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?"

clawed at his chest like he could rip those

go back... Gods,

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

the

his fists clenched at his sides, eyes

couldn’t

of his

to let the next words out. "If that bastard hadn’t—if he

The echo rang out sharp and violent,

Lucian spat, voice trembling with fury. "I’d bring him back just to torture him again and again and again—until he felt even a fraction of what

knew it was too late.

hollow. Hopeless. Because everything that mattered was already gone, already destroyed, and there was no undoing it. No turning back. Now he was just a fool who was clinging to


if he’d never touched our lives...

swallowed hard. His eyes were wet

could’ve been something pure," he said brokenly. "Like the way she

his

words barely escaped.

as petals as she whispered his name like it was magic. That night.

lies. before his pack was destroyed. Before

he had become everything

he was dead, we just picked up where he left

hands curled into

him," he hissed. "No...

sob caught

father was a monster. She expected nothing


His voice shattered.

"She loved me."

crushed it under

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