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

090 – Love Is A Myth

LUCIUS.

I got bored waiting while they were eating, so I began to taunt Adan. But I

couldn’t use fire since I wasn’t sure if

Lucien was watching his fiber, so I used other weapons instead.

Adan was surely improving, and he knew what he was doing. He was practically the exact counterpart of Lucija — he learned just as fast as her.

I needed him so he could fight off the rest of the demons while Lucija and I tackled our father. But from the way he

summoned fire as if he owned them and how strong they were, I was sure he could fight off Guillermo and maybe even Lucien.

I didn’t know he could be that strong

after such a short period. I wasn’t lying

when I said that hatred and the desire to

hurt the other party involved making a demon’s power stronger

but I wasn’t

expecting him to go all out just after a day of training him.

It took me decades to learn how to fire

multiple fireballs, but he was able to do it within 24 hours. In my defense, I was young then, and despite being a demon, I didn’t have any energy to let my anger out. I was just hoping to survive then and was going with the flow, so that might be the reason it took time for me to learn how to summon multiple fireballs.

But Stone- it’s either that he had hatred brewing inside him for so long or he hated me to a hilt and was just good at hiding it. Or he was really into Lucija, and the thought of anyone touching her made him angry and hateful.

For a moment I thought he was about to

transform into a demon by the way his

eyes blazed red and the black veins that began crawling on his skin.

Was it their mate bond that made him release that strong energy? Was that love? I’d heard of love, but I never gave a fuck about it.

Love is a myth. And people used it to get what they wanted: sex, money, family, and companionship. But in reality, it

never exists. It was just a word they used to make women give up their bodies for sex or for men to follow them around like lovesick puppies.

“Be grateful that Patrea saved you. Taunt me one more time about touching Lucy’s body, and you will not have a way out.” Adan was on my tail as I carried Patrea’s unconscious body inside the cottage.

The multiple shields she let out drained her energy. Another proof that Stone’s

fireballs were too strong.

“You know you can’t kill me with those fire. You just took me by surprise.” I told him as I continued walking.

“Yeah, tell that to Hades! Now explain about that thing you said about Lucija!” Stone was snapping at me, and if Patrea were not in my arms, I probably would have had his neck broken by now.

If he thought being an Alpha made him superior to me, he was a fucking idiot. If he were not the only reason that kept Lucija off the throne, I would never tolerate him at all, and I knew the feeling was mutual.

to wait because if

witch in my arms that you knocked off with

your bodies to her room and it

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of course, you didn’t. Because you’re

unconscious body.”

you.” I hissed at

the way up the

talk!” He didn’t follow after me and instead slumped his body on the couch in the living room while I was still fuming mad at

off each other’s heads all the time. It’s not helping. “I heard Kingston say that before I

as I kicked

on her so you

Stone.” He answered

you need to check on

Make sure

she’s alive and just needs to rest. So what are you checking more of?” I

snapped at him.

door. “I thought I was helping so you could go down and talk with Adan while

can do that. Now leave and babysit

turning around without

away with a deep sigh. I knew

any right now, and his Alpha

Patrea in her bed and tucked her inside the blanket. I watched her chest rise and fall; it let me know she was just sleeping and might wake

her. I let my knuckles run along her cheek for a few seconds, marveling at

I

wanted a taste of her. But that was before. Now all I could think about was how her mouth twitched when she tried to suppress a

when that smile

on her lips. The lust was still there, and it was growing every cycle, but aside from that, I was looking forward to

care what she and my father had. I knew I wanted her for myself, but I also

missing

life, and the only way she would be able to achieve that was if she could get away from the likes of

sure she would not be caught in the war I wanted to start. I had to make sure she would come out

ask for that one night with her. And then I

her again.

also mean that Lucija will never find out who the queen was that I had in mind because Patrea would never agree to be one. I will never be able to give her the normal life

out of you.” Stone’s words snapped me back to the present. I didn’t even realize I left Patrea’s room and gone back to the

room.

mean?” My forehead creased,

forgot that demons don’t have any feelings at

about?” I asked as I sat on the couch on his

threw in questions instead

about the cleansing. You told me Lucija had to be fucked by demons, but it will not get to that because we will stop it before it happens. And now you’re telling me you need to fuck her?” His eyes dilated, but he was surely

is not me.

straight to the

patience, and I was sure I was not the only

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my eyes squinted as I waited for his growling to finish before

me instead of

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will touch