Beneath Her Darkness: The Alpha's Little Demon by Cassandra M novel Chapter 194

Chapter 042 – 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.

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“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.