Bride of the Cursed Alpha (Auren and Lucien) novel Chapter 135

Chapter 135

Lucien POV

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I clenched my jaw because I didn’t want to meet him at the moment. What was the urgency? Could he not wait for a day or

two?

“Go and meet him,” Auren said, noticing my hesitation.

Irritation lacing my thoughts, I hurried downstairs to see him. The Shaman was wearing dark robes, like he had come straight from a sacred worshiping ritual. I folded my arms tightly across my chest as I looked at him warily. My pups were only a day old and I didn’t like visitors. At least for a week. “What is it?” I said sharply.

He raised an eyebrow, caution etching on his weathered face. “Alpha Lucien, I have come to talk about the curse. I feel that it still clings by its final thread to you. I strongly believe that the shadow wolves of the Eldermere hold their last say in it.”

Tension bunched in my shoulders. What else did the shadows wanted? They were about to take away my wife, my mate. “What do you mean?” I asked.

He let out a rough exhale. “The shadow wolves must see the heirs. Only then will the curse be fully broken.”

A growl rumbled deep in my chest. “You want me to take my pups–my newborn pups–to a fucking graveyard which is haunted by monsters? Where I was almost dead, lying in a pool of blood? Where my mate was lying unconscious? Now you want me to take my pups there to sacrifice them at that altar? You must be out of your mind!” Remus growled in my head. He was so angry that he wanted to break free and go on a rampage.

The Shaman held his ground. “I don’t think that the shadow wolves will harm the pups,” he insisted. “It is possible that by seeing your heirs, they will free the Shadowfang pack from the Bride Ban’s curse.”

“No!” My voice boomed in the manor. “I won’t risk the lives of my pups for a ‘maybe“”

The Shaman bowed his head with sorrow in his eyes. “Then the curse may never break.”

I stood still with my jaw clenched as fear rooted deeper than any logic. But I wasn’t going to risk the lives of my pups. Over my dead body. The Shaman left and I went back to my wife and children. The moment I saw them, every last bit of fear and anger disappeared.

“What was it?” Auren asked, looking worried.