Bride of the Cursed Alpha (Auren and Lucien)

Chapter 12

Chapter 12

Auren POW

I could feel the brat crawling up my neck and spreading across my cheeks like fire licking at dry wood. I bit my bottom lip to stop my embarassment. My face must've been as red as the tomatoes I used to slice in the park house kitchen back at the Crimson Howl pack. I tried to look anywhere but at him, while his gaze remained forward as he carried me to the car.

No one had picked me up in their arms. Maybe my parents had done that when I was a babe. So this was new, and wa

1. warm.

The harder I tried to steady my breath, the more my blush deepencil, spresiding over my skin. It was as if my cheeks had turned into glowing embers for everyone to see.

Alpha Lucien made me sit in the car and then sat beside me. However, the moment he ut, he saw a red stain on the leather seat. His eyes narrowed and anger flared in his eyes. "Show me your food" he said darkly

When the wine glass had shattered next to my feet, one of the pieces scattered next to me. So when Alpha Lucien pulled me up and I started walking, I stepped on a tiny shard. It was lodged in my skin but I didn't make a fuss about it because everything was happening so fast. I was used to so much more abuse that this little wound lundly affected me.

"It's nothing" I said, shrinking under his dark gaze. And hiccupped

"Show, Me. Your Foot He said a little loudly.

I must have been a bunny in my last life. His loud voice made me jump so hard that I instantly slapped my left foot on his thigh. He jerked his face back 1-I'm sorry." I said, giggling when I should have scolded myself. What the hell was happening to me? When I tried to pull away in a hurry. he grabbed my ankle, his eyes landing directly on my skin where the shard was lodged.

feathered

didn't you

nothing." I reminded him. "Back in

old pack, Auren," he

can't walk like this with a shard stuck in your Cool

I hissed in pain. He muttered something under his breath and then took out his hanky, which he tied like a temporary bandage around my foot. And for the rest of the journey, he didn't allow me to keep it down. When we

eyes darted to his beautiful bow-shaped

mattress, our faces were merely a few inches close.

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and said, "We will not leave the

somehow

anything from me, ask Tarian, and he will

my gaze now darting between his eyes and

giggling. Silence hung between us for a few moments after which Alpha Lucien straightened. Then without a word, he turned and left. And only when

eyes and a receding hairline. He shook his head as her saw my wound "Lucien sounded like it was a deep gash, but this is so tiny that

to sleep in my formal dress However, at night the weather

away at first, a soft rumble, but it got louder anst louder unul it felt like the whole house was trembling. I pulled

the noise wouldn't let me rest. Each crack of thunder and flash of lightning made me jump. After what felt like forever. I