I'm back from vacation! This will go back to regular updates again.
“I’m serious, Cedric. It’s time for you to stop blaming yourself. No one else does. My alpha blames your king and the whore, and your king blames himself. No one is blaming you. She wouldn't want you to suffer like this.” I scoffed, doubting that. “I didn’t have to be the one to try and reveal everything to her. I should have….I should have trusted your alpha more. He should have been there with me. Everything would have been fine then.” “I doubt it would have been fine,” Meldec muttered. “Not fine, but she would have blamed me or her father more than him. He wouldn’t have been in his office either for that awful woman to try to ensnare him. Ela would be here with us now, not out there somewhere, heaven knows where, defenseless and all alone.” Meldec makes a face, furrowing his brows. “You know, I don’t think the Luna is as defenseless as you all assumed she was.” “What do you mean?” Of course she is. She is so small and kind. She had to have multiple guards with her at all time
Elelira POV Looking around at all the familiar faces, I don’t know if I’m relieved or disappointed that he isn’t there. I was so nervous as we sailed in. Truth be told, I’ve been nervous and worried for days now. I have barely slept the past few days. Beretta gave me some special tea she used to drink to help her pass out when she was suffering because of her ex-mate, but even that rarely helped. I would pass out quickly, but then have lucid dreams of the last moments I was in this pack and the horror I felt seeing my mate with that horrid woman. Is that where he is at now? With that woman? “We should have skinned her alive before we left,” Val grumbled in my head, resting on the surface, ready to spring forward to defend me against anyone who tries to hurt me. “It’s never too late.” “We don’t even know if they have been together since we left. We haven’t felt the pains,” I reminded her. “We won’t feel them unless he touches her. He could just be touching himself for now and wa
I did’t know what to say or do when I saw Lachlan panting breathlessly at the start of the dock, his chest heaving like he pushed himself to the limit to get there as fast as he could.His face is more aged, worn with stress. His eyes are wide in disbelief, and I can see Killian shining in them, making Val lose some of her malice with a soft, almost inaudible whimper inside my head. “Lira,” he whispered hoarsely, moving to walk quickly towards me. I stood frozen, not sure what to do. Everyone moves to give him a clear path, but before he can reach me, just as he steps past Cedric, Jack moves to tuck my body behind his. “That’s far enough, Alpha,” Jack warns Lachlan, his aura pushing out of him, stronger than I ever felt it before in defense of me. A menacing growl leaves Lachlan. “Move.”“Not a chance. Though, I’m sure my Ela could handle herself, I don’t like the crazed look about you.”“My Ela?!” Lachlan snarls. “She’s not your anything. She’s my wife.”Jack hums deeply in his c
“The contract Lachlan had to sign with your father to bring you back to life, my princess. We were all forbidden from telling you anything. It was a blood contract. He couldn’t tell you even if he wanted to, which I’m sure he did. Actually,” Cedric took another step forward, “I know he did.”I looked at Lachlan, Val stirring in my mind, desperate to know if that was true. “You made a blood contract with the Siren King? You?” He never would have made himself vulnerable to the leader of a different race before. Why would he do such a thing with my father? “Why?” I simply asked, wanting to understand. He had never trusted other races before. Is that why he was so open to sirens in this life? Because he had to be?His eyes are imploring me; for what, I do not know. He looks so desperate, so forlorn, that I feel my eyes softening in response. The stupid mate bond has my body reacting to him, even though I don't want to. It's like I can feel Killian searching for us somehow. How he has the
“I don’t need you to keep me safe,” I whispered. “I needed you to talk to me. To listen to me.” My eyes are burning, hot tears streaming down my face. “I tried to tell you. Countless times, I tried to meet with you to tell you why you couldn’t feel the mate bond, and that I was your mate. You wouldn’t even see me. You sent me away, then would fuck one of your Leonas, making me bare that pain.” Someone gasps, and I hope Percy doesn't find offense with me saying this. I know Yasmin was often one of those women in my first life, but I also know she would never do that now in this life, especially with Percy as a mate now. That was one of the reasons I thought this was an alternate timeline or another world mirroring the one I died in. So much did change, but I was still married to the same person in the end.... “I didn’t know,” his voice cracked, tears running from the corners of his own eyes. “Seeing you when I didn't know made resisting you even harder.” “THEN YOU SHOULDN’T HAVE RES
Update is coming in the morning. I’ll try to make it a double at least. I have one chapter done now but need to edit and my eyes won’t stay open and I keep messing up my edits. Sorry guys! Lachlan POV coming first thing in the morning. Also….Would you guys like a brief look at Riley as a special? I’ve been thinking about adding a chapter about his new life, but since it’s not important for the main story, I can not decide. I was thinking a special chapter of when Riley meets Wesley for the first time, or Riley being adopted by Kent even. Maybe just to lighten things up? What would you guys want?
Lachlan POV Seeing Lira on the dock as I came running from the packhouse was like a dream come true. That dream quickly turned into a nightmare as I saw how affectionate she was with this other man, watching him whisper in her ear and seeing her smiling brightly back up at him. His hands on her bare shoulders and his protective stance he had over her made Killian snarl in my head. He was ready to take over and remove the threat by force, but then she stepped forward, instantly calming him. All Killian or I cared about was getting to our mate, only….our mate didn’t want us near. She moved away from me when I tried to touch her, and I could see Val shining through her eyes, and recognized the tension in Lira’s body, like Val was ready to take over at a moment’s notice if she felt the need. Val, for the first time, didn't want her mate either. She was protecting Lira from me. I just wanted my mate, and I thought, with everyone on my side for once, that I might actually be able to co
“You never should have said that about the betrayal pains,” Killian tells me in a dead whisper, his pain too great. “You should never have mentioned the pain you felt. You should have fallen to her feet and begged for her forgiveness. Why?” He groans. “Why did you have to try to compare pain?”“I don’t know,” I tell him, my insides shattering with each breath I take as what Lira said plays over and over again in my head. “I’m an idiot.”“You are an idiot,” he agrees, then curls inward on himself, “Mate,” he whimpers, “My poor mate.”She went through too much. Her pain is something that would have destroyed anyone else. Thinking about how she suffered, I wish I could bring back every single one of those men we killed and kill them all over again, making their pain last weeks, just like hers. I am going to kill Wayne. There is no doubt about it. I will destroy him for what he did to her. “Who are you to bring up rejections at times like this?! You have no idea what he has done for her