Two months later…

  {Alastor}

  "I see that your new mate is adjusting. It's happening slowly but she's adjusting," Karma said.

  I didn't say anything in response. I just sat down on the edge of the bed staring at Jenny. Now that I got a closer look at her she was beautiful.

  I finally looked up at Karma and frowned. "Why? Because I know you had something to do with this!"

  She smirked. "Of course I did! Why are you not happy with your new mate?"

  I shook my head. "No that's not it. I'm happy with my mate. And as of now she has a strong appetite for sex. Which is a good thing. But does she need an old man like me as a mate?"

  Karma chuckled and shook her head. "I talked to the High Ruler about this because you know only she can assign a God a mate. And since you're Satan's second in command you're pretty much in God status just like Satan is. I also did it because I was bored. I figured that if you had a new mate it might shake things up a bit."

  I blinked and gave her a look of disbelief. "You're kidding right? You got me a new mate because you were bored? Am I not spending enough time with you? If that's the case I'll make more time then I-"

  "Nope, that's not why I'm bored, Alastor," Karma said. "You're spending plenty of time with me and I'm happy about that. But there's nothing eventful that's been going on lately. Other than what's been happening with Princess Victoria. The High Ruler seems to be heavily invested in her at the moment. And all I can do is sit on the sidelines and watch. At least now that you have a new mate, I can talk to her. I'm glad I can help her. She's going to need to know all about becoming a Princess just like Princess Victoria will be learning about how to become a Queen."

  I did a facepalm and groaned, "You are something Karma."

  She chuckled, "Thank you for the compliment."

  I groaned again, "You're welcome."

  Jenny stirred and opened her eyes. "Alastor?"

  "I'm here baby. How are you feeling?" I asked.

  She smiled. "I'm feeling great. A little sore from last night but other than that great."

  I felt my face heat up and Karma burst into laughter. "Oh yeah my dear, Alastor's really good bed."

  Jenny looked at Karma and frowned. "Who's she?"

  "Jenny, meet Karma, my seventh wife and you'll be my eighth wife when the time comes," I said.

  She made a face that told me that she didn't like the sound of what she just heard. "You have seven wives already? That's not fair! First my sister has more than one boyfriend and a girlfriend on top of that, now the guy I'm with has more than one wife!"

  "Come on, don't be too upset. It's a normal thing in this world," Karma said.

  Jenny tilted her head. "In this world? What do you mean?"

  "Have you ever heard tales about demons and whatnot?" Karma asked.

  Jenny nodded. "Yes. But that's just it. They're stories that were meant to be told around the campfire to scare little kids to keep them in line."

  Karma snorted. "Well, I hate to break it to you but those tales are not just tales. They're real stories about ancient demons. Ever heard of the one about Alastor?"

  "No, that one I haven't heard…" Jenny paused. "Wait, you mean to tell me that my new boyfriend is a demon?"

  "Yup! And we're in Hell! The place that your sister Princess Victoria should've grown up in. But don't worry once she gets finished with her assignment on Earth she'll come back here and complete her training," Karma said.

  "Yes my dear, I am a demon and to be more correct, I am one the Princes of Darkness, Satan's second in command and the future uncle to the future Queen of Hell, Prince Alastor!" I said proudly while puffing out my chest.

  Karma rolled her eyes. "Seriously? You could leave off the future uncle bit. Princess Victoria and Prince Walter haven't even gone through with their marking ceremony yet! Geez!"

  "Marking ceremony?" Jenny asked.

  Karma smiled. "You my dear, have a lot to learn about this world! Wait until you get your demon form!"

  Jenny raised an eyebrow. "My demon form?"

  I gave Karma a sideways look. "Karma, one thing at a time okay?"

  I looked down when the brooch on my suit jacket started glowing. "Excuse me, I need to take this call."

  I stepped outside and pressed the button on my brooch. Satan's face appeared in front of me on a holographic screen.

  "Yes, Your Majesty?" I said.

  Satan sighed, "Victoria seems to be doing better. She just woke up after the doctors took her out of her coma. She's stopped half-shifting at least."

  I paused. "Okay? That's a good thing right?"

  "Yeah but she's having the same trouble I had when my powers awakened," Satan said. "She's having trouble controlling her powers especially when she's angry."

  I chuckled. "Let me guess, she's causing power outages?"

  Satan nodded and I laughed. I've known Satan ever since I was a kid. He always had issues controlling his powers until he turned Victoria's age. Every time he got angry there would be a small power outage and once he calmed down the lights would come back on and order would be restored. Sometimes he would accidentally break lightbulbs when the power outages would happen. I think that's where the whole overused movie trope of lightbulbs breaking whenever a demon is around came from?

  I just know that every time Satan was summoned to Earth light bulbs would break and a small power outage would happen.

  "And light bulbs are breaking?" I laughed.

  "Yep, but at least it's only isolated in her room at the hospital. Good thing is she'll be released from the hospital tomorrow if all goes well and she'll finish her recovery at home," Satan said.

  "Well that's good news!" I said.

  "How's your new mate doing?" Satan asked, changing the subject.

  "She's doing fine and she just found out that demons are real thanks to Karma," I said, rolling my eyes. "That's fine. I mean I was going to tell her soon anyway. Apparently Karma thought it was a good idea to ask the High Ruler to give me a new mate because she was bored."

  Satan burst into a fit of laughter about that. When he composed himself he said, "Honestly, I don't think having a young mate is a bad thing. Why is there something wrong with her?"

  I shook my head. "No, there's nothing wrong with her. She's perfect for me, I just find it a little weird that I got a mate so young in my old age."

  "Seriously?" Satan said. "Nonsense! You have a mate, a young mate at that, you should feel honored by it. Even if it happened because one of your wives was bored."

  "The interesting part is that she's Victoria's sister!" I said. "On the bright side, at least she doesn't have to be apart from Victoria as much."

  Satan nodded. "Oh yeah, I think she'll enjoy that one. Once things are settled that is. Make sure that she attends the marking ceremony and the wedding will be a week after that."

  "Then we deal with Delilah after the wedding?" I asked.

  "Yup! Honestly, I can't wait to see how she's going to react to her husband's betrayal," Satan said.

  I nodded in agreement. "This is going to be fun to see."

  True I couldn't wait for Victoria to finally have her revenge on that evil woman. In the meantime I had a young mate to educate on what goes on in the supernatural world.

  ***

  {Victoria}

  "Are you kidding me! This has to be a joke! Another one? Seriously?" I said.

  Ever since I got home from the hospital I've been getting these weird letters from Delilah. She sounds so unhinged I think she has lost her damn mind!

  The letters went like this:

  Don Victoria,

  I know I will never gain your forgiveness. I respect that now but let me prove it to you that I can spend the rest of my life serving you until the end of your days. I will be your loyal servant and I'll do whatever you want me to do. Just let me be by your side like everyone else is.

  I know I failed you as a mother when I had that title. But I won't fail you as a servant. Please let me serve you.

  Sincerely,

  Delilah

  I looked up at Ben who was smirking at me as I read the letter. I rolled my eyes. "You're having waaay too much fun with this!"

  I insisted on going back to work even though Satan was against it. I convinced him that since I'd be sitting in my office looking at paperwork all day he shouldn't be worried. That's when the letters started coming and the letters weren't just from Delilah. They were my secret not so secret admirers. They somehow found out that I had more than one boyfriend and a girlfriend on top of that and wanted to go out with me.

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  I also kept getting letters from people that wanted to be my servants. I have yet to put a notice that I'm hiring because I'm not hiring anyone at the moment. Ben told me a couple of those letters are from other demons wanting to pledge their loyalty to the Royals.

  But the letters from Delilah are some of the creepiest letters I've ever received! Oh sure this one seems innocent enough but the fact that a woman who hated my guts now wants to serve me is just plain creepy.

  Even Cody who was chilling out on the ground next the desk could sense my distress. Although he didn't know what my distress was about, he went up to me as I sat down on the couch in the office and laid his head on my lap. I gently petted his head even though it didn't do much to ease my distress.

  "So what do you want to do about her? You said I could show her my betrayal a month before the wedding," Ben said.

  "Do you have the divorce papers ready?" I asked.

  He nodded. "Yup. The only thing they need is Delilah's signature. And if she refuses to sign… Well I won't let that happen because I'll make sure that she signs it."

  "Good. We'll take care of this once and for all, tomorrow," I said. "Tell her that I need to see her in my office at 2pm tomorrow and you come here at 10am. That way we'll have plenty of time to set the stage."

  He raised an eyebrow. "Set the stage? What do you mean by that?"

  I gave him a mischievous smile. "You'll find out tomorrow."

  ***

  The next day Ben came to my office right on time. He seemed eager to get rid of Delilah. He had already met with his lawyer and had the divorce papers along with who gets what. He opted to have Delilah get the house because he would be moving in with me and my other mates. He had no idea if Delilah noticed that over the last two months when I was in the hospital that he was slowly packing his stuff and sending it over to my house.

  Knowing Delilah, she probably didn't notice because of being so self absorbed in her own feelings and her own situation to care about how Ben was doing. From what I saw, over the years she didn't care at all about what her partners were doing. It was always about her and only her. Even with her letters begging me to become my servant, she didn't care about how I felt.

  Well today I'm putting an end to her being in my life for good. I have no idea what's going to happen to her after this and I really don't care.

  When Ben arrived at my office I closed the door. I pulled him into my arms and kissed him. After he kissed me he pulled back and smiled. "Is this what you meant when you said you wanted to set the stage?"

  "That's part of it. The other part is when Delilah walks in on us fucking each other and then we make her wait outside for a few minutes while we get dressed. Then you tell her that you never loved her and you want a divorce," I said.

  "I like the sound of that," Ben said.

  I looked down at the bulge in his pants and said, "I can see that. Let's get started and get Delilah out of my life once and for all."

  ***

  {Delilah}

  I was super excited when Ben told me that Victoria had requested an audience with me. Finally! I was going to get the answer that I craved. I decided that I wasn't going to take no for an answer. Even if she clearly told me no, it's going to take a lot more than that to keep me away. I realized that I care because I've been horrible to her and I want to make it up to her.

  Once I got to the floor of the building that Victoria's office was on I walked down the hallway and noticed that the door was open. As I got closer I heard moaning and not just any type of moaning. It was the type of moaning that happens during sex.

  My eyes went wide when I heard Ben calling out Victoria's name. No! No that's not possible! He said he loved me no matter what I did. Why would he sleep with Victoria of all people?

  "Oh yeah, just like that Ben!" Victoria screamed.

  I walked towards the office slowly and when I opened the door I saw Ben on top of Victoria and they were fucking each other as if their lives depended on it. They stopped once they climaxed together.

  To say that I was shocked was an understatement. This can't be real! Ben forced himself on Victoria just like Howard did! What is with the men that I'm with having ill intentions for Victoria? At least Frank didn't do that.

  After Ben and Victoria climaxed that was when Victoria noticed me.

  "Uh, Ben?" Victoria said. "Delilah's here."

  Ben paused and then looked at me. "Oh fuck!"

  He got off of Victoria and started gathering up his clothes. Victoria stopped him and turned her attention to me. "Delilah, wait outside. We'll be with you in a minute."

  I nodded slowly and paced back and forth out in the waiting room. My mind was reeling and I had so many questions. How could I have not noticed that Ben was cheating on me? How did I miss the signs on that? Victoria was in a coma for two months, when did they get together? How long has this been going on?

  After a moment Victoria opened the door fully clothed. "Come in."

  I did as I was told and took a seat on the chair across from the couch. There was no way that I was going to sit on that couch that my cheating husband had just had sex on.

  I blinked. "You're… Cheating on me? I thought you loved me! You said-"

  Ben rolled his eyes. "It's sad that you actually think that I would love a vile and hateful woman like you."

  "But you said that you loved me! You said you loved me no matter what I did! To think that you would take those words back and force yourself on Victoria-" I ranted.

  Victoria cut me off, "Excuse me? When you walked in here did it look like I was being forced?"

  "I know forced because you looked the same way when Howard fucked you!" I growled.

  Victoria's right eye twitched. "Excuse me, but I remember that a lot differently! You knew Howard and Wyatt had me locked up in that goddamn basement and you did nothing to stop it! If anything, you encouraged it!" She took a deep breath and composed herself, "This time around when I saw you were very happy and starting to fall in love with Ben I saw this as a means for revenge. From the way I see it, you don't deserve to be happy!

  "You are the most evilest woman I have ever had the pleasure of knowing. You make me sick. I'm glad that Ben accepted my advances. You're no saint either considering you cheated on Frank with him. And as far as being my servant goes, the answer to your question is an absolute no! I don't need you in my life! I don't want you in my life! With the way you treated me up until now do you really think that I would let someone like you serve me? Ha! In. Your. Dreams!"

  "You little bitch! If you think for one minute I'm taking no for an answer you've got that one wrong!" I roared. I shot a deadly glare at Ben. "And I'll deal with you-"

  Ben laughed, "Deal with me? You seem to be forgetting that I'm the mafia boss here and not you! If anything, I'm going to deal with you! Today!"

  I shrank back fear and mentally kicked myself. Of course in the heat of the moment I forgot that I had zero power here. I was in no position to make any demands or threats.

  Victoria handled a file from off her desk to Ben and he handed it to me.

  "What's this?" I asked.

  "Divorce papers," Ben said. "And you will sign them and this will all be over today."

  "If I don't want to sign them?" I said.

  "You'll spend the rest of your days in a nice little prison cell," Ben said.

  I gasped, "You can't just throw me in jail! You're not a judge and that's against the law!"

  Ben laughed a wicked laugh, "Oh I don't think so. You wanna know why? Because I have enough evidence of your crimes to land you in jail for a long time!"

  "Crimes? What crimes?" I asked, giving him a look of confusion.

  Ben smirked. "What crimes do you think I'm talking about?"

  My face went pale. I had no idea how Ben found out about what I had been doing. What I've been doing is not only a taboo, it's also highly illegal.

  However I do know for a fact that I won't be charged for anything that I did to Victoria because the time frame for that has long passed.

  "How… Did you find out about that?" I stuttered.

  "Did you really think you were hiding it well?" Ben said. "And as far as loving you goes, I don't love you. I never did love you. I had a job to do. I did it and thankfully it ends today. My job was to get you away from Frank and keep you away from Frank. If you ask me it was waaay too easy!"

  "But why? Why go through all that trouble?" I asked.

  "It's simple… It was for me to get my revenge," Victoria said. "It's kind of funny because after you let Howard beat me half to death and let him hand me over to another abusive asshole I swore to have my revenge on you. But as the years passed and I got free of Wyatt's clutches I worked on moving past my thirst for revenge. Here I was thinking I was going to be okay as long as you stayed away from me, I was good.

  "But fate seems to love playing tricks on people. Especially those that are the most vulnerable. Because we crossed paths again and the first thing you did was assault me. You truly thought that my place in your life was to be crushed underneath your shoe so to speak. You made me feel small and pathetic.

  "You made my issues so bad to the point where I had to get a service/guard dog. Because I knew it would help especially once my artwork started to take off and I needed to be out in public more often.

  "Imagine my surprise when I found out that my real parents were mafia bosses! I started setting my plan in motion the day they kidnapped me."

  "Huh? But how?" I asked.

  "Remember when you came to rescue me?" Victoria said, while smirking.

  I nodded. "Yeah you were getting beaten by Alastor!"

  "Do you wanna know why it was so easy for you to walk in and save Walter and I?" Victoria asked.

  That's when it dawned on me. "That was a setup wasn't it? But how is this your revenge? You know I could just go to a media source and post about Ben cheating on me with you."

  Victoria snickered. "Oh really? And what evidence could you provide for that? Not like it would do you any good anyway. You really should've been put in jail a long time ago. Tsk, that's what happens when rich people can pay off the police. Now, you'll sign the divorce papers or go to jail. The choice is yours and you'd better make it quick or I'll make the choice for you."

  I took one look into Victoria's cold eyes and that told she meant business and wouldn't hesitate to throw me in jail if I didn't comply. I sighed and when Ben handed me a pen I signed the papers.

  "Oh and one more thing," Victoria said.

  I looked at her. "What?"

  "I'm getting married at the end of this month. Even though I hate your guts you're invited," Victoria said.

  I hesitated. "Um, who are you getting married to?"

  "Walter of course," Victoria said.

  "And he knows that you're cheating on him?" I asked.

  "It's not cheating since Ben's considered a part of the arrangement of who I can sleep with. On paper Walter will be the one I'm married to but I'm getting married to Ben too. As a matter of fact, it's going to be Walter, Louis, Ben, Riley and Ross. And Walter has another girlfriend besides me so he will be marrying me, Louis, Ben and Rose," Victoria answered.

  My eyes went wide and I looked at Ben. "You slept with Walter! But you're not gay!"

  "I'm bisexual just like Victoria is," Ben said. "Of course you would know that if you actually cared enough about me to get to know me. So your selfishness worked in my favor and helped me do my job of playing the loving husband until Victoria finally got her revenge."

  Even though I was hurt by what Ben did, it confirmed to me that being in love will only lead to your detriment. That's when I realized that I did love Ben. But I decided I wasn't going to take my revenge but I did make a resolution that I was not taking no for an answer from Victoria.

  I smiled. "Don Victoria, if you think this is going to get rid of me, you are sorely mistaken."

  Victoria scoffed, "Yeah you're very delusional Delilah. From now on there will be constant surveillance on your house and you are on house arrest. You'll only be allowed out to attend the wedding and that's it."

  "Isn't that just like putting me in jail?" I asked.

  "Actually when you think about it, it's not. You can do what you want, when you want to. You can eat whatever you want and not have to wait on a schedule for meal time. You won't have gay suitors coming after your homophobic ass," Victoria answered.

  Ben chuckled, "I doubt they would go after her even in prison. They'd probably beat the shit out of her instead and give her a taste of her own medicine."

  Victoria looked at Ben with a flirtatious smile. "Now I think we're done talking about this. The security guards will see you out."

  Once Victoria started to straddle Ben's lap I took that as my cue to leave. "Don't worry Don Victoria, I'll see myself out. But mark my words I will do whatever it takes to prove myself worthy enough to be by your side."

  She wasn't paying any attention to me as she started kissing Ben. I left the office and as I was driving home I couldn't stop reeling from the betrayal that Ben. It surprised me that I was more angry at Ben than Victoria for the betrayal. Probably because of how much he told me that he loved me. He even made a declaration of love so that I wouldn't get kicked out of the mafia!

  All this time Victoria was keeping me around in order to get her revenge. I had to hand it to her, she's smarter than what I thought she was and that made me determined to prove myself worthy of being by her side.

  Once I got home I sat down on my bed and said to myself, "Just you wait Victoria. I'll be by your side. And if it means that we won't be together unless it's in the afterlife, then so be it."

  That last thought made me smile. I knew in this world I wouldn't be worthy. But if I could start over in the afterlife then I would make sure that she would be there with me.