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?"

chest like he could rip those words

just go back... Gods, if

he choked out, his voice hoarse and

of the

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

couldn’t

of his own memory, his own

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

into the floor. The echo rang out sharp and violent, but he didn’t

him back just to torture him again and again and again—until he felt even a fraction of what she went through. What we

was too late. He knew he had already lost her

destroyed, and there was no undoing it. No


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

swallowed hard. His eyes were wet and empty

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

his

words barely escaped. "What haven’t you

cheeks flushed, voice soft as petals as she whispered his name like it was magic. That night. That moment. When everything had still

pack

become

just picked up where he left off.

curled into fists

no better than him," he hissed. "No...

sob caught in his

her father was a monster. She expected nothing from him.


His voice shattered.

"She loved me."

crushed it under my boot

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