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

083 – Queen & King of Kalmerus

PATREA.

I watched as Lucius tried to pacify Alpha Stone. I knew I could easily protect myself, but the last thing I wanted was to hurt the Alpha if he attacked me because he was not the enemy here, so I was thankful Lucius was taking a stand to stop him.

I still had no idea what Lucius had in mind. He never shared his plan – either he didn’t trust me or he had no concrete plan at all. But maybe he just didn’t have time to tell me yet since he only showed up today.

“Not just any demon. I want you to practice taking my form.” Lucius told

Alpha Stone as if he were just telling him to shop for new clothes.

I was trying to keep my silence, but I couldn’t keep it this time. “Are you

planning to bring him to the underworld again and pretend to be you?”

“Relax, I will lay out all the plans

tomorrow, but first we need his memory back. That way he will remember things about the underworld, and I don’t need to spend hours explaining them to him.”

“But how will you bring him there?”

“That’s where you will come in.”

“No. I’m not sending him there, and I don’t think my power or spells can.”

“Think about some of the things my

father told you. He discussed how to

bring other creatures into the underworld.

“Spirits, Lucius! I was stuck there for

decades, and your father visited or

summoned me too many times. I doubt if

I will remember everything he told me.”

“Just try… because I had no way of bringing him there.”

“I’m still here in case you forgot. And don’t you fucking tell me you have plans but no way to bring me back there? What happened to sell your soul to the devil to get there?”

“No, we are not doing it that way?”

“And why?”

“If I die, no other demons can take you out of the demon world. Not even Lucija. You will be stuck out there.” Lucius

explained.

“Are you telling me you are going to die?”

“Who knows? But I didn’t want to take

that risk.”

“So how on fucking earth will I get there?

“Patrea needs to search her memory, and I will try to find other ways. But you need to prepare yourself. We will need to begin training you after you get your memory back. That means I might need you for

two to three days straight away from your

territory with a legitimate excuse so my father doesn’t suspect you’re up to something against him.”

“I can arrange that.” The man behind Alpha Stone spoke. “I’m his Beta. I can hold the fort down while he goes on a

territory check with his Gamma. But then he can’t go with just his Gamma, he

needs to take five to ten men with him.

It’s a pack protocol.”

“I can take them with me, but they will go and check territories without me.” Alpha Stone answered before he pointed to the other man behind him. “I will have Viktor lead them in that case, so we can limit the

people who know about this.”

“We can do that. We can meet again here

tomorrow morning.”

Not in the morning.

my men. After that, you can have me for four to five days

How about the

The current Alpha owed me a favor when I helped him run their pack when Blade left, so I am sure he

his

a fuck who these people are. As

one who brought

put a shield on the

of what Lucy is, but

if Blade is there since

up in his brother’s

Beta’s

witch that helped

can…

palm to stop him from talking. He probably wanted to ask them

well.

Is that the

The Beta answered. “Do

her?”

you know where she

I didn’t know

sarcastically as if

know?” I asked him before shifting my attention back to Alpha Stone. “I’m not sure she knows that I made it back from the underworld, and

who will look for her. We haven’t heard

Lucien.”

know if she is still

bother her anymore because Lucija agreed to send Stone back here

eyes dilated before he blinked and his

Lucy… Did

so low

had his mouth parted but

with my elbow and the moment he looked at me, I mouthed at him

with her, but she’s busy perfecting her skills and power.”

That wasn’t what I meant when I told him to answer him.

he’s a demon,

emotions at all.

for his attention so

your memory, Lucija told

She wanted

so she could

her strength without having to worry about you being used by her father as an outlet for his frustration.

to

kept thinking about you.”

she thinks I’m

kryptonite.”

and she would never forget you. I’m sure everything she’s doing right now is to make sure she will get back to you. The heart never forgets. And I know

because despite not remembering

can see your eyes.

“I’m so fucking useless.”

spirits! I just told him Lucija loved him

why I’m here. I

can’t do it alone.” Lucius

helping her? Us? What do you get from this? I’m sorry, man. I want to trust you,

my father’s daughter. We all just want to survive my father. It’s either we do it separately or together. But there are

out?”

I get to keep the girl, yes, I’m all

granddaughter. As soon as you get any information about her, let us know. Maybe she can help us

I let out a sigh. I didn’t want Lucien to see her. The thought of him taking a fancy to her

jumping in since my Alpha has no memory of

But she did bind Alpha Stone

the territory without any problem, and she looked like she knew what she was doing. She did it in exchange for your freedom from

if she needs

the more powerful witches we can get on our side, the more we can play our father. That’s where Althea will come in. We don’t need to bring her to the underworld. She stays here, because all the while we

cut this conversation

parted in surprise. Was

we talk about

so difficult to

and places you’re mentioning are things I’ve heard about

think the Alpha is right. We can