Chapter 61: Chapter 61: Lucian Broke Down

Lucian couldn’t breathe.

The weight of it came crashing down like a tidal wave of knives. His hands clutched at his face, trying to smother the sound, trying to hold himself together—but it was no use.

He sobbed. Not the silent, restrained kind of weeping a warrior is taught to master.

No. He completely broke down.

Right there on the floor, in front of his brothers, in front of Maela and their beta, in front of the ghosts of every sin he had ever committed—Lucian wept like a man who had lost his soul.

His broad shoulders shook. His fingers tangled in his hair as if trying to rip the guilt from his skull. His breath hitched again and again and then came out as a raw cry, full of everything he had buried for years.

He didn’t care how he looked.

He didn’t care that he was supposed to be an Alpha.

Because right now—he wasn’t. He was just a broken man. A man who had shattered something irreplaceable.

His mate. His Selene.

And not just her body—not just her trust. No. He had crushed something even more fragile.

Her hope.

Her love.

Her first, innocent dream was of a boy she had believed was meant for her.


"Mammy... What if he’s my mate?"

like he could rip those words

he could just go back... Gods,

protected her," he choked out, his voice hoarse and cracked. "I should’ve trusted her...should’ve seen

the

Aeron’s face had twisted into something unreadable, his fists clenched at his sides, eyes blazing with

Lucian couldn’t

of his

it weren’t for him..." Lucian growled through gritted teeth, lifting his head just enough to let the next words out. "If that bastard hadn’t—if he hadn’t poisoned everything and

slammed his fist into the floor. The echo rang out

torture him again and again and again—until he felt even a fraction

deep down, he knew it was too late. He knew he had already lost her in the worst way a man could lose

already destroyed, and there was no undoing it. No turning back. Now he was just a fool who was clinging to


"maybe if he’d never touched our lives... she would’ve still

were wet and

been something pure," he said brokenly. "Like the way she saw me that night. Like the

bowed his

Selene..." the words barely

his name like it was magic.

lies. before his pack

had become everything she

when he was dead, we just picked up

hands curled into fists

better than him,"

caught in his

was a monster. She expected


His voice shattered.

"She loved me."

I crushed it under my

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