Bride of the Cursed Alpha - Chapter 86: Chapter 86

Lucien POV
Anger flowed inside me like hot molten lava, firing my veins. I wanted to kill these bastards who had given birth to pups who attacked my Auren.
“She’s not our Luna, if you haven't marked her!” Julie’s father, Harry, shouted. “You have to treat Auren like you treat any other member in the pack!”
I lunged at him, and my hands grasped his throat. “How dare you?” I growled, my fangs slipping out. “Auren is my wife. We are legally married according to the pack laws!”
“So what?” he said, wheezing and coughing.
“Alpha Lucien!” Julie’s mother begged. “Please leave him. We didn’t know that Julie would do something like this. Trust us, no one knew.” She started crying again.
I whipped my head to look at her. Remus was again growling in my head, giving me a headache. He wanted to kill them already. ‘Kill them all!’ he said. He was demanding blood and revenge.
“I don’t believe that you didn’t know!” I snarled. “My gammas are looking into all your phone records as we speak.”
Her face paled, and she stepped back, crying even more. I turned my face to see Harry again. “Bind him in silver chains!” I commanded my warriors. Two of them rushed inside with silver chains, holding them in gloved hands.
“Why are you binding me in silver chains?” Harry said, coughing. “I’d rather die like a warrior. Kill me in a fight, Alpha Lucien. I challenge you!”
My lips lifted into a smirk. “Any day,” I said. Somehow Remus loved the idea.
The guards carried him to the arena, and I followed, glancing at Julie’s mother, who was now shaking.
I pummeled the fucking bastard in the ring. He tried to best to attack me, using various tactics, but he appeared like a fucking jester in a court. Before he could even use all his craft against me, he was on the floor with a dislocated jaw.
“Mercy…” he muttered.
I scoffed. Now the fucker plead mercy? But Remus wanted blood. He took over me in an instant. Just as he was about to kill Harry, a voice stopped him. He looked up and saw Auren entering the ring. I was scared that Remus would attack her, and gave her a warning glare, but then he stepped back on her command. She was only looking at Remus, scaring the shit out of me. This was the first time she had seen him, and this wasn't how I wanted to reveal him. But what was she doing in the arena? I had specifically asked her to stay put.
My eyes went to Gary who pulled his brother out of the ring. I opened my mind link with my warriors to take him back to the dungeons. There was complete silence in the ring. Remus growled at all those who were present, warning them to stay away from my mate. He circled the ring and snarled at all those who dared to even look at her.
‘Let’s fucking kill them. They hurt my mate,’ Remus growled. But even as he said it, he couldn’t ignore the presence of Auren. She was sitting in the center, only looking at him. Remus was a huge wolf with a slant cut that stretched from his upper right eye to the nose and stopped. Somehow that cut never manifested on my face when I was in human form. That cut along with his thick black fur and height, he was like a living nightmare. His jaw was big enough to wrap around and crush a fucking skull.
‘Keep your ridiculous notion to yourself,’ he growled. ‘I’m more handsome than you.’
I gritted my teeth as Remus turned to Auren who was still sitting on the floor. He walked to her and she reached her hand for him. No, Auren, no! I was scared as hell and pushed Remus to give me skin. But my beast pushed me down. How could he miss this opportunity? He lowered his face to his tiny, timid mate, who looked like a delicate butterfly in front of him. I was expecting panic, her running away, but she touched his jaw softly.
Remus’s chest rumbled with approval as he closed his eyes, basking under the touch of his mate. ‘She’s so soft,’ he said and took a step closer. And then what he did next, made my heart leap out of my chest.
He sat down right in front of her like a puppy. She brought both her hands to him and cuddled him, scratching his fur on the neck and head. God damn it. Remus was never going to give me my skin back now. He wagged his tail, purring like a cat, basking under the warm feeling that flooded his chest.
Auren wasn't afraid of us at all.
“You're so beautiful,” she breathed.
My need to mark and claim her turned ferocious. Remus lifted his head and licked her face all over as she giggled. But then he licked her neck and his chest rumbled. He bared his fangs to mark her.
‘Remus, no!’ I shouted at him.
‘She is still weak. She may die!’
‘Mine,’ he growled. ‘She’s mine.’
‘Yes, she is ours!’
“Alpha Lucien, people are here from the council.” My thoughts got interrupted by Tarian’s voice.
Auren turned her head to look at the warriors who were standing in a line outside the ring. She grasped my fur, scrambling closer. I smelled her fear, and it twisted my stomach. Remus growled at the warriors and they didn’t dare to enter the ring. He placed his giant paw on Auren's lap as if protecting her.
Tarian repeated, “Alpha Lucien, messengers from the High Council are here.”
I looked at him and my gaze shifted to people behind him.
‘Why are people from the High Council here?’ Remus asked as he placed another paw on her lap. She was now leaning against him, staring at Tarian and other warriors. Goddess, my little wolf was so powerful that she kept me bound to her. I was truly whipped worse than cream, wrapped around her little finger.
‘I don’t know,’ I murmured.
“Alpha Lucien,” a wolf from the High Council, came forward and called me. “We have to speak with you.”
I growled a warning and he stepped back in fear.
“What do you want?” Auren asked, her fear returning with full force.
“Miss Auren Vaslof, please step out of the ring. You’ve been charged.”
“Charged with what?” she asked, her eyes going wide.
‘Something isn’t right,’ Remus growled.
The official looked at me and then back at Auren. A muscle ticked in his jaw. “You stand accused of the heinous crime of cold-blooded murder of Sable Brown and four other wolves, slain in broad daylight. We have come here to arrest you.”