This was the lair of the demon, Lucien.

A few years ago, he and I had a huge argument over something. I took advantage of the chaos to escape from the mansion, only to find out I was pregnant with my daughter.

I was not one to give up, so I never contacted him, even after my daughter was born. I never expected that, after all this time, I would end up being dragged back here.

Realizing this, my panic slowly started to subside.

"I know you’re demons! Let me go!"

The two men exchanged a glance and suddenly burst out laughing.

"So what if you know? You’ll be dead soon anyway."

Their eyes were filled with mockery as they looked at me. One of them pulled a sharp knife from his pocket and stabbed it hard into my palm.

I let out a scream, coughing up a mouthful of blood.

The man dipped his fingers into my blood and brought it to his mouth, inhaling deeply as if savoring it.

Trembling, I managed to say, "Lucien is my boyfriend! If you dare lay another hand on me, he’ll twist your heads off and use them as footballs!"

The mention of Lucien seemed to shock them. But before I could process their reaction, I was slapped hard across the face.

"How dare you mention our boss? Our lady boss has been dead for a long time!"

Dead?

I froze, suddenly realizing that my disappearance must have made Lucien think I was dead.

"It’s me! I even gave him a daughter!" I tried to explain anxiously, but I didn’t know where to start.

One of the men sneered, grabbed my hair and ran his disgusting tongue over the wound on my face, causing sharp pain to shoot through it.

My hands trembled and as my eyes landed on my unconscious daughter nearby, an idea struck me. I shouted, "If you don’t believe me, look at her! My daughter is a demon!"

The two men exchanged a thoughtful glance before rushing over to sniff my daughter’s arm.

Their expressions immediately changed.

Hope sparked in my heart, thinking I was saved. But the next moment, he kicked me hard, sending me sprawling to the ground.

"Damn it, just a filthy half-breed born of a human and a demon! There’s no way our boss would ever be with a human! You wretched woman, how dare you lie to us! I’ll tear your soul into eighty-one pieces!"

I had heard of soul shredders before, back when Lucien jokingly used it to threaten me.

A human soul was made up of three Ethereal Soul and nine Corporeal Soul. The twelve fragments that demons could consume were called the "soul breaths."

Normally, demons only needed to cook their food before eating it, but some demons were violent by nature and cruelly broke souls apart piece by piece.

Just the thought of it was utterly disgusting. It was precisely because I couldn’t tolerate this that I had a huge fight with Lucien.

He had coaxed me back then, promising that he would never let demons feed on humans again. But now, it seemed he was just lying to me.

I struggled violently, terrified to my core. Just as the man was about to swing the knife down on me, the door was pushed open from the outside.

"The boss is awake, don't make too much noise."

He saw the mess in the room and frowned. "You can't even handle a mere human, huh?”

I let out a soft sob, recognizing him as Lucien's assistant. Maybe he could recognize me.

With that thought, I immediately raised my head and tried to grab his pant leg. Before I could reach him, two men from behind grabbed me.

In a panic, I quickly said, "Dorian! I'm Lucien's girlfriend!"

Dorian froze for a moment, then his expression darkened. He stepped forward and asked, "Where did you get this woman from?"

The two men saw this and immediately grabbed my neck, nervously saying, "She's the spy we just captured. Everything she's saying is made up to save her own life!"

"Besides, Boss’s girlfriend died a few years ago, right? I think this shameless woman is trying to impersonate her. I was about to teach her a lesson!"

I widened my eyes, my mouth covered and unable to make any sound, only able to let out soft whimpering noises.

I instinctively reached my arm towards Dorian's direction. ‘Help me.’

"Let her go."

Dorian stepped forward, gripping my chin as he examined me closely.

A spark of hope flickered in my heart.

The next second, I was thrown to the ground. Then came Dorian's cold voice. "She's not Lucien's girlfriend, you guys deal with her yourself."

As soon as the voice fell, the two men spat at me fiercely. "Damn it, I knew you were lying!"

Before I could react, my right face stung with pain as my head jerked to one side and a buzzing sound filled my ears.

One of the men kicked me in the waist, sending my knees hitting the ground heavily and the pain attacked me instantly.

In the end, blood soaked my clothes.

The man smiled grimly and pretended to take off my clothes. "If you don't want to die obediently, then let us play with you before you die."

I raised my hand to block and the next moment, I screamed. My ten fingers were forcibly broken.

The intense pain made my body tremble and I lost all strength to stop them. Just as I was sinking into despair, I heard a lazy voice.

"What’s going on, why so noisy?"

The voice was one I knew all too well. It was Lucien.

With just those words, the two men in the room immediately lowered their heads and fell silent.

Hope surged in my heart at that moment.

Lucien was here.

If he was here, he would surely be able to save me. With that thought, I summoned all my remaining strength to break free from the grip of the two men and rushed toward the door, shouting at the top of my lungs. "Lucien!"

The two men reacted quickly, blocked my mouth with their hands and dragged me back into the room.

With a bang, the door closed again.

I tried to struggle, but my tongue felt a sharp pain and blood filled my mouth.

They actually cut off my tongue with a knife.

The pain almost knocked me unconscious and I let out soft whimpering sounds.

"I hear a woman's voice?" Lucien's voice was getting closer and eventually, it seemed to stop right outside the door.

The two men, their faces cold, ignored the fact that Lucien was still nearby and twisted my limbs painfully.

With a loud crash, I felt every bone in my body shift out of place.

I tried to scream, but all that came out was a faint wheeze. They forced my head down to the ground, pressing it into the shards from earlier.

The smell of blood spread and I was on the brink of losing consciousness. In the chaos, I decided to slam my head hard against the ground, making a loud noise.

With a loud thud, the door was kicked open.

Lucien walked in with a stern expression, his face full of displeasure. "Didn't I tell you not to..."

Before he could finish, the two men immediately knelt on the floor, their heads bowed as they spoke in a submissive tone. "Boss, this woman learned our secret, so we had no choice but to silence her."

"That's right. If we let her go, who knows what kind of trouble she might cause."

Lucien glanced at them, his brows furrowing. It seemed like he sensed a familiar smell.

He pointed at me and asked, "Where did you get her from?"

A wheezing sound escaped from my throat. No, he couldn’t hear me.

With that thought, I crawled toward him. Before I could speak, Lucien recoiled in disgust and took a step back.

The two men snapped out of it and immediately slapped me, sending me tumbling to the ground. With fierce expressions, they hissed. "How dare you try to seduce our boss! Do you even know your place?"

"Lord Dorian just arrived and she dares to impersonate your girlfriend and deceive us. She needs to be taught a lesson!"

I shook my head continuously, unwilling to give up the last chance. I held up my bloodied hand, with a red mole in the center of my palm. If Lucien saw it, he would definitely recognize me.

"You dare impersonate my woman? Do you think you're worthy?"

I stared at him in a daze, unable to believe that he didn’t recognize me. The pain in my heart was like fire, making me weak and unable to hold myself up. I collapsed to the ground.

Lucien pressed his lips together, clearly displeased and walked out. "Handle it yourselves! Hurry up and don’t stain my carpet!"

The door slammed shut and the room was plunged into darkness.

"How dare you touch our boss?"

"Still calling yourself his girlfriend? His real girlfriend is of noble blood, not someone as lowly as you!"

It seemed that beating me wasn’t enough to satisfy them. Their eyes then shifted to my unconscious daughter lying nearby.

I crawled over and tried to hold my daughter in my arms.

However, they lifted my daughter up, stepped firmly on my chest, pressed me to the ground and said viciously, "I'll let you pretend. First, I'll kill your daughter, then I'll kill you too!"

My daughter woke up from the pain, she was terrified and cried. "Mom! I want mommy!"

But the man scraped her face with the shards. Instantly, a trail of blood appeared instantly, looking horrifying.

I was furious, but I was helpless, only able to watch my daughter being tortured.

Suddenly, a few cracking sounds came from the corner of the room. There, another man was standing in the shadows.

He lowered his head, seemingly fiddling with a camera, as a coquettish female voice came from the phone.

"Darling, make sure to torture her as much as you can! Don't let her die too easily."

"Oh, send me the photos, I love seeing people like Calista, so high and mighty, being dragged into the abyss."

I didn't recognize the man's face, but I had engraved that voice into my bones.

She was my best friend, Lysandra. She was once the person I considered my closest friend, but now, not only had she dragged me into the abyss, she also wanted to see me die miserably before her eyes.

Taking the opportunity, the man asked, "What do you want to do with her? I can help you with anything."

Lysandra smiled coquettishly. "Let her daughter be tortured to death, her soul will only fall into hell! As for her... let's make her watch her daughter die in agony."

The man chuckled lightly, then turned and drew a sharp blade, stabbing it into my daughter's body.

In an instant, blood gushed out and my daughter screamed in pain.

My heart was filled with rage and with my last strength, I threw the man to the ground.

He spat fiercely and the blade plunged into my eye. In the pain, two streams of blood tears fell from my eyes.

My daughter seemed to feel my agony, her hands reached out to grab me, but she could only grasp at air.

"Mom! Mom!"

Suddenly, dark energy appeared above her head, along with a pair of faint, shadowy horns.

This was the sign of being possessed.

The sharp blade ripped through my daughter's back, blood spraying everywhere and chunks of flesh stuck to the knife.

Suddenly, the door crashed open and Lucien stormed in. His face looked pale with anger, with a blood stain at the corner of his mouth.

His eyes were red and dark energy surrounded him, making him look terrifying. That's when I remembered, he and my daughter shared a blood bond.

When my daughter awakened her demonic nature and was cruelly tortured, he, as her father, could feel it too.

The moment he looked down at me, I gritted my teeth, enduring the intense pain throughout my body. I used my foot to pick up the feathers that had fallen from my daughter's body and placed them in front of him.

He must have known that demons with a blood bond share the same wings!