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

“Aside from Blade.”

I didn’t say that.”

“You’re blushing.”

it might be the only reason

“Attracted to him?”

He irritates me.”

Don’t fight it. I think he

for a long time. And I

she blinked it back and puffed her chest before walking to

her food.

the age gap? It’s about being

so. I don’t know.”

told him about how you feel?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

I’m a whiny teenager.”

a teenager.

I’ll deal with it one day. We

talk about it.

I will make time.”

for now. I just want to know

he didn’t. He was just downstairs. The

asked if he

that

curl on her lips before she pushed food

And speaking of that, I should get going or he

Athea giggled as she motioned with her hand. “I’ll see you later at

you dinner.”

any rituals. I’ll be fine.

TT

“Oh, okay.”

I need

“Got it!”

“Thanks, Lucy!”

Thank you!” I turned

head for the door

for me again.

fix your necklace

I already summoned

it’s easier to

have their powers around me.”

you exhausting yourself

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

before twisting the door handle, only for

one last favor…”

“Sure…”

didn’t eat the food Gamma Kingston bought for him this morning.”

“Sure…”

him that I was

him…”

won’t!” I winked at her before I

the door and stepped out

room.

♡♡♡

ADAN STONE.

not right.

blood from me and dripped it on the circle, where she

made runes appear and chanted

her mouth. And I felt air rush out of my lungs. She said that was the first

I

this one she was doing

like it, but the

Blade was not

break.

was just for the whole territory, why was she secluding the people

protected by the

then drew blood from me and Lucy

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

other things I had never

before.

vos, fortes spiritus. Da mihi possibilem ad invicem ligandi. Vna vita in duobus, duo corpora

candles all around us kept flickering, but they didn’t wither. Soon her chants became louder,

stood still.

who was standing beside me. Her face looked pale as she kept swallowing. My hand

squeezed it

vos, fortes spiritus. Da

ligandi. Vna vita

corpora in uno.”

she were having a hard time breathing. My heart hammered inside my chest, as sweat formed everywhere in my body. Something was

demon.

before I threw a furious glare at the witch, who was

us. She was

the fucking Latin words louder than it was paining my ears

the fuck are you doing?!”

the fucking witch just

glancing to look

spiritus.

ad invicem ligandi.

corpora in uno.”

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

was moving toward me and

This is not fucking right

anymore.

her body, and her eyes snapped

if she were in

the fuck now! I will fucking

in my body, but I just

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