Bride of the Cursed Alpha (Auren and Lucien)

Chapter 159

Keep Her Away

Matt POV

A few months later.

Mom and Dad had sent messengers to every pack to find about Tam AuLuc. But there was no one who could identify. They finally gave up and decided to raise her until they found who she belonged to. And we had no idea why she wasn't smelling like a werewolf, a bear or a human. She smelled like... warm caramel and chocolate. Cinnamon cake.

The Shaman of our pack determined her age to be around seven months. So my mother decided to celebrate her birthday five months later after she had found her. Mom's fascination for Tam was beyond my understanding.

Today we were celebrating her first birthday. No me. My parents. While I was detesting every minute of it.

Tam had grown up and now she could crawl and walk, but not without falling. That afternoon, I was playing with Xbox when she came half crawling-half running toward me. I gritted my teeth as I avoided her. Her small hands reached for mine. "Mat! Mat! Toy, pwease."

was to deal with her. How could mom care for her so nicely when she knew that Tam was responsible for her brother's

She fell on her bumps and looked at me with those

eyes filling with tears. She crawled to me and grabbed my hand. “Play Mat,”

my hand. “Not now,"

my gaze and started playing with the Xbox. She turned and slowly crawled her way back to her room. Veles! Reluctantly, I got up, went to my drawer, pulled out some conches and shells I had collected at the local riverbed and gave them to her. I had intended to make a necklace out of those, Veles knows why. "Here you can play with these!" I snapped, depositing

of my friends played soccer with me outside in our garden. Our house was located near the edge of the woods because often my father would shift into his bear and run there along with mom. Tam had come out to watch us. She was sitting on the porch in her pink frock, her curly golden hair a mess around her face, her cheeks splattered with cake and cookies, looking impossibly adorable. I

tackled the ball and before I knew I was too focused on defeating all of them with vengeance. Suddenly, we heard a low growl. I snapped my head only to see that a rogue bear

thinking I rushed toward Tam, shouting at her. "Stay back!" I yelled at her as I rushed

friends shouted.

As I approached her, Tam looked up at me

I glared at the bear. It dipped its head and let out a growl. My body became tense with anger. Just as I was about to attack him, my

my actions. If I didn't want her, I could have let her there. But I wasn't able to fight this intense urge to protect her. I guess, this urge was there in me for everyone. I would have done the same with any other of my pack members. Tam started crying, but I strode out of her room, frustration mounting inside me. "The

from school, the house was unusually filled with Tam's giggles and laughter. It was as if she wanted to drown my house with her giggles. Before I knew it, my feet carried me to her room. And I saw something strange. She was holding up to a... shadow. I stared at her fist, which she was moving. A shadow was moving with it. It was like she had caught a tail of a shadow and whipped it