Page 67 of Inheritance
EPILOGUE 2
Ama
100 Years Later
“They made a sign,” Alora murmured in embarrassment, her cheeks going bright red as she realized what her dad had done, exactly. “They made a fucking sign for my dorm room door.”
They had, and it was honestly hilarious.
“I know, honey.” I wrapped an arm around my daughter’s shoulder in comfort, but my lips had tweaked up, my laughter barely contained. “Just remember, this is only going to happen once…probably.” I stopped and thought about it for a second. “I actually don’t know if they will do it each year or not,” I admitted, causing her to groan in response, like the world was ending and she couldn’t bear it any longer.
She definitely got her dramatic side from Fin and Luce.
“That isn’t even the worst part, though!” Alora pointed towards Finias accusingly, standing a few feet away in her dorm, his eyes all misty with emotion as he inspected where our little girl would be living.
He was a total softy when it came to our daughter and it made both my heart and pussy puddle with warmth.
She meant the custom shirt he was wearing…the one that had a photo collage of the two of them printed on it, back and front. I knew he wasn’t the only one who’d had one made, either—he just happened to be the only one that decided to wear his today.
It was true, though. He always did stuff like this, and it was one of my favorite things ever. The grumpy and bloodthirsty assassin turned enthusiastic and emotional dad. Who would have thought?
“I’m used to his antics, but the rest of my dads?! Putting up that sign?! This is literally insane, Mom. Make them stop,” Alora growled, her purple and gold mixed eyes flashing with frustration.
“It isn’t a big deal,” Colt assured, looking pleased with what Damien was helping him hang up. “It is just a framed royal decree that says any male who enters this room will be punished under the rule of law in Hell. Not a big deal, just some execution.”
There he was, that vicious side of him that made me all hot and bothered. Honestly, I didn’t think anything could be hotter than him threatening to kill anyone who came near me, besides the rest of my mates, but seeing him that way towards our daughter was even better.
All of the guys had that same level of protectiveness towards Alora, and I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have such amazing mates. Our daughter may be grumpy with theirslightlyoverbearing ways, but I knew she loved it when they doted on her and protected her.
She had such a beautiful relationship with all of them, that reminded me of my own relationship with my father. I couldn’t have hoped for anything more.
“Just a little head-chopping,” Finias agreed, sniffling emotionally while talking about a possible murder.
“Honey, you know that’s not even legal, it’s just a scare tactic,” I assured her.
The world had changed a lot in the past hundred years and I’d made good on my promise to Adrien to expand and explore the rest of the realms, specifically Earth.
Except what we found on Earth was something we couldn’t have expected, despite all of the books Adrien had read in his thirst for knowledge.
I’d known about the veil between hell and earth as a reaper, but when we crossed over, I’d been surprised to find that there were additional veils and realms. Above earth, where the humans prospered, was another veil that led to the supernatural realm of creatures, and above that, another veil that led to the God realm.
Unless you could travel through the veils or had someone willing to cross you over, which required a large amount of power, you couldn’t just pass through them.
Humans, while knowing about the supernatural world, wouldn’t be able to show up at a place like Dark Imaginarium Academy, because it was centrally located in the supernatural realm with all of the creatures who existed neither in Heaven or Hell.
Vampires, Witches, Angels, Shifters, and a plethora of other creatures. After speaking with the Headmistress, we’d come to an agreement to add a Demon sector to their academy, opening the door to more opportunities to those from Hell.
It was an adjustment for all of the different realms, and there had been a few blips as species adjusted to the knowledge of their being more out there that they hadn’t known of before, and then being expected to mingle and behave themselves.
I’d had to lay down the law as Queen with a few of my demons, but it had sorted out quickly.
There was even a monitoring system in place that detected what species you were as you crossed the veils, keeping those who should be in each one, firmly in their realm. Of course, there were exceptions, like when each realm’s leaders came together to work towards a unified future. So far, we had tentatively had peace between the four realms.
I liked to believe that it was a possibility to unite us all, which is why I encouraged young demons to attend a place like DIA.
So I was being mostly serious about them not being able to execute any males that came to her room, I think that would qualify as breaking the peace treaty signed from the realms.
I honestly should have expected this, considering how they had been with her growing up, but this was even extreme for them, and I knew it was because we were dropping her off for her first year at DIA. It was a big step and honestly, while I was glad I had set up an exchange program for our young demons to attend school here, it did make me a bit nervous. I just liked our little girl safe and sound inside of our castle in Hell.
