The Witch and Her Four Dangerous Alphas

Chapter 52: Chapter 52: The Truth Revealed

Author’s POV ~

Lucian let out a gurgled gasp, pain etched deep into his face as the silver hissed against his skin, burning straight through muscle and bone. Smoke curled from the wound, the scent of scorched flesh thick in the air. But none of the brothers dared to move.

They were too afraid—too stunned by the scene in front of them. Too terrified that she would really twist the dagger through Lucian’s heart. Even with an Alpha’s regenerative ability, healing from silver took time. It was a cruel burn—slow, searing, agonizing.

"Selene..." Aeron’s voice cracked, laced with panic and helplessness. "Leave the dagger... we can talk. Calmly."

His expression twisted in pain. His brother was bleeding before his eyes, and yet—across from him stood his mate. The one the moon had chosen. The woman whose scent stirred something primal in his soul. Torn. He was utterly torn. Aeron didn’t know whom to reach for—his brother, or his mate.

He could only try to ease her rage, but Selene... Selene looked like a woman who had already made up her mind.

"What’s there to talk about?" she asked, her voice drenched in bitterness, followed by a laugh so hollow it rang like a curse. "Aeron, everything is over."

She laughed at her own fate, laughed like it was the cruelest joke the gods ever played.

Mated.

Not to one—but to all of them.

All of them, who had taken turns ruining her life. All of them, who had marked her—branded her like a slave for a sin she had never even committed.

Now what was left to say? What was left to salvage? They were all equally vile in her eyes.

"No..." Luca stepped forward slightly, his voice soft, coaxing—far too gentle for the storm she carried inside her. "Selene, you are our mate. This is just the beginning... We can start again. We’ll forget the past. You should let go of Lucian."

too calm.

Forget?

dagger didn’t loosen—if anything, she dug it deeper, just to hear

Forget everything?

really are full of

sharper. "Now I wish it was you in his place, Luca. Maybe then

of his mouth twitching with something

fury. "How dare you even think I’d

freeze the room.

of her hate

him. "Mates are meant to be together.

her, barely conscious but even he growled faintly at the sound of her

Selene didn’t feel fate. She

She felt chains.

She felt betrayal.

the Moon Goddess," she spat. "Where was she when I was crying for help? When I was being stripped of everything?

you pretend like nothing ever happened. Like I should just walk into

Her tears

whispered, breath hitching. "I’m

meant it. Every

sound

were rejecting the very idea of her leaving. The bond rebelled

But Selene was done.

play happy family with men who turned blind when I needed them the most. Men who couldn’t even tell right