The Alpha's Unclaimed Mate novel Chapter 669

Chapter 669: Who The Hell Is Catching Her?

"She moved out of your chambers. She broke her chosen tie with you. She looked at the man she loves, the man she CHOSE, and told him to love another woman." Lucian’s jaw trembled and he locked it. "Have you ever thought about what that moment actually felt like for her? Because I have. I’ve thought about it every night since."

Tristan’s eyes narrowed.

"You think I don’t already know that my wife is hurting? You think I don’t see it? That I am that wrapped up in my own suffering that I am blind to it?" His volume increased with every word until he was yelling. "YOU KNOW NOTHING. SHE IS MINE. MY WIFE. I KNOW HER."

"Then ACT like it!" Lucian roared back, and the roar surprised both of them because Lucian didn’t roar, Lucian controlled, Lucian modulated, and the modulation had just blown its last fuse. "If you know her, then you know she’s drowning. If you know her, then you know she won’t ask for a lifeline. If you know her, then you know that every day you spend fighting the dark magic and ignoring her is a day she spends convincing herself she wasn’t worth fighting for."

"Don’t you DARE tell me I’m ignoring her."

"You’re not ignoring her. You’re LOSING her. There’s a difference and the difference is that ignoring is a choice and losing is what happens when a man is so buried under his own destruction that he can’t see the woman next to him building her own grave."

Tristan’s chest heaved. His eyes were red. His fists were shaking at his sides.

"She is my WIFE."

"She is your wife. And she is my matebond. And she is ALONE, Tristan. She is alone in a palace full of people because the man she chose is being eaten alive and the man who was chosen for her can’t speak. So who is helping her? Who is catching her? WHO?"

The silence that followed was the loudest sound either of them had ever heard.

"Your wife told you to love another woman," Lucian said, breaking the silence after a long moment. "And it destroyed her but she did it anyway because your survival mattered more to her than her own heart. She walked out of that room and fell apart in a hallway where nobody could see, and she put herself back together, and she came out SMILING, Tristan. She came out smiling like she hadn’t just killed the best thing in her life with her own hands."

"She smiled after she left?" The question came out of Tristan in pieces.

The veins receded. Slowly. Reluctantly. Like a predator retreating but keeping eye contact.

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