Beneath Her Darkness: The Alpha's Little Demon

Book 2

Chapter 1 – The Nightmares

PATREA.

I was naked. Blood was trailing down my thighs, but I ignored it, even if the pain was coursing through my whole body.

My feet were tired from running, and my chest was heaving from panting, but I kept springing forward. I had no idea what creature was running after me, but I knew I needed to get away.

“Aaaaah!” I screamed when my body fell into a black hole, and my stomach churned as I tried to grab something to hold on to.

But there was nothing.

I was falling endlessly, and I just wished for my body to crash somewhere, even if it meant death.

Death was better than not knowing when the falling would end.

“Patrea! Patrea!” I heard a female’s voice calling for me, making me f0rce my eyes to snap open. I found myself staring into the dark purple eyes of my granddaughter.

“You’re having another bad dream…” Althea, my eighteen-year-old granddaughter, helped me sit up from lying down before she took a glass of water from my bedside table and gave it to me.

I remained silent as I gulped the water until the glass was empty. My chest was heaving, and my feet felt tired as if I were really running. I knew it was just a nightmare, but it seemed real, especially since I could feel the soreness in my body.

Althea stood up, took a small towel from my dresser, and wiped the sweat off my forehead. “Do you want me to sleep beside you?”

“No. Go back to your room. You have classes tomorrow, so you need to sleep.”

She sighed as she sat sideways on the edge of my bed, staring at the window in front of her. “We need to find a solution for your nightmares, Mama. I doubt you ever sleep at all, and the moment you do, you always end up screaming in your sleep.”

“I’m sorry, I keep waking you up.”

“It’s not me. It’s you and whatever you are seeing in those dreams. Maybe we should reach out to the coven, I’m sure they can find a way.”

“The problem is me, Althea. I can’t seem to forget that part and it haunts me even in my sleep.”

“Let me tamper with your mind then. Just teach me what to do, so we can erase that part.”

“And what will happen after? My mind will go back to almost thirty years ago? I won’t remember you. I won’t remember Lucy and little Aiden. And I will surely suffer if I remember that I’m pregnant and I have no baby and no husband at all.” I let out a deep breath and rested my back on the headboard. ” Tampering with my mind will just create more problems.”

I knew what

for my granddaughter’s arm and rubbed my palm gently on it. “Go sleep, and maybe I can ask

“Or Lucius,” Althea added.

his kingdom,

what to do.” Althea said softly before tilting her head and meeting my gaze. “Don’t you think Lucien had something to do with these nightmares? That the moment he set you free, he

me to do something for him because his power prevented him from performing it, only for him to come back and show me a different kind of

be voided? Like how most of

doesn’t work like that with demons. Their contracts are binding even after

talk with Lucius. The nightmares have to stop, Mama.” Althea was being stubborn. “I can

not that knowledgeable when it comes to demon illusions and lies. If you can’t talk to Lucius, then I will.” “No.

Are you

I explain to her that I was afraid Lucius would end up liking her and

creatures,”

it.” She smiled at me before she stood up from my bed and bent down to press a kiss on my forehead. ” Goodnight,

nodded my head and smiled at her as I watched

but I doubt if he would appear since he missed

with

opened the main light of my bedroom before I stood up in front of the

just in my mid-twenties. Nobody would believe me if I told them I was nearly three decades older than

it didn’t mean

I could still drop dead if I were stabbed in the heart, shot in the head, or run over by a

Foster now. I am a

I was lured by a demon to give up my body

of the high sisters of our coven. But

I wanted more.

a king of one of the four regions of the underworld. All I knew was, he

So I agreed.

trapped in the underworld, and

no plans

Lucien did something to my body that made me adapt to the Underworld, and in turn, it made me age

given me, this was it. Now that I was free from the underworld with the help of Lucy and Lucius, Lucien’s

my life back with my granddaughter, Althea, whom I introduced as my sister to avoid any questions and suspicions if

far, everything has

worked as an academic librarian at one of the universities in this city. I might not have the full knowledge of this work, but there’s nothing that a few spells and magic couldn’t solve. And this work allowed me a moment of peace where I could be on my

the first time. My granddaughter had lived most of her life in the mountains, where her mother, my daughter, had kept her from the

we wanted with our lives. The only one missing was Adora. My daughter, Althea’s mother, but I knew that wherever