking at him with pleasing eyes and wobble lips. He took a sharp breath in before pulling hard. His jaw twitched and he pulled me more closer.

"I'll fucking kill him-"

I sealed his lips with mine, refusing to let him come.plete. I must had taken him by surprise because his arms instinctively loosened for a second and I felt his whole body tense. I was surprised too, I didn't believe I kissed him! It was very first time I initiate the kiss but I had to do that to keep his mind from killing Elijah.

A groan left his throat when his surprise turn into passion and his arms tightened around me and almost hoisted me up with my feet almost dangling. My eyes widened when I felt him taking control and deepening the kiss. It felt like he was trying to swallow me whole. I didn't minded as long as this would keep him away from Elijah.

My arms involuntary circled around his neck when I tried to fight for control but Lucifer was always a control freak. He positioned his hand on back of my head and pulled my neck back before smashing his lips again.

"I don't know what game you're trying to play," he mumbled against my lips as I breathed out heavily. "But I'll play along."

With this his lips again swallowed my squeals.

Next moment, I felt wind kissing me and I was dropped on the soft mattresses. We were back into the room with him towering above me. His lips didn't seemed to leave mine as he pushed his tongue eagerly inside.

"Let me fuck you!" He groaned against my lips as he descended his hands south and tugged down the elastic of my panties.

Was he asking for permission?!

Another moan left his mouth as his lips descended down my neck licking in process. My toes curled with unknown pleasure. This wasn't forced but willing. He had already used me thousands times and giving into him again didn't bothered me anymore. At least, Elijah would be safe for now.

"I will but," I said as he pulled away before looking down at me with raised brow. I tried to move away but his arms hindered my attentions.

"You'll leave Elijah." He gritted and pulled away. My breathing quickened. What if he refused to leave him and kill him?

I quickly grabbed his arm and pulled him towards me. This took him by surprise and he looked wide eyed at me for a second and surprise was vanished as soon as it came.

"I'll be yours for tonight but you'll grant my wish." I mumbled tracing his lips with my fingers. He kept looking at me with those intense, list filled eyes that wanted nothing more than to screw me.

"You'll always be mine," he said grabbing my wrist, stopping my movements, and locked my fingers making me gasp.

"And for your wish...I'll think about it." He said before leaning down and swallowing my words. I felt his hands tugging down the straps of my dress and in no time I was naked. His lips did their magic on my collar bone and neck as I writhed under him.

My let him pull down my panties as his lips kissed every curve and valley. His one hand ws pinning my wrists down and his other was tracing mine. My eyes rolled back as his tongue hit the gentle spot tight above my heaven.

It was first time I was willingly giving myself to him and this would most likely to be last. Once Elijah would be out of those cellars, I was planning to elop.

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