Dark Lord Seduction System: Taming Wives, Daughters, Aunts, and CEOs Chapter 1036: Through: Nyxire

I didn’t warn them.

Of course I didn’t. Where’s the fun in spoiling my own masterpiece?

The van kept accelerating like it had sowhere better to be than the pathetic little world we were leaving behind. Thirty faces—my glorious, chaotic harem of goddess perfection—froze in real ti.

Conversations strangled themselves mid-sentence.

Laughter got executed on the spot. Heads snapped toward that glorious 180-degree windshield where the cliff yawned open like the universe itself was bored of their mortal nonsense and ready to swallow them whole.

Genevieve clutched Maya’s arm like it owed her money. Margaret’s eyes shot open from her massage chair faster than she’d ever reacted to anything that wasn’t a direct order from . Charlotte’s hand locked on her tablet like the damn thing could save her.

Amanda—Amanda, the woman who’d rather die than close her laptop—slamd it shut and braced like a good little soldier.

Then Mom hit with the nuclear "Peter—"

That voice. That sweet, soul-crushing mom voice that sohow survived supernatural harems, interdinsional real estate, and my ever-expanding god-complex. It still made feel like a delinquent sixteen-year-old who’d just set the garage on fire.

Adorable.

The van hit the edge.

Reality bubbled.

The windshield lted into liquid madness—colors stretching like cheap taffy in the hands of a sadistic deity. The cabin vibrated straight into everyone’s bones, bypassing ears entirely and going for the marrow like a proper cosmic bully.

Gravity took a quick vacation.

For one beautiful, weightless second, thirty of the most beautiful won on Earth floated like elegant balloons—hair lifting, bodies rising, crystal glassware hovering, ARIA’s chandelier strands spreading like a frozen firework that even I had to admit looked dramatic as hell.

Then we punched through.

The bubble popped. Gravity rembered its job. Wheels kissed ancient stone—pale, flawless, older than your ancestors’ excuses—and the ride turned silk-smooth again.

The windshield cleared, and the world on the other side laughed in the face of everything they thought they knew.

A driveway of pure arrogance stretched ahead beneath cathedral oaks. Golden light dripped through leaves so perfectly arranged they looked photoshopped by a god with taste.

The grass? Impossibly green. Every blade the sa height, maintained with the kind of psychotic precision that made surgeons look sloppy. The air itself tasted cleaner, older, smugger—like the Chasm had been the bouncer and this was the VIP lounge it had been guarding all along.

Nobody spoke.

They glued themselves to the windows like kids who’d just realized Santa was real and also slightly terrifying. Hands on glass. Breath fogging the tint. Mouths hanging open in the sacred silence of mortals realizing they’d just driven through a hole in reality and landed sowhere that made their entire previous lives look like a budget PowerPoint presentation.

Margaret broke first, voice barely a whisper. "I forgive everything," she breathed. "Every bus. Every vote. Every uncomfortable mont I just went through right now. Forgiven."

Patricia’s hand stayed glued to Margaret’s belly while the other pressed flat against the hers. Her face wore that rare, beautiful expression she gets when sothing refuses to be organized, filed, or controlled.

She stared at the impossible perfection and then looked at through the glass. Her lips moved silently: My God.

Luna was awake now—headphones abandoned, glasses shoved into her hair like she needed zero obstructions to witness my glory. Maria sat beside her, mother and daughter gripping hands, watching the driveway unfold like it was the first honest thing they’d ever seen.

Neither bothered looking at .

This mont was theirs, and I, in my infinitegenerosity, allowed it.

Then the mansion revealed itself.

Grey stone rising like it owned the concept of majesty. Mirrored walls catching the dying light and throwing it back with interest.

The tower face watching us with window-eyes that had been waiting.

The fountain spiraling upward like physics was rely a polite suggestion. Gardens shifting at the edges of vision, alive and aware and clearly thrilled I was finally ho.

The van parked. Doors opened. My won spilled out onto warm stone and scattered like beautiful chaos, drawn in every direction by rooms, gardens, and impossible details that whispered their nas differently.

I let them go. Generous Dark Lord privileges.

Madison, of course, stayed glued to my side. Arm looped through mine, body pressed against my shoulder—not because she was overwheld, she’d walked these halls before, but because she chose to.

Because watching our ridiculous family discover my masterpiece together was its own delicious intimacy.

"Stables?" she asked, voice soft with that knowing smile.

"Stables," I confird, because even gods have priorities.

We walked through the courtyard, past the upward fountain, past hedges that shifted when they thought we weren’t looking, along paths lined with trees older than every country that had ever disappointed .

Her head leaned against my shoulder, steps perfectly matched, like the universe itself had finally learned how to coordinate.

The equestrian facility waited—stone walls the color of warm honey, arched windows glowing, slate roof crowned with weather vanes shaped like running horses spinning in a breeze that existed purely to show off.

I’d missed this place. I hadn’t admitted it out loud—I’m not that weak—but the pull had been there, low and constant, a thread tied between my ribs and the mansion’s ancient foundation. The LA estate was ho. The penthouse was ho. Wherever my won slept was ho.

But this? This was sothing older, sothing that made the word "ho" sound adorably insufficient.

And the mansion knew it too. The stone ward faster beneath my feet. Lights brightened just for . The air shifted into warm pockets that moved with instead of against .

The gardens didn’t just shift—they leaned, like sunflowers tracking their rightful sun.

It was welcoming its master back. Personally. With quiet, ancient relief that basically scread: Finally. Don’t leave again, you magnificent bastard.

Nyxire was already at the gate.

I’d nad her on last visit—because a horse that beautiful deserved a na worthy of my taste. White as moonlight, mane flowing like fog, eyes holding the sa vast, ancient calm as the void we’d just violated.

She watched us approach with pure recognition.

She pressed her velvet nose into my palm and exhaled—long, warm, the breath of sothing that had been waiting with the patience only immortals and superior horses possess.

"Hey, girl," I murmured. "Missed you too."

Madison pressed closer, heartbeat steady against my arm. "Every ti," she whispered, looking at Nyxire, the stables, the mansion glowing behind us like it was showing off just for , "every ti I think I’ve seen everything you are... there’s more. There’s always more."

I kissed the top of her head. My queen. The first. The one who believed before believing was even fashionable for Peter Carter.

Nyxire nudged my chest—impatient, possessive, the equine version of stop kissing your girlfriend and rember who the real favorite is, asshole.

Behind us, the mansion humd—warm, alive, smug as hell—full of thirty won discovering rooms they’d never want to leave, gardens that moved when they looked away, and a life that had stopped making sense long ago...

...and had beco sothing far, far better instead.

Ho~

Welco to your new ho, ladies. Try not to embarrass yourselves too much in front of the sentient architecture. It has standards. I have standards.

And trust ... we’re both very hard to impress.