A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL : CHAPTER 1 – 10
PROLOGUE :
There were five of them.
Five hopeful souls, gathered in the dead of night beneath the ancient oak, the sky thick with stars that seemed to mock their desperation. The grove was still—too still—as if the earth itself held its breath, waiting for what was to come. Each parent carried with them the weight of unfulfilled dreams, of whispered prayers unanswered by any god they had once known.
Children. It had always been children they sought. Their lineage, their legacy. Yet the years had been unkind, leaving behind only empty cradles and hollow hearts. In their despair, they turned to the only one who had answered their calls: Lucifer.
A low wind stirred, rustling the leaves as the temperature dropped, a coldness seeping into the bones of the hopeful five. And then, he appeared. The devil did not come with fire and brimstone, nor did he arrive with the sound of cloven hooves or the smell of sulfur. He came quietly, slipping through the shadows like a forgotten memory. His presence alone bent the air around him, drawing them closer with a force they could not resist.
“I hear you wish for children,” Lucifer said, his voice a soft melody, too sweet to be true.
They nodded, some clutching their partner’s hand, others too afraid to meet his gaze.
“And you know the price?”
One woman, bolder than the rest, stepped forward. “Our fourth child will be yours,” she whispered, her voice barely audible.
Lucifer smiled, his dark eyes gleaming with something that might have been hunger or perhaps amusement. “Yes,” he agreed, “your fourth child will be mine.”
It was a simple deal, or so they thought. In exchange for the family they had always longed for, they would offer the last of their offspring to him. Not immediately, no—Lucifer wasn’t impatient. He would wait until the child was ripe, until she was ten years old.
It seemed like a far-off promise, easy to forget in the glow of newborns and the warmth of family life. And they did forget.
Ten years passed in a blur of joy and laughter, the parents consumed with their new lives. regardless still offered the fourth born to lucifer but this particular set of parents, did not.
They loved each of their children fiercely, and when their fourth daughter, Selene, was born, they cherished her like the others, never giving a second thought to the deal they had made beneath the oak tree so many years ago.
But Lucifer did not forget.
On Selene’s tenth birthday, the air shifted again. What had once been a peaceful family outing turned to tragedy in an instant. The car careened off the road, metal twisting and glass shattering as it tumbled into the abyss. Her parents’ last breaths were stolen by the impact, her siblings silenced in the chaos. But Selene… Selene survived.
She crawled from the wreckage, her heart pounding, the world around her spinning. Blood smeared her cheeks, and the weight of loss pressed down on her fragile frame. And there, in the distance, she saw him—Lucifer.
He stood among the flames, untouched by the destruction, watching her with an intensity that made her skin crawl and her heart race. His eyes softened, not with pity, but with possession. She was his now, the fourth child promised to him, the one they had forgotten.
He walked away.
From that day on, Selene was marked, bound to him in ways she did not yet understand or realize. And as the years passed, something more sinister took root in the devil’s blackened heart the moment he decided to set his gaze on her once more
On her sixteenth birthday.
A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL : CHAPTER 1 – 10
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