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?”

young guys. In fact, I

“Aside from Blade.”

I didn’t say that.”

“You’re blushing.”

any guy in close proximity so it might be the only

“Attracted to him?”

know. He irritates me.”

of the attraction. Don’t fight it. I think he

me because he has been alone for a long time. And I will be just a

puffed her

her food.

not about the age gap? It’s about

I don’t

told him about how you feel?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

think I’m

are a teenager.

I’ll deal with it one day. We have more important

always talk about it. Just

I will make

but I’m fine for now. I just want to

He was just downstairs.

asked if he

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

her lips before she pushed food into her mouth. “Would you like

head. “I’m eating with the Alpha. And speaking of that, I

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

you dinner.”

I don’t eat before any rituals. I’ll

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“Oh, okay.”

need food

“Got it!”

“Thanks, Lucy!”

you!” I turned

the door

for me again.

the way, I can fix your necklace after the

Since I already summoned the

easier to just

their

exhausting yourself by then?”

cast many spells in my lifetime, so the odds are on my side. But we will see. If

before twisting the door handle, only for her to

one last

“Sure…”

eat the

“Sure…”

tell him that I was

him…”

I won’t!” I winked at her

and stepped out of

room.

♡♡♡

ADAN STONE.

not

already extracted blood from me and dripped it

made runes appear and

And I felt air rush out of

not familiar with spells and enchantments, but I was sure the first part was for the territory.

she was doing was

even Blade, and Blade didn’t like it, but the moment she was able to push him far away,

barrier that Blade was not

break.

why was she secluding

by the

drew blood from me and Lucy and

a portion of each other’s blood before she

other things I had

before.

fortes spiritus. Da mihi possibilem ad invicem ligandi. Vna vita in duobus, duo corpora in uno,” Althea was chanting in Latin

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

stood still.

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

it tightly.

vos, fortes spiritus. Da

ligandi. Vna vita

duo corpora in uno.”

breathing. My heart hammered inside my

demon.

around her before I threw a furious glare at the witch, who was standing in

us. She

than it

the fuck are you

witch just

even glancing to

spiritus. Da

ligandi. Vna vita in

corpora

twigs, and dust arise from the middle of

was moving toward me and Lucy.

is not

anymore.

Lucy!” I was shaking her body, and her eyes snapped open, but they were glassy

if she were in

now! I

but I just couldn’t leave her to snap the witch’s neck.

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