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?”

guys. In fact,

“Aside from Blade.”

didn’t

“You’re blushing.”

proximity so it might be the only

“Attracted to him?”

know. He

it. I think he likes

he just wants to claim me because he has been alone for a long time. And I will be just a replacement.” She chewed her bottom

blinked it back and puffed her chest before

her food.

about the age gap? It’s about being

so. I don’t know.”

you told him about how you feel?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

he’ll think I’m a

a

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

can always talk about it.

will

fine for now. I just

didn’t. He was

actually asked if he wanted to join

that he will

before she pushed food into her mouth. “Would you like to eat?”

speaking of that, I should get

she motioned with her hand. “I’ll see you later at seven

you dinner.”

any rituals.

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“Oh, okay.”

I need food after.”

“Got it!”

“Thanks, Lucy!”

turned around and

head for the door when she

for me again.

can fix your necklace after the

already summoned

it’s easier to just

I have their powers around me.”

you exhausting yourself by then?”

witch. Young and fresh. I haven’t cast many spells in my lifetime, so the odds 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 favor…”

“Sure…”

sure Blade eats? He didn’t eat the food Gamma

“Sure…”

that

him…”

course, I won’t!” I winked at her before

and stepped out of the

room.

♡♡♡

ADAN STONE.

was not

from me and dripped it on the

runes appear and

flew out of her mouth. And I felt air rush out of my lungs. She

with spells and enchantments, but I was sure the first part

this one she was

Blade, and Blade didn’t like it, but the moment she was able

that Blade was not

break.

this was just for the whole territory, why

the shield

from me and Lucy and

other’s blood before she mixed them into

other things I had never

before.

vita in duobus, duo corpora in uno,”

but they didn’t wither. Soon her chants became louder, and the

stood still.

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

it tightly.

spiritus. Da mihi

ligandi. Vna vita

corpora in

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

demon.

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

us. She was

louder than it was paining my ears already.

are you doing?!” I

witch just chanted louder,

even glancing to look at us.

spiritus. Da mihi

ad invicem ligandi. Vna vita in

duo corpora in uno.”

leaves, twigs, and dust arise from

moving toward me

widened. This is not

anymore.

body, and her eyes snapped open, but they were glassy

she were in a

now! I will fucking

my body, but I just couldn’t leave her to

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