Bride of the Cursed Alpha - Chapter 54: Chapter 54

Lucien POV
The moment Elder Ryna took Auren away to her house, my chest felt empty. It was like my soul had left home.
I was this close to coming in my pants. My cock was so painfully hard. Her hands on it had my wolf going mad with needs.
So I protested hard to Ryna, but when Auren insisted on following the traditions, I had to let her go. Before leaving she stood on her toes and kissed my chin. I forgot to breathe. It was just a kiss, but enough to rattle my soul.
She had gone for no more than ten minutes and my restlessness began. I began pacing the room. Remus urged me to break the rules and go to her. I clenched and unclenched my fists, arguing with him to calm down because we were going to see her in a few hours, but the fucker was going crazy inside me. It was difficult to tame a beast like Remus. He was the strongest wolf in the North and his only desire was to be with Auren. Fighting a battle with him was an issue.
Tarian had warned me via mind link that I was prohibited to meet her and that there were over fifty warriors to stop me at Ryna’s home. As if that would stop me from meeting her.
I spent the rest of the afternoon pacing my room, going around my house, barking at others for no reason, but I always ended up on the balcony of my room, looking in the direction of the house where Auren was. The wind carried her scent and it was enough to make my body tighten with longing. She was so close, yet I couldn’t reach her. It was unbearable. My hands curled into fists and my claws extended, threatening to puncture my skin and draw blood.
‘She is ours,’ Remus growled. ‘We should be with her. I want to go to my mate.’
I reasoned with him. ‘Just a few hours. And then she would be ours forever.’ But patience was a cruel thing.
Tarian’s voice snapped me from my thoughts.
‘What?’ I barked at him. He was at the venue overseeing the wedding preparations.
‘I just came to know from Elder Ryna that Maris visited Lady Auren.’ And then he told me what all she said. It hurt me that Auren didn’t say a word about it to me and as usual suffered alone. But not this time.
My fury returned tenfold greater. Before I knew it, I was marching to my garage, ordering my warriors to follow me to Bram’s hotel. We reached the hotel and I stormed inside with my warriors. The hotel owner bowed, blanching. He quickly gave me the spare room keys of Bram’s room. I barged inside Bram’s room only to find him rutting Maris. She shrieked and picked up a sheet to cover herself as Bram’s eyes widened.
“What is the meaning of this?” Bram shouted.
I strode to Maris and grabbed her throat with my left hand. Lifting her in the air, I growled, “You dared to threaten my Luna?”
“A-Alpha Lucien—” she sputtered.
Before she could speak another word, I threw her across the room. “You told her that you would kill her?” I closed the gap between us, picked her up and hurled her across the room. She screamed as she hit the wall on the opposite side and slumped down, howling in pain.
Then I turned my attention toward Bram. He had paled. Good. The bastard didn’t have the guts to save her. I crunched my neck side to side as I glared at him. “I heard that you won't be giving away Auren as my bride. Now—” I said in a low, dangerous voice. “Where are your manners? Why won't you follow the traditions?”
“I—I—”
Before he finished his sentence, I pounced on him, and unleashed my rage with full force. He tried to fight me because he was also an Alpha, but he was no match against me. I broke his arm, crushed his skull and dislocated his shoulder. It was just enough to not get healed and walk with Auren down the aisle as he remembered my wrath. Plus, I wanted to show Auren how I tackled him.
Once I was done, I said in a lethal voice, “No one threatens my Luna and gets to walk away. Remember it for your life, numbnut! You will walk her down the aisle and leave this pack immediately after. Don’t even think of coming back. I am sparing you just this time only because of Auren and the treaty.”
With a final glance, I turned to leave, cracking my knuckles as I ordered my warriors to call a pack doctor to tend to him.
My beast felt better after releasing all his aggression. However, that was short-lived. Back home, I paced for hours until Dahlia’s assistants came to dress me up.
At the venue, her surprise to see Bram made me chuckle. When she was in front of me, I took her trembling hands immediately, unable to not touch her even a second longer. And where our skin touched, tingles sparked, warmth spread through my chest, powerful and all-consuming, and both me and my wolf calmed.
During the ceremony of sealing bond, something inside me shifted. It was like things snapped into place like a missing piece of my soul had returned. The feeling was overwhelming. She was mine now in every way that mattered. Then something strange happened. For a split of a second, the tattoos on my body prickled sharply, leaving me ruffled.
The Shaman asked me to kiss her, which meant I should mark her. My wolf growled possessively, ‘Mark her. She belongs to us.’
But I couldn’t. The curse hung over us like a shadow. If I marked her she would die within a year. So I clenched my teeth, battling against Remus who was growling, clawing inside at my mind, furious and desperate. ‘She is ours. We can’t let her go unclaimed.’
‘I know!’ I roared back at him.
Amidst all the internal battle, I looked at Auren. She didn’t know how close I was to losing control. I couldn’t risk her life. So I lifted her veil. Her lips parted with a shaky breath. And then I clutched the back of her neck, pulled her closer, and kissed her. My entire body was tense as my blood burned with need. I deepened the kiss, tasting her, savoring her, claiming her in the only way I could.
Had Tarian not interrupted, I would have carried her home. But the ceremony wasn't over. The Shaman made us do more rituals after which my pack members erupted in cheers. We came to the grand hall where the celebration started. Music played, people danced, had food and drinks. Everyone came to congratulate us. Auren stood beside me, looking overwhelmed. I didn’t let go of her hand. She danced with me, giggling, and I realized that she had two left feet. So I picked her up by the waist and danced. It was such a beautiful moment. And my wolf was purring inside me.
When she was tired, I made her sit on my lap not caring of people staring at me in shock. Her body relaxed against mine and her head was on against my chest. Even sitting on my lap, she didn’t reach my shoulder. I kissed the crown of her head. “Do you want to go home?”
She yawned cutely. “Yes…”
Goddess, I was so ready to take her to my room. But Tarian came to me. “Alpha, some of the Alphas are going tomorrow. They want to meet you before leaving.”
Damn it. I didn’t want to go.
“Go,” Auren urged with a beautiful smile, and I yielded. When I returned, I saw that she had paled like a ghost and was visibly shaking.