Sold To The Alphas I Hate novel Chapter 273

Chapter 273: I Know...I Can Feel It...

Lucian’s POV

The tears and emotions Kael had been trying so hard to hold back finally spilled out, breaking free like a dam that had reached its final limit. His breath trembled, his shoulders shaking as everything he had been holding escaped him.

"I am sorry..." he mumbled, the words choking him, barely audible. "...I am sorry... Eira..."

In response she could only cry harder, her memories resurfacing painfully, ripping through her composure.

No apology in this world could erase what she had endured, yet those three words were all any of us had. ’We are sorry’ the only thing to offer in front of a wound too deep, too unfair.

The four of us stood frozen in our places, each fighting our own storm of emotions, our own tears that refused to stop. What could we possibly do to take even a fraction of her pain away?

If Kael hadn’t needed to speak with her, I would have gone to her and pulled her into my arms, to give her even the smallest sense of comfort. And I knew—without question—the other three felt the same.

Jason, who had been like an emotionless rock for the past six years as if all kinds of emotions had died inside him, I saw him turning to face away and wiping his tears.

Regret. Guilt. Pain. It was etched into each one of us, like punishment carved with fire.

"Trust me... I never meant to hurt you..." Kael’s voice cracked, heavy with agony. "I would rather die myself. If I had even a flicker of awareness... even a moment of realization of what I was doing that night, drugged or not... I would never have touched you. I loved you even back then..." His voice broke completely, his throat closing. "...I would never have hurt you..."

Kael held her hands tightly in his, clinging to her as though losing her would end him. His head bowed over their joined hands, tears falling freely as grief and guilt suffocated him. The rest of his words never made it past his lips.

With teary eyes, she simply watched him. Then, slowly, she slipped one of her hands free and moved it... to his head.

All of us went still.

She caressed him gently.

"I know... I can feel it..." she whispered, her voice soft, trembling yet strangely steady.

What did she mean? Could she truly feel his sincerity? His regret? His love? Or was it something tied to their bond?

Kael lifted his head, stunned.

It should have been her moment to break, her moment to crumble under the weight of everything she had endured... yet she didn’t. Instead, she wiped his tears with trembling fingers and whispered again,

"I know you never lie," she said again.

Her red teary eyes were hopeful. "Until then, look after him. I will wait for him."

I could see Kael wanted to tell her the truth about Raven but...

"If you are so determined to get better, then I should not fail your resolve," Kael told her quietly, his voice steadying with purpose. "And when you feel you are entirely fine, you will see our son right in front of you."

Her breath hitched — and her eyes glimmered like that one sentence was the first warm sunlight she’d seen in years.

A trembling lips curved into a light smile. "I will wait."

"Will there be a day when you won’t hate me anymore?" Kael asked, his voice small — something I had never expected from him.

"I hated everyone that hurt me, but I don’t remember anyone except for you. Because you were someone I knew and it hurt me more." She was being honest finally.

"But now I don’t know if I even hate anyone at all." she whispered, exhausted — not just physically, but in the way a soul grows tired. "I just want to be at peace. I am tired of everything... Too tired."

There was a pleading in her voice now, asking to let her be at peace.