Chapter 57


    BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha’s Little Demon Chapter 57


    057 – de


    GAMMA KINGSTON.


    I knew something was off when the witch raised an invisible barrier that prohibited us from entering the


    ruin where she was performing her rituals. And I couldn’t even mindlink my Alpha, but I tried to keep


    calm. Maybe I was just not familiar with witches and their spells. If my Alpha trusted her, then I should


    too.


    But the moment Alpha Stone flinched from his position and anger shed in his eyes, I knew something


    went wrong. The Alpha didn’t like what was going on. I began to m my body against the shield, and


    soon de and the other warriors with us were doing the same thing.


    We all looked like fucking lunatics trying to crush an invisible wall we couldn’t even see.


    But nothing we did could shatter it. It was too strong, and even if we all mmed our


    bodies on it at the same time, it didn’t break.


    “Put the fucking shield down!” de was roaring, shaking the ground as he kept pounding his fists


    against the barrier while his eyes were fixated on the witch, who I didn’t notice until now. Her body was


    convulsing as blood trickled down her nose.


    “What the fuck is happening?” I growled, and the warriors around me were expressing


    the same sentiments.


    If Alpha Stone’s reaction earlier bothered


    me, it was nothingpared to what I was feeling at the moment. My eyes widened as my jaw


    dropped open the moment I saw fire engulf the Alpha and Lucy. I was fucking terrified they would burn


    and that it was a message that hell wasing.


    ‘Collin, Alpha Audrius!’ I sent a mindlink to the two men who were left at the packhouse. ‘Issue a high


    alert on all borders and double the number of patrollers around unmanned territory borders. Lucy let


    out a fire.’


    I went straight to the point. We already discussed previously that ‘Lucy let out a fire’ or something


    simr only meant one thing: Lucien might show up anytime now.


    ‘Is the shield up?’ Alpha Audrius asked, and I


    didn’t know what to say.


    ‘I had no idea, we are unable to talk to the witch right now. I guess we will find out


    soon.’


    ‘Then let’s move as if the shield does not


    exist. Where is Adan?’


    ‘With Lucy.’ How could I tell them the Alpha was burning? Fuck!


    ‘Okay. Keepmunication open.’ Alpha


    Audrius stated.


    ‘Noted, Alpha.’ Both Collin and I answered in


    unison before the link closed.


    My eyes darted back to the Alpha at the exact


    moment I felt like water was sshing out as the shield shattered and just disappeared. I didn’t waste


    any time and rushed to where


    Adan and Lucy were.


    “Tell Lucy to take out the fire!” I yelled to the Alpha, as I took off my shirt and tried to put out the fire on


    their bodies using my shirt, but it was useless.


    “I’ve been trying to!” Adan snapped at me, and it was only then that I realized he was still standing still


    with Lucy in his arms as if the fire wasn’t burning him.


    I moved my hand closer to the fire, only to pull it back in an instant. “The fuck!” It was fucking hot, but


    how was Adan still standing and not burning?


    “Lucy… baby. Your fire hurt Kingston.” Adan was talking to her in a voice totally different from the way


    he snapped at me, but it


    worked.


    Soon, the fire was gone. Lucy and Adan were right in front of me without any burns or damage, as if


    the fire earlier was just a


    figment of my imagination.


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    BLADE.


    I came with them to the ruin with no


    expectations. I just wanted to get over and done with this, and maybe Althea would decide to go back


    to the mountains, and I would take her there without any questions.


    I wanted her out of here before the full


    moon. Because as much as I never killed just for fun or out of annoyance, I might end up doing that if


    someone else other than me


    tried to satiate her heat.


    I was not sure if witches would emit a heat


    scent as she-wolves during their heat. But I


    was one hundred percent sure she would go


    into heat.


    What if her heat scent came around? Adan


    was not marked, and with many unmated wolves checking her out, she might give in and spend her


    heat with them.


    And the thought alone was making me furious and fucking insecure.


    Because she never wanted me.


    Before she came, I couldn’t care less if no one found me attractive. I lost my mate


    many years ago and had learned to shut off


    any emotions.


    No females, no pains.


    And I was okay with that. But then the Goddess knew how to torture an already


    dead soul. She sent me a new mate, someone


    that would ignite the fire within me, but the fucking thing was, she sent someone twelve years younger


    than me.


    How could a young, free-spirited female end up liking someone like me? 4


    And what will I do with a pup? Was she meant to be my mate or my child?


    But no matter how many times I told myself I would reject her, I couldn’t do it.


    Something kept pulling me back to her.


    “I’ll stay here. I’m not leaving the ruins.” I


    crossed my arms against my chest and


    remained on my spot as I looked ahead. I


    wanted to make sure she was just within reach if something happened.


    “Of course, you will. I don’t need another


    soul in here except for Alpha Stone and Lucy. “Her hand went to my forearm, but she withdrew right


    away.


    Did she feel the sparks? Because I did, and it


    was making my fucking knees weak. It had been years since I felt it, and I had forgotten how it felt. But


    instead of my previous mate, it was Althea wrapped up in my arms that suddenly shed in my head.


    Was I doing the wrong thing? Shouldn’t I be honoring the memory of my mate? Was this my fault


    because I no longer spent my nights thinking of her? Althea had upied my thoughts since the day I


    saw her.


    “I don’t have a soul,” I snapped at her,


    trying to mask the real emotions that her


    touch had given me.


    “Ha ha,” she feigned augh before rolling


    her eyes at me. “Please, de. I’ll do


    whatever you want after this, just get off the ruins now. I need to get started as soon as possible while


    the spirits are still within me, or it will take too much of my energy to summon them again.”


    She looked desperate, and something in her eyes was pleading with me to just trust her


    this time.


    “Whatever I want? You can’t back down on


    that.” I told her in a low voice before turning


    my back on her and walking away from the building.


    The moment my foot stepped into the fresh


    earth, I felt a jolt push me further, and I moved forward. And then a big sh came at


    the exact moment I turned around to see


    what was happening.


    And before I knew it, the little witch had


    already built an invisible barrier separating us from her. I growled as I mmed my fist into it, but it


    didn’t do anything.


    My eyes met Althea’s and I was expecting


    her to re at me, but she just ced a finger against her lips, silencing me. And I couldn’t help but


    focus on her slightly


    pouted, plump lips, and think of the many things I could do with them.


    Fuck!


    I backed away from the barrier and stood at a safe distance behind Kingston and his warriors. My dick


    was fucking painful, and I


    was sure it would take a while before it


    would calm down.


    I was not even sure if Althea was doing this on purpose because her every move felt like she was


    seducing me, only to leave me hanging like a fucking teenager with a boner.


    I closed my eyes and steadied my breathing. I was too old for this. I shouldn’t be letting an 18-year-old


    make me feel like this. 1


    Althea began her ceremony, and everything was ordinary until I noticed a slight shakeing off her


    hands. The first ritual didn’t shake any part of her body. Was it really part


    of this?


    My eyes darted to Stone and he looked like he was panicking as he pulled Lucy into her


    arms. Lucy looked like she was also


    convulsing.


    What the fuck was happening?


    My heart pounded inside my chest as my


    shifted between Stone and Althea.


    gaze


    Only then did I realize I couldn’t actually hear anything that was happening on the


    other side of the barrier.


    I stepped forward at the same time Kingston did, and we ended up mming our arms on


    the barrier wanting to break it. He was


    cursing, and so was I.


    “Put the fucking shield down!” I roared, trembling the ground below, but no matter how hard I pounded


    on the shield, it refused


    to break.


    Althea’s nose began to trickle with blood. It was too much blood, and the memory of


    losing my mate right before my very eyes came shing back.


    No! No! Not Althea!


    My eyes watered as I mmed the barrier the hardest, but it wasn’t doing anything. I moved to the


    other side, where I could only see Althea’s back, and began mming there.


    The whole globe on which she set the barrier was engulfed in a tornado of dry leaves and dust, and


    soon I could no longer see anything inside.


    And then a fire glowed from the middle but I couldn’t see everything.


    “Althea!” I bellowed, shaking the ground again, and all of a sudden, a big sh


    appeared in front of me, and the barrier


    shattered like broken ss, but no debris fell on the ground.


    I rushed forward and caught Althea just before she hit the ground.


    “No! No! No!” I kept mumbling, crouching while holding Althea’s upper body. I could hear her faint


    heartbeat, but she was lying unconscious in my arms with too much blooding from her nose.


    “Althea… wake up…” I was begging, and my voice was breaking as I wiped the blood off her face using


    the torn fabric from my shirt.


    Her body jolted, and my hold on her tightened while my eyes widened. I let out a breath of relief, only to


    panic again the


    moment she gasped for air and began coughing.


    “Can’t breathe…” She was flinging her


    hands around.


    I caught them before I tilted her upper body into a sitting position as I crouched in front of her, my


    hands holding her arms as I tried to catch her eyes. “Breathe easy, breathe


    with me…”


    Althea looked lost, but she followed my lead, and soon she was breathing at a slow pace at


    the same rhythm as mine. My hand went to cup her cheek, caressing it gently with my thumb as we


    continued breathing in sync


    with each other.


    “You’ll be okay…” I told her, but it felt like I was trying to pacify myself.


    She closed her eyes and nodded her head. I didn’t waste any more time. I scooped her petite body off


    the ground and carried her in bridal style, ready to take her away from this ce, when Stone walked


    toward me, tugging Lucy behind him.


    “I need your help, de.”


    “No. I will only look after Althea.”


    “I know that, but take Lucy with you to the


    packhouse. I have warriorsing with you,


    I just need to go to the border with Kingston. Collin is meeting you halfway.”


    “Did my father arrive?” Lucy asked.


    “No. I just want to make sure the security is


    up.”


    Stone was lying. I knew him well enough to know when he was lying or not. The ufortable way his


    upper lip twitched and his refusal to meet Lucy’s eyes gave him


    away.


    Lucy’s father had arrived.


    “Go, now. I’ll be at the packhouse in thirty minutes.” Stone cupped the she-demon’s face, kissing her


    briefly before pushing her to my side. “de, I trust you.”


    I nodded my head and signaled the three warriors around us to start moving. One of


    them held Lucy’s arm and guided her to


    move. “Luna, we have to go.”