BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha's Little Demon by Cassandra M

Chapter 56

056 – Hell Breaks Loose

LUCY.

Althea opened her bedroom and let me in. I placed the tray of food on the round table at the far end before I faced her.

“Did you rest?” My eyes scanned her room, and her bed was cluttered with big, old- looking books.

She shook her head and pointed to the books

on her bed. “I want to make sure I’ll be

doing the right thing.”

“But I thought you needed to rest.”

“This is rest for me – one with my books and channeling the spirits.” She giggled softly while I bit my bottom lip as I nodded my head.

“Are you sure about the additional request? And the Alpha still doesn’t know?” She

asked.

“I’m sure. And yes, he doesn’t know anything.”

“He might kill me.”

“He won’t. I will protect you from him.”

“Are you sure you will defy him if he asks you not to shield me?”

“That won’t be the first time I will defy him. But I know you can protect yourself. But I want you to be honest with me, Althea. Am I putting you in danger with my request?”

“If you had no plan to unbind yourself, then no. I won’t be in danger.”

“However, you mentioned that this ritual is against nature.”

“All supernaturals were born against nature.

We are the result of centuries of wars and

disagreements between the gods. This magic

would not exist if it could not be used. Some

people were just abusing it.”

“Do you think I’m abusing it?”

“You’re protecting your Alpha. In the same way, I’m asking you to kill Patrea in order to free her spirits. Killing her is going against

nature. We are not the ones to decide when a

person should die or remain alive. So we’re just in the same boat.”

“Are we going to get punished?”

“The underworld would never punish you.”

“And you?”

“I’m doing it for a good purpose. I’m not binding you together, so I can kill one and, in effect, kill the other as well. If you get my

point.”

“I do. It makes me feel a bit better.”

“But you have to be ready. Because once I

bind

you, you will feel a connection within

you and the Alpha, and he might sense it.”

I hissed and smoothed my hands over my

hair.

“That’s the reason I had to do the shield

first, so whatever happens, if he stops me in the middle and throws me out, the shield is already in place.”

“Thank you… I will make sure he won’t interrupt you.”

“And there must be just two souls, not including mine, in the area where I will do the ritual. Otherwise, your life could be tied to anyone around you.”

I nodded my head. “You should eat. You need energy for tonight.”

She ignored my words and instead asked something else. “Where is Blade?”

A smile curled on my lips. “You miss him…”

“I think I overdid it this morning. He’s

probably super mad at me for being childish.

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“Don’t worry, he will get over it.”

“He was ignoring me the whole morning, and I thought I’d joke around just to get a reaction from him. And oh boy, I did get one! “Althea pouted as she crossed her arms against her chest. She looked like an eighteen -year-old having a boy problem, not the

fierce witch I met.

“If him, ignoring you, bothers you, why don’t you give him a chance?”

“He’s twelve years older than me.”

“And Alpha Stone is eight years older than me. And it’s working fine. After all, look at you. Look at the power and maturity you hold, do you think an 18-year-old guy can match up to you?”

really like young guys. In fact, I don’t

“Aside from Blade.”

I didn’t

“You’re blushing.”

proximity so it might

“Attracted to him?”

don’t know. He irritates

fight it. I

don’t think so. I think he just wants to claim me because he has been alone for a long

puffed her

her food.

age gap? It’s about being

guess so. I

him about how you

“No.”

“Why not?”

I’m a whiny teenager.”

are a teenager.

it. I’ll deal with it one day. We

always talk about it. Just tell me

I will

I’m fine for now. I just want to

he didn’t. He was

if he wanted to

the training grounds, but he refused. He stated that he will not leave you alone in the packhouse.”

her lips before she pushed food into her

shook my head. “I’m eating with the Alpha. And speaking of that, I should get going or he might storm here

as she motioned with her hand. “I’ll see you later at seven in the evening.”

bring you dinner.”

I don’t eat before any

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“Oh, okay.”

I need food after.”

“Got it!”

“Thanks, Lucy!”

I turned

the door

for me again.

the way, I can fix

I already

easier to just chant

their

exhausting yourself by

are on my side. But we will see. If I don’t have more energy tonight then we’ll do it some

smiled at her before twisting the door

one last

“Sure…”

eats? He didn’t eat the food Gamma

“Sure…”

don’t tell him that I

him…”

winked at

stepped out of

room.

♡♡♡

ADAN STONE.

not right.

already extracted blood from me and dripped it on the

made runes appear and chanted

her mouth. And I felt air

I was sure the first

she was doing

away, even Blade, and Blade didn’t like it, but the

Blade was not

break.

the whole territory, why was she secluding

been protected by the shield she

then drew blood from me and Lucy

a portion of each other’s blood before she mixed them

and other things I had

before.

in

fire on the candles all around us kept flickering, but they didn’t wither.

stood still.

standing beside me. Her face looked pale as she kept swallowing. My hand went to

squeezed it tightly.

spiritus.

ligandi.

corpora

to roll as her mouth parted as if she were having a hard time breathing. My heart hammered inside my chest, as sweat formed everywhere in my body. Something

demon.

at the witch, who was standing in the middle of her runes with her eyes closed and arms wide open, her hair raising

us. She was continuously

Latin words louder than

are you doing?!” I bellowed

fucking witch just

to look at

vos, fortes spiritus. Da mihi

ad invicem ligandi. Vna

corpora

of dried leaves, twigs, and dust arise from the middle of

was moving toward me and

widened. This is not fucking right

anymore.

her eyes snapped

she were in a trance.

the fuck now! I will

my body, but I just couldn’t leave her

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