Beneath Her Darkness: The Alpha's Little Demon

Chapter 189

Chapter 37 - What's There To Love About Me?

LUCIUS.

"No! No! I’m sorry! Patrea! I said I’m sorry."

I watched as black veins crawled on the skin of her neck, starting from where the bite was, and watched in terror as she choked in front of me.I didn’t know what to do.

She couldn’t breathe.

The pain in my chest was killing me, and I just wanted to succumb to it, but I couldn’t just let Patrea go.Her eyes fluttered before they shut, and the veins disappeared from her skin, and I knew I was losing her.

My hand reached for her neck as I summoned my power to remove my mark, but I couldn’t.

Marks and wounds from the underworld were permanent.

Why the fuck did I forget a demon mark was deadly? My whole body shook as the agony of my action washed over me.I was losing the only female I ever cared about, and it was entirely my fault.I leaned my head closer to her naked chest.

Her heart was still beating.I got up from the bed before I scooped up her body and transported us back to the cave where we came from.

All the while, tears were pouring from my eyes.I didn’t know I was capable of crying, but I didn’t know I was capable of loving too.

If Patrea died, I didn’t want to be here anymore.

"Lucija!"

I bellowed the moment we appeared on the cave floor, and I saw the shock that registered on Lucija and Stone's faces the moment their eyes fell on the mark on her neck.

"Oh, Goddess! What have you done?"

Lucija screamed as she ran toward us before Nyneve’s wicked laughter filled the whole cave, and it made the anger in my body surge up.

My hand flew as I fired fireballs her way, burning her legs at the same time that Stone shot ice spikes at her, piercing her throat.She choked on her blood, but the rage and guilt in me unleashed the demon inside of me.

I transferred Patrea's limp body onto Lucija’s arms before I raised my body in the air and flew to where Nyneve was.She screamed as fear flitted in her eyes when she saw my demon claws emerge.

In seconds, I had ripped her head apart, and it rolled off the ground before I clawed her heart out.

I would have wanted a different kind of death for her, but it didn't matter anymore.

Her blood splattered on my face and all over my body, with her heart pulsating in my hand.

I crushed it before letting the blood and pieces of it fall to the ground, instead of eating it as I would have done on other days.

My mind was still in a daze, trying to come to terms with the fact that Patrea was dying.

I lowered my body to the ground and slowly made my way to Lucija, who was still carrying her body as tears kept streaming down her face.

She was angry.

With me.

And I couldn’t blame her.

"I killed her." I finally said it.

"Her heart is still beating,"

Lucija stated, her eyes refusing to meet mine.

"If she loves you, she will survive this," Stone added.

"And if she doesn’t?"

shook as my whole body wracked in my silent cry before I began trashing around

could hold in my hands was

need to take

back to the present.I nodded my head and transported us

still in disarray following our tryst, and her blood was still on the

to fix it before she lowered

talk to Hades," I said

all the energy in my

can't leave her! What if something happened?" Lucija

"Something is already happening!"

I snapped at her.

stay here and watch

"Calm down!"

Stone growled at me.

you see yourself calming down if it’s Lucija laying down there?" I snapped at Stone

the fucking enemy here! You just need to calm down so we can think of

I wanted

"I’ll go with you."

my head.I knew Hades favored him,

can’t leave me alone here! Give me a minute to take Althea here! Maybe she can do something!"

didn’t

Blade’s territory.I have the image in my head.Open your mind so I can tell you when

and I sent Lucija to Blade’s territory before I walked to the

was still fresh, and from time to time, a pool of blood would form before it would drip down

heard me when I said I love

was a sobbing

falling from

resides in demons.But you taught me about it when you said you hoped one day you would get over your trauma.And we did it.I want to have that hope now.Because that is all I can hold on to at the moment.I don’t

to tell her many things, but Lucija asked to be transported back, taking Althea and Blade

did you

I stood up from the bed and gave her space

"Mama, wake up!"

placed her hands over her wounded neck and began chanting spells, all the while tears trickled down

locked with Stone,

was time to go before it was

had transported our

outside what looked like a metal gate, but these were burned skulls forming a barricade between hell

Let me in! Just give me a few

bellowed, and the fire surrounding us glowed brighter and the

But there was nothing.

me! I begged

was about to add more when I felt my body being sucked into limbo, and I landed on

and his words brought a chill down

to accept it.I shook my head and dropped to my knees.I met his eyes,

you save her.And I mean

an easy task if her soul belonged to me.How many times do I have to remind you

my teeth, as I didn’t want to end

better, Lucius.Two centuries, and you still think we are capable of being loved?" His voice was laced

found hers."

be together, my son.Their fate

understand that now! But I’m begging you, give her back her

is nothing I can

forget all about me.I will take it! Just give her her life back! She wants to do many things, and it’s unfair for me to take those away

"Lucius..."

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