Bride of the Cursed Alpha (Auren and Lucien) novel Chapter 81

Chapter 81

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The Shaman had called me on an urgent basis last night. I didn’t want to mystery behind her birthmark, which was very important for me.

Auren, but I knew that I had to go. He was there to uncover the

Every day she was near, my craving deepened. It was like an ache that coiled tightly in my y chest. Remus prowled beneath my skin, restless, agitated, demanding what was ours. Her intoxicating scent clung to me like a torment I couldn’t escape. I didn’t want to escape. When her soft gray eyes looked at me, speaking a silent surrender, it took everything inside me not to give in

It was my fear that gnawed at me. What if she couldn’t take my mark? But the need that burned inside me was unbearable. Every second without me marking her felt like a war I was losing.

When Freached the Eldermere nains. I saw that my warriors were standing all around it, their faces etched with tension.

“The Shaman is at the altar, Tarian said as he guided me inside.

This was the third time I had come here, and couldn’t help feeling the familiar oppressive darkness. It was like it was pressing its cold hands on me. I took a deep breath as I followed Tarian inside.

The Shaman was standing near the altar, watching something through the dome above it at an angle. “This is what I’ve been thinking,” he murmured

went to stand near him and looked at the open roof from where we could clearly see the sky where the moon hung low. It was bizarre how it had den edges when seeing it from here. It seemed shackled by the thorny vines that surrounded the altar and its columns. Goosebumps lined my skin as it reminded me of Auren’s birthmark.

“Are you thinking what I am thinking?” the Shaman asked.

I couldn’t even reply. This could be a great coincidence or nothing at all. But I refused to believe that it was nothing.

Shaman pointed at the moon. “I was waiting for it to become full before calling you. Can you make out how it looks like it is shackled by the thorny vines! Just like her tattoo! This could be an indication.”

I stepped closer. “Indication of what?” I asked, my eyes going wide as I studied the pattern.

He took a deep breath in “That Auren is the one. She is key to breaking the curse.”

I went utterly still My breath halted, my world shifting beneath my feet. My muscles tensed. “Auren” I said as my mind warred between hope and fear. I felt violently protective toward her. If she was the answer, then danger lurked closer than I thought. Remus growled inside me, demanding to luck her away, to shield her from my enemies who would stop at nothing. If she was the key, then fate had just painted a bigger target on her back. “How can you be so sure?” I asked, my voice raspy

“I called the Shaman of the Crimson Howl pack and asked about Auren.” He walked away from me, studying the alur, as he circled it. “He said that Auren was found at the steps of the Moon Goddess temple in his pack with a gold chain and a ring. He had given her to a caring couple to take care of her. The couple died while saving their Alpha. The Alpha was kind enough to allow he to study, but when Alpha Bram took over, spiraled down. You know the rest.”

“She is adopted?” I asked with disbelief.

her life

“Yes, she was adopted. The Shaman doesn’t know where she came from though he tried to find her real

parents. She has had that tattoo on her back since birth Apprehensive, he warned her adoptive parents not to reveal it to anyone, because it was a curve”

to me. I don’t know why

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I dropped on my knees, stabbing my fingers in my hair. The Moon Goddess sure knew her way around to bring Auren to the taught made my eyes sting with tears. Auren always belonged to me.

“Now-” Shaman continued. “This is all a speculation, but chances are that Auren is the one this pack has been seeking to break the curse. That would mean that she has become the prime property of the pack. She should be protected at all costs. Arul you should mark her as soon as

“So what other evidence do you ured

to prove dut it in the truth?” I asked. All I wanted was to go back to her and mark her. To declare the world fat that was my mate. Hemus was growling in my head to run back to her.

“I want to stay back and see something else. For that I need you. You have to open your clothes and sit in front of the altar.”

“What? Why?”

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“Hecause you have the same tattoo, she has, all over your body” He looked up at the moon. “I can sense spirits here. The shadow wolves. I want to see their re

Creaction to your tattoos. If what I think will happen, then Auren is definitely the one.

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my jaw because it was taking

gall my energy to not run to her. But still betaine i wanted to ascertain this fluding, Lagreed. I opened my

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to appear. Auten had related to me that they appeared when she was here. I was

shes and kat in front of the altar, waiting for the shadow wobers to a

but they would comeback. For me

† heard the best loss in less than an hour shadows emerged from the crack in the altar. As Farian and the Shuman stepped back. I stayed there with cien, best fists. The shadows morphed intta sinaky wolves anil walked around me, hisiting and licking me, entering my mouth anul nose. There was =ppers huge in the air. So dark and cold that it felt like it would split my head into two. This was what Auren must have felt

rejected the thoon bond “they hissed:

(we want blood”

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