Bride of the Cursed Alpha (Auren and Lucien) novel Chapter 125

Chapter 125

Auren POV

The wall behind me groaned as it slid open with a grind over the stone. A burst of cool air hit my back and dim light spilled from the hidden passage behind me. It illuminated the darkness I was in. A dangerous growl erupted and Lucien stepped out. The moment he was there, I couldn’t help hurling myself in his arms. He wrapped his left arm around my waist and pulled me closer. My legs were shaking. I buried my face in his chest, clutching him as if I’d never let him go. When I looked over my shoulder at Sable, I saw that she had paled. Her mouth dropped wide open and her arms hung loosely around her with knives in them.

“H–how did you get here?” she asked bewildered as she stared at the wall behind us.

Lucien looked over my head as his eyes locked onto Sable. His fury was palpable through our bond. I could feel that he wanted to rip her apart. “Through the passage,” he said. “A secret only the Alpha of the North knows. You really thought we would let you roam unchecked?”

Without a warning, Sable lunged at us, her knives lifted high in the air. But before she could reach me, Lucien shoved me behind him and ducked. Using full force, he swung his fists at her ribs. On impact, Sable cried loudly as she flew in the air and crashed on the shelves behind her. Books and journals dropped over her. Next instant, she pushed past those books and emerged, shaking on her feet with madness in her eyes. “But… how? How did you find out?” she asked, unable to believe that we had foiled her plans.

Suddenly, the door burst open and Tarian walked in. Before Sable had a chance to turn, he twisted her arm behind. She let out a shriek as she dropped her knives. Then Tarian caught her throat and peeled off her prosthetic mask. “I knew it!” he rasped.

Sable snapped her head at me. “You fucking bitch, you think that you have won. No. I have made sure that there is mayhem in this entire pack!”

“Oh, we know!” I said, straightening up. “Dr. Elias insisted on my blood test. And guess what? The results showed a rare hallucinogen, which is banned in the market, but it is available in the black market.” I continued as I took a step toward her. Lucien was beside me like my protector. “We wondered how I was poisoned. And the only way was to add it to the food. The guards searched all the omega quarters. And when we reached your room-” My lips curled into a sneer. “The same drug was found hidden in your dresser. After that, everything that has happened here, Belle,” I spat her false name. “You thought you were trapping me, but all this time, we were laying the trap for you.”

“You don’t know me!” Sable hissed. “You don’t know what I’ve done. You have only scratched the surface of my plan. It goes so deep that you can’t even fathom!” She smiled wickedly. “Even if you kill me, this entire place, this house, the omegas, the training arena–they’ll die. I have planted rune explosives everywhere. You’re all going to burn!”

I gave her a cold smile. “We know what you’ve done, Sable,” I said.

Her eyes widened as she froze. Tarian stepped back and crossed his arms across his chest. He could have snapped her neck anytime, but I wanted to tell her that she took us for fools, but she was the biggest fool.

“We tracked your movement over the last two days,” I said. “We watched your every step. The explosives you are talking about? Walter disarmed the one near the training arena, and planted them in the prison which holds your family instead. The explosion you heard came from the dungeons. Your family must have toasted by now.”

“No!” she rasped, trembling like a waif. “No! NO!” she screamed, rage overtaking her. “You’ll pay for this!”

Without a warning, Sable shifted. In a few seconds, her wolf stood in front of me, lips peeled back in a vicious snarl. My throat turned dry.

‘Sienna, I said. ‘Can I shift?‘

“No!‘ her panicky voice came. ‘Our pup!‘

Sable’s wolf launched herself at me. But she never reached me. Beside me, Lucien exploded into Remus. His transformation was shockingly instant. One moment he was standing next to me, and the next, his black wolf stood before me as he intercepted her mid–air with a thunderous crash of bodies colliding.

They both crashed down on the ground with jaws and claws snapping at each other. She tried to move past him to reach me, but Remus was sharp. He caught her movements. He struck her. One heavy swipe of his paw knocked her to the ground. When she tried to get up, he bit her on her shoulder, lifted her with his jaws locked in her flesh, and threw her across the room. She let out a yelp as she crashed on the wall. She got up and headed out, but this time she had to face Tarian who had also shifted into his wolf.

Scared and trembling, she was now between the most fearsome wolves of America. Suddenly, she dashed at ninety degrees to them and came for me. But Remus was faster. He attacked her, his jaws clasping around her neck. I heard a squelch of flesh. And Sable was hanging limp in Remus’s jaw with his fangs sunk into her.

With a deafening snark, Remus padded to me and laid dead Sable in my feet as if offering me in reverence. And then he tipped his head up and let out a thunderous roar Everything and everyone went silent for a moment.

With shaky hands, I stepped over Sabie’s wolf and reached my beautiful mate. I curled my hands around his neck, digging my nails in his fur as tears spilled from my eyes. His chest rumbled as he stood there with my face buried in his neck.