Chapter 88
BENEATH HER DARKNESS: The Alpha's Little Demon
088 â Succubus LUCY.
My mind and body were already tired, but I kept going.
Lucius brought me to a place I had never been before. It looked like a cave, but it wasnât â it was just endless darkness, and the only source of light was the torches he placed in every corner surrounding us.
Iâd been trying to shift into my succubus form, and it kept getting harder because Angel was fighting it. Every time I shifted into one, she was out of my head, and she wasnât liking that. And with our location away from the tower, she was able to use her own strength against mine.
My wolf wanted to trust Lucius, but she didnât want me to make the wrong decision. She didnât want me away from her.
But I wanted to take the risk. I wanted to see Adan, even in his dreams, or what they called ânightmares.â
âBut without my wolf with me and just a demon soul, would I still go into heat?â I asked Lucius after finding out I would not be able to take Angel with me in my succubus form.
âYou shouldnât even be thinking about that. Just in your succubus form, you will be in total lust.â
âWell, I am not right now.â
âYou never fancy me, Lucija, It would never work. Wait until you see Stone, and you might end up overdoing it.â
I rolled my eyes at him and prepared to shift again. Every time I did it, my body remained unconscious, as if I were sleeping, so I had to make sure I would be in bed pretending to be asleep when I transformed to meet Adan, or someone would notice I was out of my body.
Angel snarled at me, but I pushed her back into the back of my mind, and this time it went smoothly. Soon, my soul was floating around the area. I was totally desire, naked, but Lucius could still see me. I was watching his eyes the whole time to see if I would see anything in them wants, or anything else. But there was nothing.
Maybe he didnât see me as anything other than his sister, which was something I appreciated.
âI think youâre getting better with it. Try it on your bed later, when youâre alone.â
âBut how do I get to him?â
âNo other way but to use a portal. Only Father can leave without using one.â
âAre you sure he canât track me?â
âNot in that form. And then, once youâre out of the underworld, you can just teleport your soul wherever you want to be.â
âI can go to his pack? How would I know Lucien is not watching him at that time?â
âStone is currently not in his territory. He said he was in Bladeâs territory.â
My eyes widened at his words. âBlade? Wait how did you know all this? Are you communicating with Adan?â
âNo. I just have to make sure heâs safe. So Iâm watching him. Without him, I canât kick you out of here.â
âWould that mean youâre protecting him from entertaining females as I asked, my eyebrows hiking up.
âYes, maâam.â He winked at me, and I willed my soul to go back to my physical form.
In an instant, my body woke up, and Angel ignored me as she retreated to the back of my mind even after I greeted her. But I would deal with her later.
âSo, how would I reach him when I donât even know where he is?â I asked, and this time I couldnât help the smile from gracing my lips at the excitement brewing in my chest.
âLeave it to me. I will meet you at the other end of the portal, and we can transport together to where he is.â
âWill you stay there? While I do things to him?â
âMaybe, maybe not. But donât be too excited yet. We need to figure out first if you can mindlink while in succubus form.
âBut I was able to talk to you earlier.â
âThatâs talking. We need mind talking in case Father comes looking for you.â
âBut if Iâm in the human realm...â
âHe will still be able to contact you.
Besides, your body will remain in the007 underworld. Now transform again and will yourself to be invisible. Then fly around or transport somewhere far from here. I will try to connect with you. If you donât receive anything after a while, come back here.â
âOkay...â I walked back to where I was seated every time I would shift, but I raised a palm to Lucius. âGive me a moment to talk with my wolf.â
He just nodded his head and looked at me as I tried to connect with Angel.
âAngel, are you mad at me? Please, you have to understand. I know you want to see Adan and Beast too, but we donât have a choice at the moment.â
She purred before she explained her side. Iâm not stopping you from seeing them even without me. I just donât want you alone.
What if something happens? I wonât be able to help you.â
âLucius will help me.â
âI know he said he would, but itâs still different when Iâm with you.â
âDonât feel like I donât need you or your help. But this is my one shot to see Adan. Weâre slowly deteriorating from their absence. And this might be my only chance. Just this one time. And I promise you, I will not use this form again unless necessary.â
âFine. But will you promise me to tell them I love them?â
âI will try. I hope thereâs a way to communicate with them.â
âIf thereâs no other way, donât worry about it. Just have fun. Iâm sure Adan misses us too, he just didnât know it.â
âThank you. Iâm glad youâre here, Angel. Or Iâd go crazy here.â
âMe too...â
âAnd I promise you, I wonât let them touch you. They will have to kill me before they can kill you.â
âThank you. I hope we can get out of here without Lucien punishing Adan and his pack if we run away.
âI know. Thatâs why we have to trust Lucius, even if itâs hard to trust anyone. Heâs our only choice right now.â
Angel didnât reply more, and it was my signal to prepare for my shifting into my succubus form. I nodded my head at Lucius as I sat down on the ground. In seconds, my body felt lighter as I floated around my sleeping form, and without any more words to my brother, I vanished into his sight as I transported my body to the hot spring I always ran to when I was younger.
This should be enough. It was too far from the place where I left my body.
âLucija?â Luciusâ voice rang in my head.
âOh, Goddess, I thought I needed to go back there already. I can hear you.â I told him excitedly.
âGood. Now try to contact Father.â
âWhat? No way!â Lucien was the last one I wanted to communicate with.
âJust try. I want to know if he will feel anything. If he can sense your form.â
âOkay.â
I let out a deep sigh before connecting my mind to my father. âFather?â
âWhere are you?â He asked immediately.
âJust around here. Iâm on my way back to the tower. I just want to know when Guillermo is arriving?â
âIâm not sure. I donât even know where he is, but he sent a message saying he would be here soon. Are you too eager to see him?â
âNo.â I rolled my eyes. âCan I choose someone, not from our kingdom?â
10/10 âItâs either him or Lucius. But Guillermo is the best choice.â
âI donât want either of them.â I had to make it sound like I didnât want Lucius as well, so if I chose him later on, he would give in instead of me not choosing any of them.
âMeet Guillermo first. And then we can talk again.â His voice sounded final.
I didnât reply anymore, cutting off our conversation before I transported back to where Lucius was. I immediately returned to my body and explained to him what Father told me and that he seemed unaware I was in my succubus form.
âRelax. We got this.â
we just flashed me his usual smirk.
âWhat are your plans? I just canât sit here and wait for the cleansing and just rely on whatever you plan to do.â
âI will let you know the day before. Just trust me. For now, master every skill that you can. I know you are training your wolf in secret. Keep doing that. I will make sure the cleansing will be held in the same place where rituals are done, so thereâs no enchantment around it and your wolf can surface anytime. So if worst comes to worst, shift and protect yourself. Run away from here.â
âAnd how about you?â
âI will take care of the rest.
âI still donât understand. If at the end I will just end up running away, why canât I just run right now?â
âThere are things I canât tell you yet, but I will explain more before your cleansing. We need to give it a try. Running away now will only mean that our father will be on your heels again. We need to put him down.â
âBut how.â
âI will tell you when the day comes. We will do it together. Now tell me what power and skills have you learned?â
â¡â¡â¡ m LUCIUS.
After I trained Lucija and found out the things she was now capable of, I went to the portal and crossed to the other realm again.
It was already morning, and that meant tonight would be the full moon. I needed a word with Stone.
He reminded me last time about Lucijaâs heat. But after finding out that she was not able to take her wolf with her when she was in succubus form, I was not sure how the heat would go for them. Although one thing was sure â even without her heat, Lucija would be in total lust once she saw Stone.
âOh, spirits! Youâre too early.â Patrea almost shrieked when I appeared beside her in the kitchen. She was preparing breakfast, but I didnât see Stone or Kingston yet.
âDid you miss me?â
âYou were here just hours ago. Do you even rest?â She huffed, her brows furrowing.
âNah, canât rest. My mind keeps thinking about you.â
âStop trying to enchant me with your words. Itâs not working.â
âToo bad. I should hire someone to teach me how to woo females.â I chuckled, enjoying the annoyance on her face.
âStop doing that and help me out here.â
âWhat the... I donât even know what youâre doing.â
âTry this, tell me how it tastes.â She raised a spoon, and it was almost touching my lips. Was she feeding me? âI donât eat food, unless for a show.â
âBut Iâm sure you can tell me what it tastes like. Now open your mouth.â
And I did open it like a fucking puppet. I swallowed the warm soup that she put into my mouth, but I had no idea how it tasted.
Food never tasted like anything to us. We could imagine how we wanted it to taste.
She lived in the underworld for far too long, she should know that by now. But why the fuck was she asking me this?
âSo?â She asked, and I had no idea what to tell her.
âDo you want the truth?â
âYes.â
â1 âI canât taste food. I can choose if I want it to taste good or bad.â
âI know.â She chuckled before turning around and picking up the ladle to stir whatever soup or liquid was in the pot. âI just missed acting normal. And I canât do that with the Alpha and his Gamma because theyâre mated.â
Her words made me smile, but I didnât say anything.
âI know Iâm weird.â She said, breaking the silence between us.
âYes, you are.â My kind of weird.
âI think anyone will end up being weird if they get stuck in the underworld for a long time. I just want normality, although I know Iâm not normal.â She let out a deep sigh. âSo Iâm not sure if Iâm ready to go back there.â
âAre you backing out on the plan?â I asked. I felt my anger rising, but I tried my best to control it. âAnswer me.
âI want to trust you. I swear to the spirits, I do. But I can feel that youâre hiding something. You laid out the plans, but I know thereâs something more youâre not telling.â
âI donât understand what youâre trying to say.â I tried to act nonchalantly, but in reality, she got me. I didnât tell them the whole plan for the same reason I withheld information from Lucija.
I doubted Stone would agree if he found out my final weapon was Lucija. I was sure he would stop me from using her. But what choice do I have? She was the only one capable of killing our father.
âTell me everything, and I will help you. Or I can just walk away now.â
âYouâre not going to abandon Lucija.â I challenged her.
âWatch me do it.
âIâll tell you everything, but you have to agree to sell your soul to me so I can take you to the underworld.â
âI donât trust you, Lucius.â
âI donât trust anyone either. But Iâm willing to trust you and tell you everything I know and my whole plan but I just wanted the same courtesy. Trust me with your soul, and I promise you I will bring you back here after all of this.â
11 âBut if you die...â
âI wonât die. I will do everything to stay alive just to keep my promise to you that I will bring you back to this realm in one piece.â