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?"

he could

go back... Gods,

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

of the others

into something unreadable, his fists

couldn’t see

of

lifting his head just enough to let the next words

slammed his fist into the floor. The echo rang out sharp and violent,

back just to torture him again and again and again—until he felt even a

every ragged breath, but all his rage was useless. Because deep down, he knew it was too late. He knew he had already lost her in the worst way a man could lose someone—by being the

Hopeless. Because everything that mattered was already gone, already destroyed, and there was no


lives... she would’ve still looked at me like that. Like I was

His eyes were wet and empty all

said brokenly. "Like the way she

his head

words barely escaped.

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

lies. before his pack was destroyed. Before

he had become everything she

up where he left off. We turned her into a caged bird

curled into fists

no better than him," he hissed. "No... I’m

sob caught in his

least she knew her father was a monster. She expected nothing from him. But


His voice shattered.

"She loved me."

at me with a pure heart, and I crushed it under

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