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 in

you tell me about

nothing." I reminded him. "Back in my old

don't care what happened in your old pack, Auren," he cut me off

walk like this with a

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 arrived at his home, once again, he scooped me in his arms and carried

his beautiful bow-shaped lips and my breath

mattress, our faces were merely

Hr

covered me with the blanket and said, "We will not leave

somehow managed

anything from me, ask Tarian, and he will pass

between his eyes and

so daring and also because I couldn't stop 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 he shut the door behind him, I loosed my breath Goddess, he was

shook his head as her saw my wound "Lucien sounded like it was a deep

change and went off to sleep in my formal

wolf. It shook the windows, making them rattle in their frames. Kain poured down hard, harring the glass so fast it sounded like someone was Growing tiny stones. Thunder rolled far away at first, a soft rumble, but it got louder anst louder unul it felt like the whole house

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