Chapter: Chapter 20: The Citadel Claudia "I am not going to leave you." My voice cracked, I felt my lower lips trembled. He had no right to demand that from me not after the night that we had. Not after everything that we have fought through to get here. I didn't want to leave him alone to die, to give in. I could see how tired he was, and he might want peace but the pain coming from the bond was entirely much. My lips parted, about to speak. I heard footsteps as they stopped at the entrance. It was Nate and Cassius. "Take her out of here. I don't want to see her." Marcellus ordered them, the shock in their eyes meant nothing to Marcellus. His expression was stern, looking away. Their legs were still fixed in one place. Marcellus glared at them, his eyes turned bloodshot, the small dark veins under his eyes were like tattooed under his eyes. "I said take her out of here!" He growled. I bet anyone outside the estate could hear him, the thunderous growl sent chills up in my spine. I wanted nothing more than to be wit
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Chapter: Chapter 19: Towards The End Claudia.I was still hung up on the night we had together. Every time I thought about it., I smile. My grin was so big that it would reach my ears. There was no amount of happiness that felt like this. My eyes were still very much closed but when I opened it, Marcellus was still sleeping. I kept caring About his it was going to affect him, he didn't show any sign of weakness even in his state. Marcellus was very commanding and through everything that occurred since I got here, he was the strongest person I know. I watched him take one breath after another like he was struggling to breathe. I was about to move my body to the other side of the bed when my hand was wrapped around his. I tried dragging my wrist, but it felt stuck for a reason. I lifted my wrist up to see a shiny red thread, wrapping our wrists together as one. "What the hell?"I heard him chuckle. "I knew you'd freak out.""Let me guess, you were not sleeping all this while." He opened his eyes as his lips stretched into
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Chapter: Chapter 18: Reminiscing PainClaudia.Now, I know the reason why you don't dig up old ghosts. It comes back to haunt you. Just as it was haunting Marcellus, I was hurting too. I am a romantic, my mother told me I give my heart away too easily, and I might get hurt. To see him shattered like this only made things worse for me. I didn't know how to console him? How do you console a man who hasn't met anything true for a long time? Just pain. I think the question should be what was really haunting him? The fact he killed her or the fact he loved her, and he ended up in her bad books as much as she did? I began to direct every thought towards myself. What if he was quick to kill me too if something happens? Maybe I was framed because I knew I would not intentionally commit a crime against him. The mate bond between us was becoming stronger, and it was difficult to resist him, the heat was going to set us ablaze soon."Maybe she didn't want to kill you. Maybe something else happened?" The sadness in his eyes were only
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Chapter: Chapter 17:The Missing Truth Claudia Silence should be his middle name but this time he was shocked. Embarrassed and curious all at once. Was the name so forbidden that I have committed a sin by mentioning it? "Where the fuck did you hear that from?""It doesn't matter, and that isn't the answer to my question." I held my ground. Despite being close to Marcel, the authority he claimed to have been what feared me. I began to question if I should have asked. It was in the way he looked at me, like I just conjured some old demons. We were at the balcony and the chills from the cold air made things worse. I couldn't imagine what it meant to him but from what I saw, it was pure pain. Pain I had never seen before. He shifted in his seat; "Inessa." A sigh followed, his shoulders stiffened and jaws remained clenched. Marcellus was the kind of person that reacted to the frustration he felt, staring at him intently, it might not be long before he transferred his aggression towards him. I blinked, turned off the assumptio
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Chapter: Chapter 16: A BurdenClaudia I kept thinking about what Nyx had said and the way to help him. I had no power left inside me to fight this curse on my own. There was an itch that I am doing this for myself and there is an iota if that that were true. I didn't want to be driven under the shelter of darkness and madness just because the curse had taken hold of Marcel. I don't even want to imagine what it was going to be like hanging on to the thread of sanity. Everything Nyx had said kept restructuring itself into me like, there was something I could do. Well there was, but I couldn't imagine how to summon the moon goddess and pleaser case to her. I don't know how to do that, knowing my lineage. I am the illegitimate daughter of Alpha Gideon and as a weak wolf there was no fight left in me to summon the moon goddess they have to be another way. I sighed, already having a slight headache thinking about this too much. On one hand I was fearful for his life, and I was scared for the bond we share. I couldn't
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Chapter: Chapter 15: A Chaotic Dinner Claudia The whole staff heard our voices as soon as we got home. Marcellus didn't want to let go because my refusal to speak was a slap on his face. I didn't get why he was hell bent on finding out what Nyx had said. I didn't want him to know anything else, seemed he had a tendency to pick a fight with anything he didn't agree with. I was stressed and my head was banging from the excessive words I have managed to use these few hours just sitting with him. We finally landed in our room and Marcellus pulled me close to him as I tried to move away from him. "Is there anything I need to know that she might have said?" I sighed, not knowing what else to say. "Whatever Elder Nyx might have said to me is none of your business. You weren't there when she was speaking. I don't see why I should tell you." I said in a low voice. "Marcellus, please I am tired. I need to rest." "You were the one that talked about lying to you and yet here you are trying to do that to me. You may not regard me
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