Devil In Disguise

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I found my potential human with demonic descent in just three days.

Nikolai Alexander Devlod.

He's 26 years old and comes from Russia. His father died when Niko was only 10 years old so he fell into the care of his uncle, Mino Devlod, who founded his international commerce company based in London in 2002 and since then has been creating an immense fortune of which Nikolai is a fundamental part. Niko is a linguistic genius and has been in contact with the biggest international clients since he was only 19 years old.

With a net worth of 400 million euros, Nikolai is one of the most influential young businessmen in the UK and across Europe. His charisma has gained the attention of the media, who love to interview him for anything he does and who love to make a fuss every time Nikolai takes a breath.

Women chase after him like he’s the last man on earth, but the young man has repeatedly mentioned that his focus is on continuing to grow the family business and nothing else. That only makes them want him even more.

And you can't blame them, Nikolai is the perfect man. The husband desired by any woman who wants to ensure a lovely future. Besides being filthy rich, hardworking and focused, he is extremely beautiful. Masculine yet delicate features. A tall and strong body, it's impossible not to be attracted to him. Plus, he loves animals! He visits shelters around the country whenever he can and even has a foundation that helps stray dogs and cats find a home.

And all that information I found in five minutes when I read a magazine of the most important people in London. And just by reading that, anyone would totally believe that he is the most perfect man in the universe by the way they talk about him... but as soon as I saw his eyes, I knew: Nikolai is evil.

Call it a female instinct or an evil instinct, whatever. I just knew.

So for three months I followed him and watched and analyzed everything he did. Three months may seem like a long time, but it's extremely difficult to identify a demonic human in a sea of simple, evil humans. They are basically the same at first glance and they‘re not even aware of what they are, so you have to study them very, very carefully.

Now I'm almost certain that he has demonic blood. And I know it'll be a pain in the äss to get him through the tests, but I need to prove he is really demonic so I don’t fück up the entire sacrifice and kill him before Yzhabat even comes to get him.

“How about I just send him to hell right now?” I ask Belzat half jokingly, taking a huge cup of hot chocolate to my mouth for a sip and letting out a sigh of pleasure at the delicious hot liquid running through me. It's so cold tonight that I need to blink often so I don't feel my eyes freezing.

“Aha... so you can make Yzhabat even angrier and make him punish you again," My brother mutters without losing his calm face for a second.

“Okay, I get your point,” I roll my eyes. And I wasn't even serious... much. I can't help it. I'm a lazy devil, “Can you give me some kind of advice for the tests?”

“Uh...” Belzat thinks for a few seconds, giving me a chance to look at his concentrated face. He must be around 40 human years, give or take. And he's very, extremely attractive.

It's not unusual for a devil to have an attractive cover, but his non-devilish personality makes him incredibly sexy to me. A challenge, you might call it.

He's a good man, generally speaking. He doesn't even fall for carnal temptations, I tried that a few weeks ago. The fact that he's one of my brothers doesn't make me want him any less, and incest doesn't exist between devils... or at least, we don't care. In fact, sometimes the sinful idea of it gets us hornier. Several of my best sëxual experiences were with my siblings, once upon a time.

“We have all day,” I joke a little later, slowly licking the hot chocolate that has dripped on my fingers.

“The only advise I can give you is to be very careful. Extremely careful. Be exaggerated even if it doesn't seem necessary. You will feel a connection to his sins when he is committing them and if you don't feel it, then he is not the one.”

“Then I need to get close to my demonic human, right? Earn his trust and be constantly around him?”

“Indeed," He answers, smiling at my whimper.

I really don't want to have to spend time with the human I chose, he’s mean and awful. Everyone is afraid of him and his aura is constantly black, with brown tones.

He's perfect for the sacrifice, not for hanging out.

Nikolai

If there's one thing people know about me as soon as they meet me, it's that my patience is non-existent. So I can't explain how this person, who has known me all of his life, still doesn't understand.

“I don't have time for you, Andre,” I spit without even raising my head. My temples are already throbbing because of him, but of course my cousin doesn't take my words seriously and closes my laptop, smashing it with my fingers still inside of it.

I hold back any complaint about the pain and just give him a tired look. It's not often that I have to work and when that happens, I have even less patience than usual.

“What the fück do you want?”

“You've been locked up in this fücking office for three days, working on a failed deal. It's time to get out of here and live again.”

“No. I'm trying to arrange a face-to-face meeting with the director to re-discuss what he didn't like about our terms. Maybe if we bend our arm they...“

“Just accept that you failed and let it go. You can't win every time," he says, shrugging like it's no big deal. And I'd like to correct him because I can always win and that is usually how it goes, but he keeps talking. "My dad sent me here to tell you that you have to give up. The deal clearly didn't go through, so he doesn't need you here anymore.”

“Fück!” I suddenly explode, scaring Andre and making him walk away from me as I get up and kick the desk, knocking down several things that I won't pick up.

I can't believe I ruined my perfect record of 50 deals completed in just half a year.

“Anyway, like I was saying... we were invited to a place tonight that's going to cheer you up," Andre continues, ignoring my temper. He steps closer to leave a black invitation on my laptop, “You have two hours to mourn your failure and then meet me at this address.”

I pick up the extremely suspicious card and inspect it. All it has is the name of the place, Sinners, the address and our names.

“Who invited you?”

“A new friend of my absolute trust. Don't worry about it. And I can't tell you what it is, it's a surprise.”

I can imagine what kind of place it is just by the name of it, but I roll my eyes and nod.

Whatever.

Fifteen minutes later, once I've managed to control myself a bit, I leave the office which I won't see again for a while and I head for the building's garage. There are a few reporters outside waiting for me but I'm not interested in talking to anyone. I get into my car and go out the back exit so they don't see me.

I don't want to talk about my failure, I just want to go chill out and drown in pleasure tonight.

Agatha

I'm ready for the first meeting with my human. And nervous, too, although it fills me with disappointment that I'm not ready to really start testing him.

Before my punishment I was a confident and efficient devil at all times, I felt untouchable and perfect. I think she wouldn't have waited this long to start the tests. It hurts me not to be like her anymore, but I feel like I'm slowly coming back.

Nikolai is the most enigmatic and complicated human I've ever come across, or maybe it's just that people are too different these days and I don't know how to deal with them anymore. That's another reason why I can't start the tests yet.

I stand in front of the big mirror in the room that my brother inhabited for me, admiring my short hair that is growing just as thick and straight as it was once upon a time. I've never had hair at chin length before, but I like it. My skin is healing and I'm slowly returning to normal, even though it is extremely difficult to adapt.

Before facing Nikolai I had to take a general culture crash course with Belzat.

He thought me how to use the phone he gave me, how to deal with this new breed of humans and he gave me the news of all the years that I wasn’t on earth. I almost had an anxiety attack at the immense amount of changes to the life I knew and loved before.

The Internet. Social media. Smart phones, smart computers, smart fücking houses. Everything is smart these days except for me.

I missed out on so many things that I almost regret wanting to live in this world again, but that's not going to happen. Anything is better than being in hell. So I buy all that smart crap, I buy the clothes that are in style and I study women my age to be like them. I'm ready for anything... except to start the tests, apparently.

Anyway, I'm ready to take the first step and luckily it was pretty easy to get everything I needed.

Nikolai and his four closest friends frequent private places like my brother's club all the time, so all I had to do was organize a Gentlemen's Night and send out fancy invitations for a couple of influential men, including Nikolai and his pack. I didn’t invite any real gentlemen though, but that’s not a surprise. Even before this new age men were disgusting and awful. That hasn’t changed.

I sit at the bar for three hours until Nikolai arrives with his pack and I smile at my small triumph. I knew this would work, this kind of men love places like this, makes them feel powerful.

They all greet each other with familiarity without acknowledging the half-naked or totally naked people around them, like they’re just part of the décor.

I watch Nikolai all the time, surprised to notice that he hasn’t purchased any women yet, not even to have one by his side for the rest of the night, like his friends. He just looks around enjoying the depravity and drinks until his normal thick black aura dissipates a little, showing hints of red while he’s talking to his three friends who are just as evil as he is.

Maybe they’re not demonic by blood but they’re still demonic in my eyes, especially the one with an underage-looking naked girl on his lap.

I wait two more hours for them to get drunk, high and loose, and then I declare the start of my amazing scheme. I grab a tray and walk directly to the exclusive lounge with these demonic humans, with a big smile on my face.

"Courtesy of the house," I announce, leaving a glass of expensive liquor in front of each one. The demonic humans smile and thank me, watching me with hungry eyes until I leave, once I make sure Nikolai has his own glass.

One of my many specialties years ago was manipulation of substances and fortunately, I didn't lose my touch after my retirement to hell. It's only been ten minutes and I can already tell that Nikolai is affected just as I imagined him to be. It's not very obvious, but I can see that his eyes are starting to look detached and that's just what I want.

I approach my brother to tell him that it's time to take step number two and I walk to the garage, moving my hips side to side as I walk and play with my hair even though no one is watching me, just because I like the way it makes me feel.

I really missed this life and I'm not going to lose it again, I don’t care how many souls it costs me.