The underworld 3: THE ALPHAS

CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER SEVEN

I threw one last jab at Chen before I bent over, my palms falling on my knees as I breathed fast. Chen had been admittedly extra hard on me today but I needed it to get Maniyah out of my head. In a few minutes I’d be meeting Lucian at the Diner for a casual date. In a world this unpredictable, I was determined to spend every spare chance I got with him.

“What is going on?” Chen questioned.

“What?” I straightened up, dubbing the sweat dripping on the side of my face with a towel.

“You’ve been off today. Usually, you’d be complaining about how hard I’m on you but you didn’t do one bit. You weren’t training today. It was more like a bid to block something and you’ve also got the whole nervous vibe going on with you,” he patched his hands on his waist, his face conforming into a serious expression,” I’m the Beta of the pack and so if something is going on, I need to know, Faith,”

I forced a wary smile, tapping him lightly on the arm as I walked to the gym showers,” Nothing is wrong Chen. Quit overthinking,”

As the cold water cascaded down the layers of my skin, I couldn’t help enjoying the cooling effect they left in their trail. All the heat I felt in my muscles began disappearing but even still I couldn’t help but wonder what was Maniyah’s next move. Was I supposed to get extremely worried? My family and my friends were all in this town and if anything were ever to happen to any of them, I would never be able to live with myself. I had just stepped out of the gym, my thoughts amess and craving nothing more than just the company of my boyfriend when I ran into Ronald. Just when I thought my day wouldn’t get any worse than it was already.

“Ronald,” I detested the very existence of this man. If it weren’t for him, I would be very much normal right now and living my introverted life peacefully in Brooklyn with my amazing family.

“Just making sure you did not forget our little…arrangement. The grill would be the perfect place to have that meeting, don’t you think?” His stupid little meeting.

“We are going to have to reschedule,” I said, walking past him but his next words stopped me right in my tracks.

“Do you know exactly where that Norman boy is right now? Having ice cream with Angel and they looked pretty happy if I’m being honest. It would be a shame to ruin such a perfect evening when it has only just begun, don’t you think?” I loathed that smirk to the core.

I turned around, arms crossed,” I do not want to be part of that stupid underworld royalty, Ronald. By now you should have gotten it into the thickness of your skull that I don’t want anything that has something remotely to do with you,”

“Have a cup of coffee with me. We could catch up and you would fill me everything about your life,” he replied causally. Did he not hear a word I just said to him?

“Don’t you think its seventeen years too late for you to play father figure now?” I scoffed,” If you touch even the smallest hair on Norman’s head then I swear I won’t be so gentle with you. I’ve given you enough time to go around like you own this town when all you have down is ruin my life and Roman’s,” He remained unfazed, something that triggered the rage inside me some more. Did he even have a touch of humanity left in whatever demon soul of his that he possessed?

“Oh, please. Once you take rein of the underworld, you will be thanking me for-“

“I won’t be thanking you for anything, Ronald,” I snapped, covering the distance between us in five quick strides before looking at him dead in the eye so he could see the malice in mine,” I would kill you before I take that throne, father, “I spat in the most disgusted manner.

For a few seconds, he went blank but then vulnerability crossed his eyes as he croaked,” Y-You called me father,”

“Only in the most detestable manner,” I pointed out but then it hit me hard in the core. Ronald had a weakness and coincidentally enough, it was me or more like he craved my affection for him. This meant I could manipulate him, punish him for what he did to my brother and I. I would make sure he paid for the misery he put in my mother’s life and what I had to go through because of his selfishness. Without realizing he had give me the master key to the door of demise and I was going to use it well enough to make sure he was no longer in my life.

“The thing is Faith, you are more me than you realize. You are my child and a half-demon too. If there is one person in your life who gets you, then that’s me and maybe we could reschedule that meeting to tomorrow evening. I’ll see you around,” he smirked before turning around and leaving.

As I watched him disappear around the corner, I released an angry sigh. I hated Ronald, now more than ever. After what he did to us, his own blood, he still had the audacity to crave for something like that from me? Affection would be the last thing I’d give to a man to that ruined my life. It was seventeen years too late for that.

“Someone pissed in your cereal this morning?” Lucian was quick to notice something was wrong the moment we met up at the diner.

“That would have been nicer,” I huffed,” Ronald has the audacity to keep on showing up in front of me. Does not fear that I could snap and kill him without feeling any tint of guilt?”

“Ronald? If he did something to you , I swear I’m going to-“ I touched his palm over the table.

“I’m fine, Bub,” His show of concern always had a way of making my worries go away,” Lets focus on more positive things. Like the upcoming camping trip with all our friends. I just hope Maniyah doesn’t spring something just yet,”

“She won’t do anything, trust me. I actually think she is scared of you,” he pointed out.

“What? That’s ridiculous. She is the demoness of the underworld and literally has demons ready to kiss her feet and do anything she says,” I pointed out.

“Exactly. Every demon is ready to worship the ground she walks on except for the most powerful of them all,” he paused,” You. I saw it when she countered us this morning. There was restlessness and anxiety written all over her,”

“Come on, I don’t think I’m the most powerful demon. It was just people exaggerating about the extent of my power as a hybrid,” I had not felt as powerful as people made me out to be.

“Faith, not only is your demon side very powerful but you are a primordial wolf. The blood of two very powerful creatures is coursing through your veins now and so yes, you are the most powerful and that’s scares her. We’ll use that to our advantage,” he said, a smirk crawling up the edge of the lips.

“I found Ronald’s weakness too,” I admitted. Maybe we would finally win this war and bring an end to all this forever.

“Really? Perfect. We are going to take all of them down. So what is it Ronald’s weakness?”

“Its me,” I expelled a light breath.

“What?” He muttered after a second of hesitation, his face contorted in confusion.

“Yes, I’m Ronald’s weakness. I think he secretly hates that I loath him and he is just using this underworld Royalty stuff to try and get close to me. I will use that to my advantage and make him pay for every single thing he put my family through,” I said with determination.