Chapter 032 - Althea at 19 ALTHEA.

I told Lucy I didn’t need to celebrate my nineteenth birthday.

I was used to having nothing, and with Patrea in the underworld, there was really no sense in celebrating.

But Lucy was not one to be swayed.

So here I was, surrounded by people I met at the university, in a big private hall within the campus grounds where Lucy held the surprise party for me.

Lucy and Adan were here.

And so was little Aiden, with Lucy’s opal ring hanging around his neck.

Patrea and I had fixed her ring a few weeks back so that anyone wearing it would be able to suppress his or her demon fire.

This was the only way they could take little Aiden out in public, as he loved playing with fire when something fascinated him.

Patrea also made it tonight.

She was here with Lucius.

If I assumed before that the demon king was interested in her, I could guarantee now that he was totally smitten with her, as every time I looked at Lucius, his eyes were always on my grandmother, even though he was having a conversation with Alpha Adan.

As for my grandmother, well, if I was expecting asad and stressed Patrea, I would be disappointed because she looked like she was the happiest she’d ever been.

I asked her how it was in the underworld, and I waited for her to say how she felt uncomfortable there and tell me about Nyneve, but the only thing that came out of her lips was everything about Lucius and how he had shown her Kalmerus from a different perspective.

I could sense she was thriving there.

I was happy for her, but in secret, my heart was clenching in pain.

Was this a sign that I could possibly lose her to the demon king for good? Of course, if that would make her happy, then I had nothing against it.

It's just that I wish I could still have more time with her.

But I would never get in the way of her happiness.

If anyone deserved that after everything she went through, it was Patrea.

And it didn’t matter to me anymore if only a demon could give her that happiness, as long as he could take care of her, which looked like what Lucius had been doing.

"Happy birthday again, baby girl!"

Patrea greeted me from behind, her arms snaking around my body as she hugged me.I rested my back against her chest and clutched the arms wrapped around me, squeezing them gently.

"I’m so glad you made it here.

I was worried you wouldn’t be able to come.

Not that I would be upset, but with the danger you’re in...

her presence.Patrea’s arms around

and once we can figure out how to capture Nyneve, I will be

be happy to be back here?"

"What do you mean?"

miss

"Who says that?"

brushed her

eyes say it

I teased her.

widened at my words, and she began saying something, but my heart suddenly

sorry, Mama.What did

cheeks burning, as T really didn't hear

you okay?" she asked instead of

went to my chest, trying to keep my heart from going overboard because it felt like it would

to calm my heart when a noise came from the other side of the room, where some

and my eyes widened in disbelief at

Blade.

He came.

I didn’t invite him, and Adan said

voice came from behind me as she

want me to tell him to go? I’m sure we

even

"Are you sure?"

Patrea asked.

me to dance if Blade talks with me so I

was gone beside me,

didn’t want to

to the Mystic Pack territory while Lucius was

Blade was there, I would usually do my best not to show

I couldn’t avoid it

want to make

girls in my class

mate bond that was working and making me feel jealous at the moment that I wanted to

in my spot, my head

fairness to him, he did make an effort

for formal black pants and a neatly ironed gray formal shirt with sleeves that he rolled up, making the tattoo on both

beard, it was shorter than he usually

looked fresh

Spirits! I knew those

"Happy birthday, Althea."

gloating over his feature, and my body jolted a bit back when I realized he was already standing in front of me with a bouquet of

you," I answered without

the flowers in his hand and

brushed slightly, and it was enough to create static, which I believed was the sparks they were talking

if I remember correctly, I felt it stronger than the last

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