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 for help from Lucy. Maybe she knows what

“Or Lucius,” Althea added.

if he even cares. He’s busy running his kingdom, so I doubt if he has time

before tilting her head and meeting my gaze. “Don’t you think Lucien had

would come and ask me to do something

if he died already, shouldn’t it be voided? Like how most of the witch’s

are binding even after death, and so are all

to stop, Mama.” Althea was being stubborn. “I can

knowledgeable when it comes to demon illusions and lies. If you can’t talk to Lucius, then I will.”

you scared

was afraid Lucius would end up liking her and entice her to the underworld in exchange

are devious creatures,” I told

either you do it or I will do it.” She smiled at me before she stood up from my bed and bent down to press a kiss on

and smiled at her

if he would appear since he missed all the previous occasions that were important to Lucy, including

insisted on talking with him, there was no way

the moment Althea left, and I opened the main light of my bedroom before I stood up in front

Nobody would believe me if

But it didn’t

still me. Nothing special, just the fact that I would never age again. But I could still drop dead if

Patrea Dorgan, but I go by Patrea Foster now. I

demon to give up my body to him in exchange for acquiring more

I wanted to rise through the ranks and become one of the high sisters of our coven. But I was just me, nothing special, and I had

I wanted more.

obsession. I had no idea he was a king of one of the four regions of the

So I agreed.

trapped in the underworld, and I had no way out except if he would allow

had no plans

a place that no human being with a living soul should ever experience. Lucien did something to my body that made me adapt to the Underworld, and in turn, it made me age slower until I stopped

Now that I was free from the underworld with the help of Lucy and Lucius, Lucien’s offspring, I came back to the human realm just as I had

as my sister to avoid any questions

everything has

a few spells and magic couldn’t solve. And this work allowed me

the other hand, was attending school for the first time. My granddaughter had lived most of her life in the mountains, where her mother, my daughter, had kept her from the public eye

free to do whatever we wanted with our lives. The only one missing was Adora. My daughter, Althea’s mother, but I knew that wherever she is, she must be happy that Althea and I