BRAVING THE DARKNESS: One Night With The Demon King
BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon Book 2
Chapter 42 – The Alpha’s Little Witch
BLADE
Althea kept pacing back and forth. At first, I didn’t mind, but I was beginning to get irritated with the way she kept moving in front of me, and my eyes couldn’t stop following her. If I had my way, I would pull her onto my lap and tie her up around me.
“Can you stop doing that?” I spoke in a low voice, as I did my best not to show how her moving around bothered me already.
“Waiting for the unknown is killing me. I don’t know how you can just stay still there for a long time like you’re not even breathing.” She snapped at me. “Did you forget I’m a mercenary? I can stay here for days and you won’t even know I’m here.”
“Are you not worried about what’s happening out there?” She asked, ignoring my words.
“No. I know they can handle them.” But the truth was, I was not worried, not yet, because she was safe here with me.
The rest of them were demons. I was sure if they died, they could find ways to revive themselves, but Althea could not, so it was better if we stayed here.
“Look at this.” Her words snapped me from my thoughts, and I saw her holding a big, black fabric. She slipped her hand under it, and the fabric disappeared along with the portion of her hand.
“What the f*uc*k is that?” I growled as I stood up from my seat.
“I think it’s Patrea’s invisible cloak. Let me try.”
“Althea!” I wanted to stop her, but she was already wrapping it around her, and then she was gone in front of me.
“Althea!” I growled as my heart thudded loudly. Sweat formed on my forehead as I swiveled my body around looking for any signs of her but there was nothing.
“Stop with your jokes and come back here!” I growled one more time.
“Hi…” She spoke softly, and I felt a breath running along my arm.
Althea was shorter, so I knew she was just beside me. I carefully raised my arm and tried to snake it around her body, but I only grasped air.
“What the f*uc*k?” I cursed under my breath before turning around.
“Hi!” She suddenly appeared in front of me, and my body jerked back so much that I almost lost my footing.
“Althea!” I growled, and I would have snapped angrily at her if I hadn’t seen the smile that curled on her lips — her first smile for me in the underworld. “Don’t do that again.”
“I didn’t know I was capable of scaring the big bad wolf.” She joked, her eyebrows hiking up while her eyes flitted with mischievousness
She had no idea she was the only one who could scare me at this point in my life.
“I think we should go to where they are. I don’t want to wait anymore.” She added.
“With the cloak as our only weapon? Are you insane?”
“You have no idea how insane I am.” “Althea stopped there. I’m not letting you out of this room.”
“I just want to make sure Patrea and Lucy are safe.”
“And what can you do if they’re not?”
“I don’t know. But if you don’t want to come with me, then I will go alone. I’m not just going to stay here and wait until this place is taken over. Imagine if Lucy dies, as well as all of them. We will be stuck here with a new king. What do you think they will do to us? Of course, I’m sure you can take all the punishment, but I don’t think I will survive if they beat me or abuse me.”
“Enough…” I growled, and this time I didn’t stop myself from grabbing her. My hand snaked into her back as I pushed her body closer so roughly that her front slammed against mine.
I heard her curse softly, but I didn’t mind as I wrapped my arms around her. She was right. I could take all the things they could do to me, but I was not going to watch them abuse Althea. Not in this realm or any other realms.
“But we need to make sure we are safe before we go there,” I told her, trying my best to soften my voice so she would not use the cloak and run away from me.
“This cloak will help us. Patrea and Lucy told me anyone wearing this could not be detected or scented by demons. We can go to where they are, and then we can watch in silence If anything goes bad, we will help.” “But if they can handle it, we will just watch. Is that clear, Althea?”
She nodded her head as she pulled her body away from me. If anything, at least she was not resisting me at the moment.
“Patrea will lose focus if she realizes you are there.”
“I’m not a kid, Blade.”
“I don’t want any harm coming your way.”
“Will it hurt you if something happens to me?” She asked, her eyes staring directly at me. Her question caught me off-guard.
“I mean, your wolf will be devastated, right?” She turned around and began shaking or dusting off the cloak before she changed the subject.
“It’s too big. It should be able to cover you.”
I took the cloak from her hand and clasped her hand with mine before walking with her toward the double door. I knew there would be demons guarding outside, and I had no idea how we would talk with them, so it was better if we slipped out.
But I had no f*uc*king idea where we were or how we would get out of this palace.
Althea opened the door, and the demons hissed and began speaking in their language. My mouth opened and closed. How the f*uc*k do I speak with them? But if the demon who spoke with Lucius earlier could deliver his news in human language, maybe they could as well.
“Human tongue? Speak human?” I was gesturing with my hand for them to speak, but I couldn’t understand their words until Althea began speaking in a language I had never heard of and the demon nearest to her began speaking with her.
My forehead creased because I looked f*uc*king stupid trying to make them talk my language, and this little witch behind me was doing it flawlessly. “Put it over us. He will bring us to where they are.” She pointed at the cloak in my hand when she finally spoke to me.
“How did you do it?”
“I used a witch translator. Plus, they were asked to guard the chamber, but they were not asked to stop us from going out. And with a little charm, he agreed to take us there.” She smiled at me before speaking to the demon again and then returning her gaze to me.
“We need to hold him so he can take us both there.”
“You didn’t promise him anything? Like your f*uc*king body or…”
“What? I didn’t…” She glared at me.
‘I f*uc*king swear to the Goddess if you trade yourself for this…
“Shut it, Blade. I’m not stupid. Can you trust me for once?”
I took a deep breath and just shut my mouth. “Put it over you, and then I’ll stand in front of you…” I didn’t allow her to finish before I scooped her up and carried her in one arm.
“What are you doing?” She asked, but her arms coiled around my neck.
“We will trip if we need to walk and you’re in front of me. If you expect me to make baby steps so I won’t fall on you, then you’re crazy. We will eventually blow up our disguise. It’s better that I carry you and you hold the cloak in place.”
“I’m heavy. You might get tired,” she said, but her eyes were avoiding mine while the demons around us were gawking at us as if they had never seen anyone carrying a female like this.
“Trust me, baby. I won’t get tired.” I was not able to stop myself from saying that, but it felt so good, although I did my best not to grin so she wouldn’t get upset that I called her that.
“Fine. Let’s do this,” she said.
I helped her put the cloak over us, and it suddenly felt like we were in our own world as the air we breathed was each other’s breath. She nodded her head at me, and we slipped our hands outside the cloak. She touched the demon’s shoulder, and I placed my hand over hers while still touching the demon.
I wanted to make sure he would bring us to the same place because, as much as I was thankful for the help, I didn’t trust anyone, especially a demon, when it came to Althea.
I was still lost in my own thoughts when, without warning, my body was sucked into limbo. “Mother f*uc*ker!” I growled the moment my feet touched the ground.
Althea immediately pressed her cheek against my lips to stop me from growling more since her hands were tightly gripping the cloak.
As much as the transport annoyed me, I couldn’t help but smile at her gesture, so I began kissing her cheek. She pulled away and glared at me before she mouthed that we needed to focus on the battle.
I just shrugged my shoulders and nodded my head, suppressing my smile this time before I let my eyes roam the entire ground.
Shit!
This was no joke. I’d been to hundreds of battles and attacks, but it never looked like this. Everywhere was f*uc*king fire, and it was only then that I felt my skin perspiring from the heat like I was being roasted.
“No!” Althea screamed, and the cloak went off our bodies as she jumped out of my arms.
Patrea’s body was burning as it fell from the heavens. But I couldn’t see all of her as a number of demons were already heading our way.
My wolf, even without my command, pushed his way out, and I just let him. In seconds, I was already on my paws, baring my teeth at the demons who were aiming for Althea.
I kept ripping their bodies, but they kept forming new ones, and I was so f*uc*king annoyed already until I realized the ball of fire heading my way just kept bouncing off.
Althea had enveloped me in a shield while she was also protecting Patrea. I wanted to stop her because soon it would take all her energy, but I also knew I needed her more than ever because there was no f*uc*king way I would survive these fires without her shield.
“Althea, let go of Blade’s shield.” Lucy told her, and my little mate just kept shaking her head as she continued to chant her spells while Patrea’s body floated in the air. My heart warmed at her gesture.. She wanted to protect me. But I had no idea how long before she would collapse from using too much energy, and the shield was already weakening. The fire was still bouncing, but not as much as earlier.
“Take it off, Althea. I’m putting a shield on Blade and all of us.” Lucy said it louder, and the moment Althea nodded her head, my first shield disappeared before a new one emerged, and this time it was stronger.
“Claw and crush their hearts, or they will keep coming back to life!” Stone yelled, and I nodded my wolf’s head because I was f*uc*king sure the message was for me. I transformed back to my human form and began leaping in the air, lunging at demons with my bare hands and clawing their hearts directly while making sure I could still see Althea in my peripherals.
It didn’t take long before Patrea’s body was almost within reach. And at that exact moment that my gaze darted to her. her body jolted forward as if she was gasping for air while her eyes were blazing red.
She was alive.
And my heart calmed down.
I was worried the whole time that she was dead and about what would happen to Althea if she was.