Alpha Nocturne's Contracted Mate

Chapter 285 Live to Serve

As soon as Steve materialized in the room and locked eyes with Lexi, her l*ips curled up at the sides

into a mischievous grin.

“Well hello there you little ray of sunshine,” she winked, “How’s life?”

“Eternal.” Steve answered with a face like stone, no flicker of emotion in his eyes as he turned to

regard Lord Brarthroroz with the same deadpan expression, “You called?”

Lord Brarthroroz ignored Lexi’s sniggers and got straight to business. “I need to transport some of our

forces here, cambion’s and their h*andlers mainly,” Lord Brathroroz explained, “A few mimic’s too.

There may be more required at a later date, but we’ll meet that when we come to it.”

“I live to serve.” Steve bowed slightly as the corners of his mouth twitched.

“I can’t decide whether or not there was the hint of sarcasm in there Steve,” Lord Brarthroroz rumbled

as he inspected his face carefully for any tell tale signs.

“Sarcasm? Against the Daemon Lord himself? Who would possibly dare…” Steve answered quick as a

flash and Lexi snorted as her father watched him with a mixture of mild surprise and faint amusement.

“I do believe he’s finally understood it.” Lexi snorted as she clapped Steve on the back, causing a slight

cloud of dust to drift off him as whatever lay under his gown rattled slightly.

“All the time that your presence is forced upon me, it’s a wonder it hasn’t happened sooner.” Steve

continued dryly as he removed Lexi’s h*and from his shoulder with a look of distaste and raised his

h*ands towards the far corner of the room.

He paused, and looked towards Lord Brarthroroz warily.

“You did tell them they were being pulled here first, this time, didn’t you?” He asked as his glowing orbs

narrowed to what looked like slits.

“Would I forget?!” Lord Brathroroz answered in mock indignation as an audible sigh could be heard

from beneath Steve’s cowl.

“It wouldn’t be the first time… my lord.” He answered as he turned back to the corner of the room and

continued his work, mumbling under his breath.

Lexi and her father shared a grin and a wink as the swirling portal bloomed into life and various figures

began being pulled through the portal and into the room before them.

Lexi made her way to the door and popped her head outside, checking the floor was entirely clear

before opening the door wide, and directing them to the room beyond once they had shifted to their

human forms.

The Succubi and Incubi came first, sashaying past Lexi and eying her appreciatively, as she did her

best not to make eye contact with any of them. The last thing she wanted to do was lead any of them

on with an inadvertent glance that might show her subtle appreciation of their sculpted forms.

She had made that mistake once before and while enjoyable, she hadn’t been able to walk properly for

days afterwards.

“Is that all of them?” She asked as she counted twenty four in total and looked to her father expectantly.

He nodded and turned to Steve who stood fiddling with his robe sleeves. “Are you ready for the Mimics

and Cambion’s now?” he asked in a bored tone.

“Why, do you have something better to do?” Lord Brarthroroz asked with the barest of smirks.

Steve didn’t answer and turned back to the portal with a slight huff, concentrating immediately on the

task remaining.

Six mimics oozed through the portal as Lexi repressed a shudder at their featureless, slime like figures

that seemed to squelch across the floor towards her.

“You might want to change to something that the shifters won’t find as… disturbing.” She suggested as

kindly as she could as they slithered past.

A flurry of ripples across the surface of their being answered her and Lexi shifted uncomfortably on the

spot, looking to her father for support and he smiled benignly at her.

“They know Lexi, don’t worry. These are’t the same Mimic’s as the undeveloped ones that scavenge

here. They’ve eaten enough and experienced enough to be as intelligent as you or I. They just prefer

this form.”

Lexi turned back to watch the pulsating masses of fluid begin to form their bodies into distinctly human

looking forms with various features, melding their clothes to match the style of the Dark Magick users

that they had encountered so far.

She had to admit that mimics really were incredibly talented when it came to this, and the fact that they

were now conversing casually with the transformed daemons alongside them in clear and cohesive

speech astounded her.

“Do they speak other languages too?” she asked absentmindedly as she turned to her father again and

froze, as her eyes landed on the hulking form of the Cambion that had stepped through the portal.

Their eyes locked and Lexi felt her heart in her mouth as she gazed upon its towering frame.

She had never met a Cambion before and whilst she knew that they were the product of daemons of

lust and desire, and some of the more dangerous and feral daemon’s that inhabited her father’s world,

she hadn’t quite been prepared for the effortless beauty and the magnetic charisma that drew you to it

like a moth to flame.

“HANDLERS!” Lord Brarthroroz roared as he suddenly increased his size to match that of the

cambion’s and brought his h*and down violently across the back of it’s neck, gripping it firmly and

forcing its face to the ground, the floor shaking as it landed with an earth shaking thud.

“She is off limits, Cambion. She is my daughter and you will NOT t*ouch her. Do I make myself clear?”

Lord Brarthroroz hissed as he held the writhing cambion on the floor as it hissed and roared in fury at

being denied its desired prize.

Lexi had flattened herself against the wall, now staring down at this beautiful creature as her father held

it in place and her heart tugged violently but as soon as she managed to drag her eyes from its gaze

and locked eyes with her father’s furious eyes, the hold of the cambion was broken.

“I-I’m sorry Papa…” Lexi stammered , although she wasn’t quite sure what she was sorry for. as her gut

twisted in what felt like guilt.

“It is not your fault. This is why I will not allow these to roam freely in my realm, nor in this one.” Lord

Brarthroroz said, not unkindly, “Perhaps it is better that you wait upstairs with the rest of the shifters

while we get these subdued.”

Lexi nodded numbly and backed out of the room clumsily, watching the h*andlers rush forward and

begin their work on subduing the Cambion, before she tore her eyes away and forced her unwilling feet

to propel her forwards and up the stairs to where her mates waited patiently.