Chapter Four

Brielle’s POV 

 

“You ran from the Crescent pack and dared to come to Eclipse. Some nerve you have,” Zane blurted angrily. 

 

“I didn't mean to come here, the tides brought me here,” I responded crying my eyes out because I felt like I had walked into my death, and judging by the stories, it was going to be a death far worse than Chase. 

 

Lucien turned around to place new wood in the burning fire. That was when I confirmed that he was indeed the alpha when I saw the alpha tattoo on his back. 

 

 

“You fell from the edge of the cliff at Crescent?” Lucien asked with his gaze fixated on the burning wood. 

 

“Not fall, I jumped off it. It was either that or face torture from Chase.” I responded. 

 

“There is no way anyone can survive that fall. It's impossible,” Zane protested

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“You are lying!”He added in a loud voice, sounding furious. 

 

“I'm not lying.” I cried out even louder as my panic level increased. 

 

“Did you know that your Alpha Chase once had a bride? My sister Laurel was in love with Chase. She looked over the fact that he wasn't her mate and loved him with all of his heart.” Lucien explained. He walked up to me, staring into my eyes with his fierce gaze. 

 

“And do you know what he did?” He grunted. I nodded ignorantly at the question. 

 

“He tormented her, made her his Puppet. Forced her into depression until she took her own life falling from that very cliff you jumped.” He growled. 

 

“Laurel was my twin, the strongest being I had ever seen. How come she died while you, a puny fragile girl, survived?” Zane said. 

 

“I don't know, the last thing I recalled before here was jumping. I don't know how I survived.” I responded. 

 

“I don't want another war with the Crescent pack. At dawn, I am sending you back to Chase.” Lucien decreed. 

 

“Please don't let me go back! Please, he would kill me.” I cried out. 

 

“We can't break the peace treaty we had brokered with the Crescent because of you. So, try to rest easy. We leave at first light.” Zane responded. 

 

“Brielle? I hope you understand that thousands of people's lives are on the line here. I can't put my pack in jeopardy.” Lucien explained. I opened my mouth to reply but there were no words. 

 

“I'm sorry for the trouble,” I apologized. 

 

Lucien lay down close to where the fire was while Zain looked troubled and restless. 

 

“You can't sleep like that,” He remarked as he came with the key to my chain to free me. 

 

“I never knew about your sister,” I spoke out, breaking the uncomfortable silence between us. 

 

“It wasn't public knowledge,” He replied as he tried removing the chain that was wrapped around the tree.

 

“Did you find your true mate or was it Chase ?” He asked while he freed me. 

 

“No! Maybe I don't have or maybe I am just destined to be somebody's flesh bag.”I responded.

 

He tied the chains around my hands and legs but this was more comfortable than being strapped to a tree.

 

“What about you?” I asked. 

“Not yet but she's out there I can feel her close by every day.” He replied as he lay facing me. 

 

“What about your brother? I heard the great Alpha Lucien is a killer who raped and wedded all the Lunas from all alphas he had butchered.”  I started with a smile I had to put on to make the question less awkward. 

 

I was still scared of the brothers but I couldn't die with all these blank spaces in my mind. 

 

Lucien, who I had thought was asleep, scoffed at my statement. 

“I had a mate.” He voiced. 

 

“Had?” I asked, confused as to why he had mentioned it in past tense. 

 

“And he doesn't go around raping or killing. It's just a lie spread by the council.” Zane stated. 

 

“The council? I questioned, sounding very clueless like a foreigner. 

 

“The council of alphas is made up of all the alphas in the werewolf realm. They make silly demands and kill as they deem please. it's like a cult with no leader and all leaders” Zane explained. 

 

Then it became clear to me that they had been spreading the rumors about Lucien just because he didn't want to join their Alpha cult. 

 

 

“So as you can see, I am…” 

 

Lucien got interrupted by roars coming from the woods. It sound was coming from all around us. 

 

“Wild beasts, I think the one we killed belonged to a pride!” Lucien panicked. They both stood up ready to fight against the pride of wild mountain lions that had surrounded us. 

 

“Brother! There are so many of them!” Zane exclaimed loudly. 

“Free me! I can help.” I voiced in a shaky tone. I was scared because the growls were getting closer. 

 

“Can you shape-shift ?” Lucien asked. 

“What?” I panicked because he had asked what I was safe about. 

 

“It's a full moon, Brielle! Can you shapeshift?” He blurted. 

“No! I can't!” I responded swiftly. 

 

“You are a grown werewolf and you can't shape-shift? How is that even possible?” Zane lashed out angrily. 

 

In an instant, both brothers' clothes ripped to pieces as fur came out from their flesh. Their palms turned into paws while their faces grew whiskers. They growled and roared in pain as I heard the sound of their bones breaking into pieces forming a wolf. 

 

They turned around to look at me with their blood-red eyes. Lucien appeared to be the black wolf while Zane was the wolf with the brownish fur. 

 

I was still admiring the amazing transformation of the alpha brothers when two mountain lions had a jump on us. 

 

It was a battle between savage beasts as the brothers tried to overpower the wild mountain lions. I tried to break loose from my chains but it was made too tight. 

 

I was still struggling with it when I heard a loud growl behind me. I turned to see red glowing eyes staring at me from the bushes. 

“Help!” I yelled as the wild beast ran to attack. It was about to pounce on me when Zane intercepted it mid-air. 

 

I was able to get my hands loose from the chain but my legs were still stuck. The mountain lion had overpowered Zane, biting all over him. 

 

It turned to me with its fierce blood-red eyes. I almost blacked out as my body began trembling. I closed my eyes as soon as I saw it coming to attack. 

 

I had accepted my fate but was shocked when I heard a loud squirm. I opened my eyes to see Lucien in front of me guarding me like an angel with the mountain lion slayed at its feet. 

 

I looked at his black beautiful fur and I felt drawn to it. It was like a spark within me was ignited when I placed my hands on it. 

 

My body felt electrocuted as soon as my fingers came in contact with him. His wolf form looked at me like he had felt the same shock I did. 

 

My heart began racing as sweat covered my body. I felt an undeniable pull to him like I had been searching for him all my life. 

 

In an instant, he transformed back into a human with his eyes widened and jaws dropped in shock. 

“What was that?” I asked, looking around confused. 

 

“How did you do that?”  Lucien asked angrily. 

“I didn't do anything,” I responded, still confused by what had happened. 

 

“What happened?”Zane, who had also shape-shifted back into a human, asked. 

“Brother, what did she do?”

 

“We just mate bonded,” He responded with eyes wide open in disbelief. 

 

“She can't be my mate,” Alpha Lucien doubted out loud.