Beneath Her Darkness: The Alpha's Little Demon by Cassandra M

LUCY.

"What are you doing?" Manuel’s eyes squinted as his gaze fell everywhere in my small, messy room while Stella was holding his arms to stop him from stepping inside.

"I’m looking for some of my money. But I found it already. I just misplaced it." I answered nonchalantly as I began picking up my clothes from the floor and began folding them.

"Stop with your lies. Were you in the kitchen earlier?"

"What kind of question is that? Of course. I’ve been everywhere in this house. What’s going on?" I turned around and placed my hands on my hips as I tapped my foot on the wooden floor, my eyes shifting back and forth between them as if I was impatient to hear their replies.

"Nothing, dear. I need help with dinner. Can you come down and give this old lady a hand before the pups come and attack me from hunger?" Stella spoke sweetly, but I saw worry and concern in her eyes.

Something was about to happen.

"Sure. I’ll just pick all these up and throw them on my bed, then I’ll go down. Just five minutes."

"Okay." She smiled widely as she tugged her mate away from my room, but Manuel was still looking at me. And I knew that the look he was giving me - he didn’t believe a word I said. He knew I was up to something.

To hell with him.

The moment the door closed, I grabbed the backpack from under the blanket and locked my door before I pulled my window up and scouted the grounds below. The locked door would buy me some time if they decided to come back and check on me.

My bedroom faced the back of the orphanage, but two floors down was one of the receiving rooms, the one often used for guests. If there was no one in there, no one would see me jumping down from baluster to baluster.

This was not the first time I jumped and crawled out of my bedroom window, so I didn’t have to be terrified about falling. I just needed not to be seen.

I swung the backpack over my shoulders and climbed out of the window. My hands clutched my window sill as I swung my foot down until I reached the upper doorframe of the room below mine. I used it as leverage and pushed my body up to jump, landing perfectly on the balcony of the old library that no one visited except for me.

I dusted off my hands and checked if there were lights in the receiving room down below, and my heart dropped in disappointment when I saw lights illuminating the window.

I bit my bottom lip, chewing it as I thought of my next move when a voice from the top snapped me out of my thoughts.

"She’s running away!" Manuel’s voice erupted in the thin air, making me snap my head back and I saw him pointing at me from my window.

to think as I jumped off the balcony from the second floor and landed on the dusty ground with

with a long beard. His forehead creased, but I didn’t have time to analyze him

sprang forward, running at a pace that was too fast for my usual run. It reminded me of the speed I used when I was

fast, but it was nothing compared to the wolves

earth, and the sound kept getting louder

stone hanging on my neck. I just needed to take it off and I

need to

Make your choice,

fell to my side as the wolves behind me overtook my run and ended up

in an instant. My ass hit the ground with a

broke my

with my eyes closed and my chest heaving. I wondered if my small

I knew they must

a bulky naked

answered, and I just remained still, wondering if I would be able to function

"What’s your name?"

was looking at them, looking down at me, but had no intention of replying. My back

earlier? Lucy. Her

wanted to show off. "Listen. We will take you and prepare you for the Omega Feast. Now be a good girl and no more running. And I promise you, no harm will come your

of the Feast." I

you try to run away,

trying to

to tell you what

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even get to say goodbye to Stella or the pups at the orphanage. The men who caught me just threw me into the car that

and that they needed to watch out for me because

man he talked with assured him that I was not the first case like this, and they knew what

should be terrified, but I wasn’t. I have seen far worse with my young eyes while I was in the underworld than the things around here. Nothing

if I wasn’t scared, I needed to pretend that I was. Or they

me were in full silence. So I took it as an invitation to rest my eyes and think about my life. I leaned my body and