Hell's Consort

Newest Chapter for Highest Tier (July 2022)

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Archdemon Empress Luna

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"I'm not your woman." Luna replied with gritted teeth, her fingers twitching from the urge to choke Apollyon's throat.

She never expected that her mate would insult her like this the way the previous Vampire King would.

That particular bastard had no respect for women.

"I know that you don't want me to see your face, either. Did you come here to kill me? Are you an assassin?"

Now, he thought she was an assassin just because she was all covered up?

She shook her head. "No."

'--but if you don't keep your mouth shut at the right time, Apollyon, I probably would.' She thought.

"I'll let this slide as well. Perhaps, you aren't that confident with how you look." He tilted his head and studied slitted eyes. "Of course, any woman would feel insecure in the presence of someone as great as me."

Luna was too stunned to speak.

"Did you just imply that... I'm ugly, Your Highness?"

This bastard.

How dare he call his own mate ugly?

He wouldn't have planted his seed inside her if he thought her unbearable.

Luna rubbed a hand across her face and exhaled a heavy sigh.

"How frustrating." She muttered.

She would make sure he would pay for these statements once he recognized her as his mate.

"I should go."

"Don't. If you had no intention of coming closer, I might as well flirt with you some more."

Her beloved had proved himself to be witty, flirtatious and romantic but he had also showed how he can also be short-tempered and impetuous.

She knew that the Vampire King just told her a bald-faced lie to get her to raise her skirts.

Yet, she still wouldn't give up on him because she knew deep in her heart that he could still be healed.

"If you're flirting, you're doing it so horribly, Your Highness. You have done nothing but insult me since I entered the room."

"I wanted you to respond and I knew damn well that I have succeeded. Talk to me and answer my questions or else..." Prussian blue eyes met hers, glowing brightly. "I will feel insulted."

Luna's gaze fell on his palm rubbing against the blanket over his muscled thigh in a heroic effort to soothe himself somehow and keep his hands to himself.

Everything must have appeared like a shock to him because he had no idea what was going on or it could also be that he was already feeling the effects of animalistic burning inside of him, increasing his primal need for procreation.

She had no idea if her husband was aware of this but ever since she entered his vicinity, he couldn't seem to stop sizing her up.

Luna's scowl never left his handsome face as she walked towards the nearby table to pull a chair.

She twisted its back rest roughly before she plopped her ass on the seat, crossed her legs and folded her arms over her chest.

She was showing him that he had his full attention this time.

"Who are you, really? You don't respect your King's order. And you're not acting submissive for a servant. i'm not familiar with all the women from my Consortium. Are you a concubine that Cederic had picked that I had knowledge of?" His Adam's apple bobbed up and down his throat as he scanned her again from head to toe. "You should know that the love I can give to my concubines are infinite."

"You might not be aware of it yet but there is no domestic tranquility between me and your concubines." She replied in a low voice.

Luna forgot that the Vampire King used to abuse his power on unsuspecting women.

She couldn't believe that she would encounter who he used to be in the past in this present moment.

Her words must have cut through the core because it had perfectly reflected in his expression for a few seconds before it turned back into that inscrutable mask he always wore in front of an enemy.

"I changed my mind, then. I would never make a woman like you my concubine if you couldn't even follow the absolute rules I have set for them."

Where did Apollyon get the audacity to speak to his wife like this?

Did he really have no idea who she was right now and the children that Luna just gave birth to?

Before she knew it, Luna got up from her chair, stomped her feet towards his bedside and slapped him in the face.

The quick and sharp sound was similar to the cracking of a whip.

"Is this how you are going to act the instant you wake up, Apollyon? Have you no consideration of what I might possibly feel for the past several months where I don't know what's wrong with you?" Her chest had risen and fallen as she sucked in more air to breathe and her outrage had surged even more. "What had been done to you in the Underworld? Did a divine being steal all your memories of me? You should be the one answering my questions after sleeping in this tower for a year!"

Sparks of lightning seemed to crackle as they watched each other, wide-eyed.

Both of them were taken aback.

"How dare you slap a Vampire King, woman?" His voice had deepened in anger as he covered her stinging handprints on his cheekbone.

Luna had paused to process everything that happened and she could hardly believe what she had just done: slapping her own husband, who was also a powerful Archdemon fledgling, in the face.

She couldn't believe that she would lose control of herself in argument with Apollyon that she might as well have injured herself from the guilt and shame.

Yes, it was impulsive to slap him so hard and it was even more stupid of her to think that it would wake him up and send him back to the present where he truly belonged.

Why else couldn't he remember her, then?

Luna suddenly heard rattling of chains before it shattered into pieces.