BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon
Chapter 90 – 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 f*uc*k about it.
Love is a myth. And people used it to get what they wanted: s*e*x, money, family, and companionship. But in reality, it never exists. It was just a word they used to make women give up their bod*ies for s*e*x 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 K*ll 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 f*uc*king 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.
“You have to wait because if you’re f*uc*king blind, I have a witch in my arms that you knocked off with your power!” I snapped back at him.
“You could have just magically teleported your bod*ies to her room and it would have been done, but of course, you didn’t. Because you’re a f*uc*king pervert who wants to take advantage of her unconscious body.”
“f*uc*k you.” I hissed at him as I doubled my steps on the way up the stairs.
“No, thanks, I will have my own f*uc*k tonight! Now hurry up! We need to 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 him.
“Can you both calm down? We’re all on the same team, so you can’t bite off each other’s heads all the time. It’s not helping. “I heard Kingston say that before I heard footsteps following me on the stairs and into Patrea’s room.
“What do you want now?” I asked him as I kicked the door to open it wider so I could come in.
“I will check on her so you can talk with Alpha Stone.” He answered calmly.
“What do you need to check on her?”
“Just the basics. Make sure she’s just unconscious and not…”
“Stone said she’s alive and just needs to rest. So what are you checking more of?” I didn’t let him finish his words as I snapped at him.
His eyes widened as he raised his palms. and stepped backward out of the door. “I thought I was helping so you could go down and talk with Adan while I made Patrea comfortable in her room.”
“I can do that. Now leave and babysit your f*uc*king Alpha instead.”
Kingston saluted me before turning around without saying anything and walking away with a deep sigh. I knew the Gamma was trying to help, but I didn’t need any right now, and his Alpha was pissing me off.
I carefully placed 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 up anytime soon. I should go and leave her alone, but this was my only time to look at her. I let my knuckles run along her cheek for a few seconds, marveling at the softness of her skin. She’s beautiful. I couldn’t deny that.
I knew the first time I laid eyes on her that my l*st had spiraled out of control. I knew 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 smile and how I felt so accomplished when that smile finally curled on her lips. The l*st was still there, and it was growing every cycle, but aside from that, I was looking forward to her presence. I just wanted to see her all the time.
I didn’t care what she and my father had. I knew I wanted her for myself, but I also wanted her to be happy.
Earlier, she mentioned she was missing the normality in her life.
She wanted a normal life, and the only way she would be able to achieve that was if she could get away from the likes of me.
I had to do everything in my power to make sure she would not be caught in the war I wanted to start. I had to make sure she would come out alive and be able to live the life my father took away from her.
But first, if we both survived this, I would still ask for that one night with her. And then I would let her go and never bother her again. That will 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 she wants.
“You looked like life was s*cked 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 living room.
“What do you mean?” My forehead creased, confused by his words.
“Oh, nothing, forget about it. I forgot that demons don’t have any feelings at all. So, it must be just a face you are showing right now.”
“The f*uc*k are you talking about?” I asked as I sat on the couch on his left.
Stone threw in questions instead of answering. “Tell me more about the cleansing. You told me Lucija had to be f*uc*ked 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 f*uc*k her?” His eyes dilated, but he was surely putting his emotions under total control.
“The real problem here is not me. It’s Guillermo.”
“Get straight to the point!”
“Then shut the f*uc*k up so I can talk!” I hissed. I was already losing my patience, and I was sure I was not the only one. Father wants Guillermo, that’s one of his sons, to f*uc*k Lucija and K*ll her wolf in the process.
Stone growled, and my eyes squinted as I waited for his growling to finish before I continued. “Lucija needs to convince Father to choose me instead of Guillermo.
“No one will touch what’s mine!”
“Relax. I get that. I won’t touch her. I wanted you to take my form so you could roam around the tower freely, but we can use it now for this. All we have to do is get Guillermo out of the way.”
“Then we need to f*uc*king K*ll him.”
“If you think Guillermo is an ordinary demon, he’s not. If Father refuses Lucija’s request to have me instead of Guillermo, we’ll need a backup plan.”
“Just tell me what needs to be done. I will f*uc*king do it, but I want a guarantee no one will touch Lucy!”
“I gave you my word before, and I’m not taking it back. Lucija will always be the priority here. I will make sure she gets out of this unharmed.”
“And unf*uc*ked by anyone but me! Are we f*uc*king clear, Lucius?”
“Yes. But just so you understand, Lucija is a demon. If the worst happens and that thing happens, I’m sure Lucija would be able to move on from it.”
“I don’t care if she’s a demon, an angel, or a f*uc*king statue! She’s f*uc*king mine, and the moment someone vi*olates her, I don’t think I will be able to think straight and go with any f*uc*king plans anymore! I will K*ll everyone around me!”
“Calm down! We’re talking about demons here, not werewolves. I will do my best, so it won’t get to that.”
“Why can’t we just go before the cleansing? Why do we have to wait?”
“Why? Are you ready to go now? Can we gather his best defense and right hand at any time? Do you know how my father works? You have no idea, and yet, you just want to go and do a suicide mission!”
I watched as Stone brushed his palms against his neck before I continued.
“The cleansing is our best chance! My father never lets anyone bother him before any rituals. And that goes for his second in command. Every piece of news and security had to p@ssthrough me at all times during major ritual events like this. This is the only way we can get past the portals safely. If someone notices us, they will get to me, and I can stop it even before it reaches Lucien.”
Adan let out a low growl as he propped his elbows on his knees and palmed his face. “Why is it so f*uc*king hard to have Lucy?”
“Are you giving up now?”
“No. Never.”
I let out a deep sigh and rested my head on the backrest of the couch. I wanted to K*ll my father, but I didn’t want to have many demon casualties. That was the reason I was aiming for the cleansing, so everyone we needed to K*ll was secluded in the ritual cavern.
“When is Althea coming?” I asked after a moment of silence.
“She’s on her way here. She’ll arrive tonight.” His voice was calmer now.
“Does Patrea know she’s arriving?”
“No. We just got the message this morning when we woke up.”
“Do you think she will help us?”
“I think she will unless Patrea stops here.”
“I will deal with Patrea on that.” I stood up from the couch and walked toward the door. “Get up, we need to practice shape-shifting. You need to practice my mannerism as well.”