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“I told her not to leave the pack house. Send someone to help her pack and another in a few hours.” He pinched his glabella. “Clover is not the girl we used to not know. This is me letting her off easily for all she has done. I could and should have been harsher with her. Let’s her consider this as my way of repaying her for all she has done for me.” He ended the call with a click then his eyes fixed on me.
“I have sent Clover away. There is nothing between the two of us and I would hate for you to have the wrong view about things.” He got out of his seat and came to perch on the armrest of my seat.
“You are everything to me, little moon.” He k!ssed my cheeks. “I love you. I am not certain how to convince you that you mean more to me than the world itself but you do.”
“It doesn’t change the fact that I have to see Lucien,” I protested even though I already felt weak in the knees. My whole body felt warm.
“I do not want you anywhere near that boy.” He stood. “Since you are hell-bent on going, I have no choice but to go with you.” He didn’t sound or look happy.
The temperature in the room dropped. His l!ps pursed and his words were unnecessarily sharp. I stood up and followed after him as he strode out of his office with stiff shoulders.
The drive to the dungeons was silent. I didn’t want to say anything because I felt the displeasure radiating off him throughout the ride. He kept stealing glances at me but I pretended not to notice because I feared I might ask him to turn around to please him. His irritation pricked my skin and made my wolf pace.
“We are almost there,” he said, breaking the stretch of silence.
“We can ” I swallowed down but it was too late. I spoke without meaning to. “We can turn back if you don’t want to do this,” I said, facing him for the first time since the trip started.
“No, you are right. I should treat you like my Luna. An equal.” He winced after he said that. “I am not used to any of this. I have not had an equal in my life. These things are hard for me,” he mused.
“You don’t have to explain yourself. It’s written all over your face. You struggle with relinquishing control.” I leaned back into my seat after I spoke, propping my cheek on my palm.
“I am the Alpha. How am I supposed to relinquish control?” His words were flat. “And after the incident, I just want to place bubble wraps around you. I have to protect you, Aysel, you have to let me protect you.”
“Valens, it’s just Lucien,” I emphasized his name. “What can he do to me when you are there?” I asked.
“Not everything is physical.” My brows scrunched at that. He muttered something under his breath that seemed to piss him off even more. “It’s frustrating that I cannot protect you from everything.”
“I have magic now. If he tries anything funny, I’ll set him on fire,” I said in a confident voice even though the only times I’d ever been able to produce magic were the times I got extremely emotional.
“It’s not that,” Valens sighed. “How will you react when you see him again? When the memories you are trying to work through resurface, what then? I do not want to see you hurt, Sagira. I cannot protect you from them.”
“I ” Things made sense then. “I’ll be fine, I promise.” I placed a hand on his and squeezed.
The second my feet touched the grounds in the dungeons, my heart started to race. Valens cut me a sharp look but I just smiled. Maybe I wasn’t ready. Maybe I didn’t want to see Lucien so early. Maybe I didn’t want to see him alive.
“Alpha. Luna,” a man greeted us as we passed but I was barely aware of my surroundings.
We stopped in front of Lucien’s cell and a guard came to open the door. His head was bent while we approached but he raised his head once we entered. Our eyes met. Valens was right. The pin was too much.
I looked at him and I saw the boy that fought for me as a child. That image quickly faded to show the man that put his hands on me after drugging me. I didn’t know what or how it happened. One minute I was staring at him and in the next, the cold cell resounded with the smack of my palm against his bloodied cheek.
“It wasn’t supposed to be like this,” he said, his head hanging to the side and his voice cracked. “I swear to you, it wasn’t supposed to be like this. I never meant to hurt you.” He raised his head and looked at me.
When I didn’t say anything, Lucien turned to Valens. “Alpha, it was all Skylar’s idea-“
“I am not your Alpha,” Valens cut him off, his voice hard.
“Can you give us a minute?” I turned to Valens.
“No,” he answered without missing a beat.
“Please,” I begged him with my eyes to understand.
I needed to talk to Lucien. Only then would I get the closure my heart desperately craved. Despite how much he had hurt me and how much I hated him, I could never forget we had been best friends. I needed to know when he became comfortable with hurting me the way he did. I wanted to know what happened.
“Aysel, I’m sorry, but I cannot.” He looked solemn. His eyes also begged me to understand. “I cannot leave you with him. My wolf will not allow it.”
“Very well.” I turned back to Lucien who already had his eyes on me. “What did I ever do to you? When did we fall off?” It was something I used to ponder in the early days of the end of our friendship.
We’d been so close. Lucien was everything to me. Why did I suddenly stop being important? When did he start to hate me?
“I was stupid. I’m sorry. I never meant it was never to be like this, I promise. I I ” He looked at Valens and decided Valens shouldn’t hear what it was that he had to say.
“You can’t tell me you never expected this,” my heart raced as I spoke, beating fast for reasons I couldn’t pinpoint.
I wasn’t scared of Lucien. Now anymore. His hands were chained and Valens’ presence beside me calmed me but my heart still raced. I chalked it up to anger. I was angry at him. He’d ruined me in a way I never expected to be ruined; done something to me that I never expected from anyone, least of all him.
“What did you think would happen when you lured me there? You said you loved me but you how could you do that to me?” My voice cracked on that statement. Valens put his hands around my shoulders.
“It wasn’t supposed to be like this.” His eyes looked redder than they did when he first looked at me. “I love you, Aysel. You were mine before he came along!” Even with his weakened state, he could still muster up a look of fierce hatred for Valens.
“The goddess gave you to me and I know I messed up.” He sounded defeated. “I only wanted to fix things.” His head bent. I felt maniacal laughter building in my guts but I held it back, pressing my lips together firmly.
“You rejected me,” I felt the need to remind him. “You said I wasn’t worth it. You spit in my face and forced me to accept your rejection.” Valens’ hand went stiff around me. “You broke me but that wasn’t enough for you, was it?” Some of the laughter spilt from my lips.
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