Bride of the Cursed Alpha (Auren and Lucien) novel Chapter 141

Chapter 140

Third POV

A month ago.

Bram had never known rage quite like this. After he had heard that Auren had got into labor, he was enraged as hell. He stormed out of his room and went to his library where he sat alone. He didn’t want to see Maris or hear her voice or smell her scent of dead rats. All he wanted was to be with Auren or think of her.

He waited for the next update from his spies. Maris came to him a few minutes ago and asked him to have dinner. But he was on his fifth glass of whiskey. Just then his spy entered and said, “Luna Auren has given birth to twins.”

The moment he heard that Auren had survived the birth and had given Alpha Lucien not one but two pups, something inside him snapped. He upended the whiskey glass in his hand. It shattered across the floor. Then he grabbed a heavy chair and hurled it at the wall. The crack of splintered wood echoed through his house.

“They should have been mine!” he growled, pacing the library like a caged beast. “My pups. My legacy. Not his.” He slammed his fist on the table. “That bitch is going to pay for this!”

Maris sat on the chair in the corner near the hearth with her arms folded across her chest. With an icy expression on her face, she watched him with narrow eyes. She hated how he thought of her all the time. “She will die,” she said coldly. “You know the curse, Bram. It claims every she–wolf who had given birth to Shadowfang heirs. She has only a few days left, maybe less.”

Bram stalked toward her. In a blink, his hand closed around her throat. He lifted her slightly, and sneered. “If you ever speak of her death with glee again, you will be the one six feet under!”

She clawed at his hand, wheezing. His wolf was gone, but he was still enough to tackle her. He let go of her and she collapsed onto the floor, gasping for air.

“How can you do this to me?” she snapped. “After all that I have done for you?”

“What you have done for me was out of pure selfish reasons,” he snarled. “Had you not come into my life and poisoned me about Auren, she would have been with me. My wolf would have been with me!”

“It’s not like you wanted to be with her!” she shouted as she cried. “I didn’t do anything you didn’t want.”

“Get out!” he shouted. “Get out, before I kill you!”

Maris got up and ran out of the library, crying. “Bastard!” she muttered as she went back to her room. She called her maids. When Reya and Hyra fluttered around her, rubbing ointments on her bruises, Reya whispered poison in her ears. “You are so much better than that lowly omega, Luna. You are smarter, prettier and you are a born Luna. Alpha Bram will realize it one day.”

Hyra chimed in. “He is caught in the past. Once the curse claims Auren, there will be no competition left.”

Their words made her smirk. “The curse will soon take her,” Maris scoffed as her bruises darkened. “Then Bram will regret what he did to me!”

When Hyra left, Reya came close to Maris. “There is one thing I wanted to say,” she said, glancing at the door.

“What?” Maris asked, lying down.

“Beta Josh wants to see you. In private.”

“What for?”

“I don’t know,” Reya replied with mischief in her eyes.

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Chapter 140

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Maris cocked an eyebrow. After a moment of pause, she said, “Ask him to meet me after midnight on the hill behind the pack’s territory.”

That night after Bram slept, intoxicated heavily, Maris sneaked out of the house. When she reached the hill behind the pack’s territory, she saw Josh over there. He was wearing only slacks with a bare chest. She walked to him and looked at him with lust in her eyes. “You wanted to see me, Josh?”

Josh’s chest rose and fell as he stared at her intensely. “You’ve heard about Auren?”

She couldn’t help it and brushed her fingers lightly over his chest. “Yes.…..“

He caught her wrist. “What do you plan to do now?”

“Depends on how you treat me,” she said suggestively.

With a low snarl, Josh grabbed her by the waist and picked her up. She curled her legs around him. “No panties,” he said, cupping her ass. He pulled his pants down and before she knew it, he impaled her on his cock.

Days passed and both of them continued having sex whenever and wherever they could. Bram was too busy mourning his loss, hating Lucien and Auren.

More days passed. She eagerly waited for the news didn’t wither. She flourished.

Auren’s demise. But nothing happened. Two weeks passed. Auren

The reports came from the spies that Auren was seen in the balcony, laughing with her pups, with Lucien, strong and healthy. The cursed bride had survived somehow.

Maris was shocked. One night as she lay naked beside Josh, she said, “Why isn’t she dead?”

Josh shrugged. “I don’t know… Something is strange though.”

A month after the pups were born, the truth dawned. The curse was broken. This time Bram descended into another fit of rage, which was worse than the last. As Maris watched him with horror, destroying every piece of furniture in their room, and as he shattered the mirror with a punch, blood trickling down his hand, she knew he was getting insane. Was he slowly getting moon crazy?

She watched him quietly. And then that night she went to Josh. In his house. “I think he will soon become moon crazy,” she said to him as he took her from behind. Sex with him was proving to be so good. Addictive. She was taking all precaution to mask his scent on her.

He scoffed. “Let him. I’m here for you!”

“No,” she breathed. “There’s something else.”

He finished inside her with a grunt. When they were lying side by side, she said, “If fate didn’t kill Auren…. I would.”

Josh snapped his gaze at her. “That would be risky. Lucien is going to destroy all of us.”