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. We’ll meet

time to prepare my men. After that, you can

How about the

His brother is the current Alpha after he turned his back on his pack. The current Alpha owed me a favor when I helped him run their pack when Blade left, so I am sure he won’t refuse if I ask

his land.”

a fuck who these people are. As long as you trust

the one who brought

that put a shield on the territory.

is aware of what Lucy is, but

is there since

up in

I listened to the Beta’s words. Did he

helped

can…

He probably

well.

that

Beta answered. “Do you

her?”

granddaughter. Do you know

How come I didn’t know

if

back to Alpha Stone. “I’m not sure she knows that I made it back from the underworld, and I haven’t

way there before you stopped us to meet someone who will look for her. We haven’t heard from her since she left the territory

Lucien.”

still alive?”

because Lucija agreed to send Stone

Alpha’s eyes dilated before he

Lucy… Did

so low as if he didn’t

My eyes darted to Lucius, who had his mouth parted but wasn’t saying anything, just looking at Alpha

with my elbow and the moment he looked at

busy perfecting her skills and power.” He said it

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

a demon,

emotions at all.

his attention so he would look at me. “Before

your memory, Lucija

She wanted you out

so she could focus

about you being used by her father as an outlet for his frustration.

to concentrate

kept thinking about you.”

thinks I’m

kryptonite.”

and she would never forget you. I’m sure everything she’s doing right now

because despite not remembering

see your eyes.

“I’m so fucking useless.”

him

here. I need your

can’t do it

this? I’m sorry, man. I want to trust you, but you are

just want to survive my father. It’s either we do it

out?”

my memory back, and I get to keep the girl,

Patrea’s granddaughter. As soon as you get any information about her, let us know. Maybe she

this.” I let out a sigh. I didn’t want Lucien to see her. The thought of

Beta butted in. “Sorry, I keep jumping in since

did bind

freedom from the underworld. And now that you’re here, I am assuming Lucy did that. And if

on her if she

come in. We don’t need to bring her to the underworld. She stays here, because all the while we do our plans, I am sure my father will

this conversation

in surprise. Was he changing

we talk about this once

It’s so

to do when all the names and places you’re mentioning are things I’ve heard about but have

is