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

003 – Wolves or Demons?
LUCY.

“What are you doing?” Manuel’s eyes squinted as his gaze fell everywhere in my small, messy room while Stella was holding his arms to stop him from stepping inside.

“I’m looking for some of my money. But I found it already. I just misplaced it.” I answered nonchalantly as I began picking up my clothes from the floor and began folding them.

“Stop with your lies. Were you in the kitchen earlier?”

“What kind of question is that? Of course. I’ve been everywhere in this house. What’s going on?” I turned around and placed my hands on my hips as I tapped my foot on the wooden floor, my eyes shifting back and forth between them as if I was impatient to hear their replies.

“Nothing, dear. I need help with dinner. Can you come down and give this old lady a hand before the pups come and attack me from hunger?” Stella spoke sweetly, but I saw worry and concern in her eyes.

Something was about to happen.

“Sure. I’ll just pick all these up and throw them on my bed, then I’ll go down. Just five minutes.”

“Okay.” She smiled widely as she tugged her mate away from my room, but Manuel was still looking at me. And I knew that the look he was giving me – he didn’t believe a word I said. He knew I was up to something.

To hell with him.

The moment the door closed, I grabbed the backpack from under the blanket and locked my door before I pulled my window up and scouted the grounds below. The locked door would buy me some time if they decided to come back and check on me.

My bedroom faced the back of the orphanage, but two floors down was one of the receiving rooms, the one often used for guests. If there was no one in there, no one would see me jumping down from baluster to baluster.

This was not the first time I jumped and crawled out of my bedroom window, so I didn’t have to be terrified about falling. I just needed not to be seen.

I swung the backpack over my shoulders and climbed out of the window. My hands clutched my window sill as I swung my foot down until I reached the upper doorframe of the room below mine. I used it as leverage and pushed my body up to jump, landing perfectly on the balcony of the old library that no one visited except for me.

I dusted off my hands and checked if there were lights in the receiving room down below, and my heart dropped in disappointment when I saw lights illuminating the window.

I bit my bottom lip, chewing it as I thought of my next move when a voice from the top snapped me out of my thoughts.

“She’s running away!” Manuel’s voice erupted in the thin air, making me snap my head back and I saw him pointing at me from my window.

to think as I jumped off the balcony from the second floor and landed on

window and my eyes locked with a tall man with a long beard. His forehead creased, but I didn’t have time to analyze him as

at a pace that was too fast for my usual run. It reminded me of the speed I

have been running fast, but it was nothing compared to

were thudding against the earth, and the sound kept getting louder as I kept

hanging on my neck. I just needed

need to be

or demons? Make your choice,

fell to my side as the wolves behind me overtook my run and ended

thrown back in an instant. My ass hit the ground with a loud thud before my back

I

closed and my chest heaving. I wondered if my small backpack was enough to protect

heard shuffling and I knew they must be shifting back

see a bulky naked man looking down at me with

still, wondering if I would be able to function

“What’s your name?”

at them, looking down at me, but had no intention of replying. My

listening earlier? Lucy. Her name is Lucy.” The bulky

so if I tilted my face in his direction, I was sure I would see the thing he wanted to show off. “Listen. We will take you and prepare you

don’t want to be part of the Feast.” I blurted

little Omega. And if you try

you trying to

tell you

⇜ ♡♡♡ ⇝

The men who caught me just threw me into the car that followed us

them, and he blatantly told them that I was stubborn and that they needed to watch out for me

crossed against my chest as the man he talked with assured him that I was not the first case like this, and they knew what to

be terrified, but I wasn’t. I have seen far worse with my young eyes while I was in the underworld than the things around here. Nothing

I needed to pretend that I was. Or they might find out that I was not an

men inside the car with me were in full silence. So I took it as an invitation to rest