Bride of the Cursed Alpha (Auren and Lucien)

Chapter 43

Chapter 43

Auren POV

Sienna was whimpering inside me because she was badly hurt, but I also knew that she supported my decision

So I lifted my chin up and said what I should have said long back, "1, Auren Cressida, accept the rejection of Alpha Bram Reed of the Crimson

Pack

"Nooo!" Bram shouted in a hoarse voice, stumbling backward. He slapped his hand on his chest, his breath turning shallow. "No, no, no!" he rasped in agony. "You can't reject me! Since he was an Alpha, his pain was stronger than mine. He was on his knees and hands, crawling "Take it back. I can't be swallowed. "I can't bear the pain"

for me I experienced the pain as well, but its intensity was less. Hurt, Sienna curled into a ball inside me, going silent. I clenched my fists tightly as tears ran down my cheeks. Even though it pained, 1 felt liberated.

“Brammnum“” Maris's voice tore through the night, "Bramm, baby where are you?"

"Maris Marks" called her. This bitch-she-she-

Hearing his voice, Maris came rushing toward us. "Oh, my goddess!" she squealed as she glanced at me and then back at him. "What happened! What did she do?"

"Ahhh" Bram cried as Maris sat next to him and held his quaking shoulders with her hands. "This blich-she hurt me! She's j-jealous of you!"

disgust. "And how exactly does

"She hit me wi

he said, looking at a brick

"I knew it!" she shouted. "She was always so jealous of me because you wanted me. How could you stoop so low, bitch?

of you, Maris." Then I tilted my head and said to Alpha Bram,

so satisfying that through all the pain I was experiencing, I wanted to laugh. I added, "He asked me to return, but I won't.

back, but I stopped after a few steps and turned to them. "And I don't hate you. Maris. I pity you"I turned and walked back, tears streaming down my cheeks because of all the pain in my heart. However I felt good, like a thousand chains that had shackled me in misery

watching me intensely. When I reached him, his dark gaze locked on my face, his muscles

The word meant so much to me. His home was my home. I had officially untied myself from my pack and its Alpha, and wholeheartedly committed to the Alpha of

Instead he placed his hand

that seeped inside me, drowning away. all the insecurities Ifrit with Brain. I didn't know why but I felt I was incapable of stopping what was to happen between Lucien and me. Was it the beginning of

in his lap. He cradled me there tightly without offering words of comfort, but his gesture was soothing. I needed a shoulder, in his case, a chest, to cry on. So I cried until i couldn't. I mourned loss of a mate who deemed me unworthy, and cherished the one, who made me feel

bed after taking out my shoes, "Sleep well Auren," he murmured. "Tomorrow is a big day" Saying

lost, where tentacles of something dark

Lucien POV

I closed the door behind me, Heaned against it, listening

me that Bram was talking to her. My hackles raised and I strode to where they were, but

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me like nothing. Why didn't she tell me earlier? He had rejected ber and she had suffered all along. I wanted to kill Bram with my bare claws. However, on the inside my wolf was whining and whimpering, wondering why she hadn't accepted his rejection. He was paranoid and panicky. What if she didn't

damned