Here's the second one for tonight. Thank you for all the lovely comments on yesterday's chapter. We are reaching the last few chapters of this book, but don't be sad, as we will still see them in book 2 (and the life they have with Aiden) from time to time. 🤍 Thank you for reading, lovelies! 🤍
LUCY. Tomorrow was supposed to be a happy day, but my heart felt heavy the moment I woke up today. I will be twenty-one, and I have no idea how I will celebrate it. I told Adan I didn’t want a big party, but I’m starting to regret it. I had never celebrated my birthdays since my parents died, and the two years I spent in the orphanage didn’t make up for it as I gave them a false date of birth. So I never get any cakes and birthday wishes anymore on my real birthday. I miss Mom and how she would always try to give me the best birthday, even with just a simple cake and food. And how Diego would always make an effort to return home to us on that day. He never failed. He kept showing up until he could no longer do it. I wished I opted for a big celebration so the empty space in my heart that only my parents could fill would be temporarily filled with the people I loved. But it’s too late to change my mind. At least Adan invited me for a late dinner tonight. I wiped the tears from m
ADAN STONE. The days went by so swiftly. My days following the retrieval of the Silver Crest Pack from Ethan were spent assisting Blade as he slowly built his pack again, but after a week, I left him on his own and began preparing for Lucy’s 21st birthday. She told me she didn’t want a big celebration on her birthday, and although I promised her I would not give her a big one, I wanted her first birthday with me to be memorable. So I invited people who were important to her to celebrate with us. Nothing big. Just a private family dinner at the first restaurant where I took her. I opened the double door without taking my eyes off her. I wanted to be the first one to see if it would make her happy or disappointed that I didn’t keep my promise. But it’s not yet her birthday, so technically I wasn’t breaching any promises, right? Lucy’s eyes widened as her mouth opened the moment she saw the people waiting inside the big dining hall. Mom and Dad with Aiden. Our Beta couple, Collin a
LUCIUS. "How are you doing, Lucius?" Petra’s voice came out soft, and I was not able to stop my head from snapping in her direction, Was it her asking me? I stared at her for a few seconds before her eyebrows raised and she pushed a forkful of meat into her mouth. My eyes focused on her plump lips as she chewed her food slowly, and I felt a thirst I hadn’t felt in a long time, and it made me lose my sense of time. "Was my question that hard?" She asked again after she was done chewing her meat, her eyes not leaving mine. A smirk formed on my mouth before I licked my lips and shifted my body slightly in her direction, my hand still holding my fork. "I thought you didn’t want to hear anything about the underworld?" "Well, I thought I asked about you, and not the underworld." She emphasized the 'you'. "They’re the same thing. I and the underworld can’t be separated." "I see. It’s okay if you don’t want to talk. I was just being polite as we sat next to each other." "How have you
UNDERWORLD. 5 YEARS AFTER. ADAN STONE. "Luther, look here! Attention must be with me." Lucius snapped his fingers multiple times and covered the area where Luther was looking with dark mist so his attention would shift back to his demon uncle. "No!" Luther grunted when the gullaps he was staring at vanished in his peripheral vision before snapping his head back to Lucius, who was standing almost 300 meters away from him. "Ready?" Lucius asked him, a smirk plastered on his face. For some reason, the years didn’t diminish his fascination with his nephew, if anything, it only grew stronger, and I was happy that the fascination went both ways. Luther smiled at him before his eyes blazed red, and soon he was running at full speed before he ascended in the air and he continued springing forward. He was moving up and fast, but after a few meters more, he was already plunging downward. I felt Lucy’s body stiffen beside me, but I just chuckled and watched as Lucious caught our son mid-air
BLOOD MOON PACK - Alpha Aeon and Luna Alexa’s Territory. FIVE YEARS FROM THE LAST CHAPTER. ADAN STONE. Amara Grace, my only niece, was celebrating her 18th birthday, and I took my whole family with me and went to the South, which we had done at least once or twice a year in the last ten years. Aside from visiting my family that had relocated to the South, it was also a way for Lucy to visit the graves of her parents. Aeon and Alexa were generous enough to give Everly a proper burial when she died, and they could not locate Lucy. On the first occasion that Lucy visited her mother’s grave, Alexa also gave her a big surprise. She took Diego’s belongings that she saved from Lucy’s old house and told Lucy that the empty space that was opened beside Everly’s would be given officially to Diego. And since we no longer had his body, Alexa thought burying some of his things would still count. So that Lucy would have a place to visit both her parents. I never saw Lucy cry so hard except t
MYSTIC RIDGE DANCE CONCERT. LUCY. My eyes welled up with tears as I clapped my hands together and stood up, together with everyone else in this big auditorium, giving the dance performers a standing ovation. My five-year-old daughter, Luciana Aila, or Lily, was among the pups dancing in the finale for today’s performance. And seeing her enjoy her dance with the pups who were raised by the orphanage made me feel too many emotions. Ten years ago, I found myself on stage dancing with almost nothing covering my body, alongside some of the omegas that were abandoned and raised in orphanages throughout the North. It was an experience I would not wish for anyone. And I’ve been fighting for years to put an end to this. We might not have succeeded in abolishing the Omega Feast yet, but I would make sure that these pups under my care would never have to go through the Omega Feast. I would make sure that despite being abandoned or unwanted, they would live their lives to the fullest and be
Author's Note: February 23, 2023 Hello, lovelies! This is Book 2 of the INTO THE DARKNESS Saga and will feature Lucius and Patrea. If you haven't finished Beneath Her Darkness: The Alpha's Little Demon, I highly suggest you finish it first, as I will not be explaining how they got to this point. I'll pick up where they left off in Book 1 and move forward with only flashbacks to some important details. Otherwise, you may continue reading, and I hope you will enjoy this one as well. Thank you for giving their story a chance! ❤ xoxo, Cassandra M P.S. I will announce the winner of the giveaways either tomorrow or on Saturday.
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 force 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 si