The Alpha Claimed Me Deeply by Demiah13

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«Aurora's pov )

"Bond?" Beta Samuel's voice is thick with confusion.

But I can't seem to focus much on their words, my gaze growing hazier by the second, the air whooshing out my lungs harsher by the second.

I take a staggering step forward, intending to perhaps steady myself on the bark of a tree, but there was no bark but air. I topple to the ground, my knees hitting the dirt as I gasp.

This was painful.

"Aurora!" Lily screech. I could feel her fingers wrap around my upper arm, maybe trying to steady me before I ungracefully fall to the ground fully.

"Xavier-" I moaned in pain as I looked around aimlessly at the thick foliage around us.

All I could make out was green and brown.

Green and brown.

My ears rang and I groan, my hands reaching up to cup them. "Stop. Please stop." I whispered hoarsely. Aurora.

Suddenly the ringing stops and I freeze. That voice. The voice I now crave to hear. His voice. Xavier's voice. But surely he wasn't here.

Surely he'd not come to take me back? "Aurora," a soft touch to my arm nearly has me flinching, but I recognize Lily as she kneels before me and looks at me in worry.

Those eyes.

That color.

"I've heard of this happening to mated couples who haven't been rejected yet and are forced to stay away from each other. The bond doesn't allow them to part. It forces them to get back to the other's side. Even if it means pain."

This was Sarah's voice right?

I couldn't tell, my mind a little slow to understand anyone else's voice other than his.

" But Aurora and Alpha Xavier's case is rather different. He casted her out but did not reject her. This makes the bond now more painful as it sorts for answers. " She continues.

Lily turns to look at Sarah over my shoulder. "Answers?" She asked in confusion.

"The bond seeks for answers that Xavier alone can give. Either he rejects her, or he accepts her. But she can't go out of the border. If she does, I fear that may very well be the end of her. And him." Sarah whispers.

"What bond are you talking about!?" Beta Samuel snarls in frustration. "Beta Samuel, I know you were

always a bit slow but never did I ever imagine you to be a fool." Lily sighed heavily before looking at me.

My gaze was still hazy but I could see the deep concern in her eyes. "Aurora. Can you stand up?" Lily asked.

I blinked, staring at her blankly as her face merges into the face of her brother. My breathing grows and my heart thuds. "Xavier?" I whispered. I'm coming to you.

There goes his voice again. The rough sweet sound that sent shivers down my spine.

"Aurora."

seem to have done the job of bringing

in front of me is no longer Xavier's

my shoulder again. ''We should

"I agree, we should-

had commanded me to escort her out of the territory. Not bring her back. I will

"That alpha is my brother! And he needs her just as she

NOT disobey a command from my alpha!" Beta Samuel growled loudly, the

Lily. Or I'll force

away into the sky. I looked to my left to see that it was Chris who took a warning step forward, his eyes trained on

: Xavier's pov:

was rather oddly quiet the entire run to the end of

I mind linked Eli as I sniffed the ground. There must be something we

say the wolves we placed here to guard this area were surely busy last night all into the wee hours of

joke around Eli. This is a threat we must try

gets worst.' I

with me instead, at least he'd be more

a clown most of

not take the smell? It's literally sprayed on the barks of the trees. Hard to miss actually. What I'm wondering is how the hell did it get on the barks of the trees? Must've been flexible wolves- 'Eli!' I growled,

feet. There were no signs of anything. It was

if it were indeed Mary, the syringe she used to push the wolfsbane into her bloodstream would have been on her or beside her. This

look at the ground intensely, my gaze suddenly going

shook my head, confused by the

I snarled.

Something wasn't right.

my head, backing away as I try to somehow move the haziness in my eyes. The ringing in my ears gets worst until I couldn't

is happening t o us?!

happens to someone who makes a grave mistake. Did you really think I would allow you to let her go so easily?' He growled, pushing at the restraints I hold him in. Shit. He was trying to take full control

into the earth as I shook my head, hoping that it

did you do?!' I roared, gasping as I whirl around,

This was all your actions. Your fault. The farther she gets away from us, the more painful the bond will grow. Were you really that dumb to think that the bond wouldn't be against this absurd idea of

wrong?’ Eli bounds

when I casted her out. Didn't you?’ I growled at Reckon. That sleazy dog. He would do anything to get his way. To get complete control of

a lesson. She's ours and I wouldn't let her go easily! Go to her!' He roared until my

panicked voice. But the more distance Aurora seems to place between us the more intense the pain gets.

hisses, clawing at the restraints. Every second of pain is another second closer to him taking

into his human form, still on

I needed her.

Aurora.

Xavier.

It

to fight. I turn around

I hear the cracking of his bones before the sound of his

on anything other than Aurora. I snarl, digging my paws into the dirt as

the birds that scurried away when they heard me. I was growling, losing a battle with my wolf as he quickly pushes the

to look behind a barrier. "You were too slow. Too weak. I'm going to claim her!' He

could already take the scent of Aurora. We were close. And that alone makes Reckon more untameable. He growls, his paws digging into the earth as he

was trying to keep