The Shattered Dawn — Harvey Price novel Chapter 31

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31/Boredom.

Claude’s pov

I was bored.

Utterly bored.

Leaning back against the seat, my eyes stayed fixed on the ceiling while my brothers, Lucien and Silas filled the space with their voices. Their conversation was just as dull as everything else right now.

“If Veyra is coming, then you shouldn’t lose your temper with her, Lucien. And don’t try to kill her if she says something you don’t like, we need her on our side,” Silas said in that usual, painfully strict tone of his.

Lucien didn’t respond. I doubted he even spared Silas a glance as he continued eating in silence.

“Also, don’t try to kill Lilith like last time. She’ll be staying here from now on. The Crescent Bond applies to us as well, and I’ve already started looking for a witch doctor who can treat her mother,” he went on, unconcerned by Lucien’s lack of response.

I tilted my head to the side, blinking up at the spotless white ceiling as a single thought raced through my mind; how unbearably boring everything was.

There was no excitement in life. Everything felt so flat, so plain, as if there wasn’t even a point to living anymore.

Ah, there wasn’t anything fun to do right now. No one to talk to, even though I had two brothers who looked exactly like me.

If I tried talking to Lucien, he’d just give me that cold look and ignore me. And if I tried with Silas, he’d probably drag me into whatever dull conversation he was having, lecturing me that if I stopped lazing around and actually did my job as an Alpha, I wouldn’t be so bored. (And yes, that’s from experience.)

So I’d rather not bother with either of them. The only others here were the maids, standing silently in the corner with their heads bowed as they waited for us to finish eating and I wasn’t interested in speaking to them either.

Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t that I couldn’t but holding a long conversation with women was just tedious. I’d much rather fuck them and watch them scream than waste my time talking.

But most of all…

The corner of my lips curved into a slow smirk as I thought back to last night, back to that she-wolf. The way she had fit so perfectly around me, the way she writhed and trembled under my touch… she was addictive.

What was her name again?

Ah, Lilith.

She was the only one I truly wanted to speak to.

The only one I wanted to have fun with.

There was something about her, an intoxicating scent that hade her nearly impossible to resist.

It pulled me in, like a call I couldn’t ignore, something I couldn’t quite place.

I was a man who enjoyed sex, yes, but after having a taste of her for the first time, the others felt dull, unappealing. And before I knew it, I was craving that feeling again.

Before I realized it, I was already searching for her, breaking the pact my brothers and I had made so easily, all for

some woman.

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My smirk widened as I brushed the strands of hair from my face, eyes fluttering shut as the image of my head buried between her thighs replayed in my mind. My tongue licked across my bottom lip, as though her taste still lingered there.

However, after last night, I was certain it had been worth it and I couldn’t wait for more.

I couldn’t wait for her to arrive at the packhouse. According to Silas, Abraham had gone to pick her up, and she would be here soon.

Heh, with her around, I doubted things would be boring since she didn’t seem like the others.

“Pfft, don’t kid yourself, Claude.”

A deep, amused growl echoed in my head, the world seemed to blur as my wolf’s voice cut through.

“She might not be like the others. She might be addicting… Dervic hummed, his tone laced with dark amusement. “But in the end, she’s still just a woman, isn’t she? You’ll lose interest soon.” 1

He chuckled lowly.

“You will. Our brothers will too. But when you do, let me take her. By then, you won’t care whether she lives… or dies, right?”

The air turned colder at his words, the smirk on my face freezing. Almost instantly, I noticed Lucien and Silas had fallen silent, their gazes flickering toward me as though they’d sensed the shift. For a brief moment, I said nothing.

Dervic’s sick laughter echoed in my head, feeding on my silence.

“Why, Claude? You don’t want her to die? Is that why you fought so hard to take control yesterday because you were afraid I’d kill her, the same way I killed the others? But Claude, is that really my fault?” His voice dropped to a murmur. “I was only having fun. They were simply too weak. Who knew that just squeezing their necks while I rammed into them would be enough to snuff the life out of them?”

He continued, almost purring.

“This one is different though. I think I’ll be extra rough with her. Just imagining that pretty face gasping for air, her nails clawing at my hands is already turning me on. But don’t worry, I’ll only take her once you’re no longer interested.” 1

His voice echoed through me, his laughter rising, louder and darker, as if he enjoyed toying with me.

A scoff slipped past my lips, the corner of my mouth twitching as I slowly opened my eyes, staring at the ceiling while I felt Silas and Lucien’s gazes on me. 1

They hadn’t said a word but I could tell they knew Dervic was at it again, he was always a little devil.

Sometimes I wondered why I was cursed to be paired with such a psycho as my wolf. Don’t get me wrong, I was no saint, and my hands were soaked in more blood than I could count. But Dervic… he was different. Annoying.

The bastard rarely spoke, rarely interacted, or tried to take control except when it came to sex.

That was where his twisted nature thrived. His kink was extreme, always pushing too far, and more than once his actions had killed women we slept with. That was why I didn’t let him out often. But hearing him now, hearing him say he wanted to kill that she-wolf…

For some reason, it pissed me off.

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But I knew something about my wolf.

The more I restricted him, the more he acted out. He enjoyed toying with people, me, my brothers, anyone. So instead of giving him the reaction he wanted, I simply sat straighter, leaning against the table, resting my head lazily on my hand as my smirk widened.

“Sure, do whatever you want. But don’t touch her yet.” I tilted my head, my eyes flickering toward Lucien and Silas, both wearing their usual stoic expressions, their gazes narrowing on me.

“Because if you do, my brothers won’t let it go. They’re just as hooked on the girl. They might even kill me if you take away our new toy so soon”

I said it through the mindlink, and almost immediately Dervic scoffed, knowing it wasn’t possible for Lucien and Silas to do that over some omega. But when he realized his taunts had no effect on me, he cut off the connection and went silent.

My gaze flickered in amusement at this, though I was barely amused. Usually, we brothers had strong control over our wolves, and they rarely acted out. But after the curse, something had changed.

Our control weakened, and at times it felt like we were barely sane anymore. But then again, that was all part of the curse.

Their wolves shall devour them from within.

If we didn’t find our mate before turning twenty-six, we would be destroyed by our wolves.

Strangely, the curse was unlike anything else. We weren’t sure how it would happen, but we could feel it.

Things were not as they once were.

“What did the idiot say again to piss you off?”

Silas was the first to speak, and I blinked, snapping out of my daze to find they had resumed eating, barely paying attention to me again.

I grinned and shrugged, stretching with a yawn as I turned to Silas, who sat beside me.

“Never mind that. Tell me, when is the she-wolf coming? When she does, can I play with her first… since you two seem to be busy with work?”

I said it shamelessly, and Silas’s eyes narrowed on his plate. I could practically feel the disdain oozing off him, and I knew he was fighting the urge to roll his eyes. And Lucien? Well, I caught the sound of a silent scoff slipping

from him.

But instead of answering, Silas finally turned to me, his eyes boring into mine. Just before he could speak, the sound of footsteps echoed from the front. My eyes widened, and thinking it was the she-wolf, I tilted my head slightly, eager to look.

But to my utter disappointment, it wasn’t.

Instead, it was Kael, our beta, walking toward the dining table with a smile, and by his side was some girl.

My smile dropped almost instantly as my brothers and I turned to watch Kael approach. He stopped in front of us and as he always did, lowered his head in respect before greeting.

“Good morning, Alpha Lucien, Alpha Silas, and Alpha Claude,” he said.

By now, Silas and Lucien had shifted their focus to them, especially to the girl beside Kael, who smiled brightly, her eyes greedily flicking between us brothers as they sparked, her expression full of awe.

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I knew that look all too well.

The look of lust.

And I wasn’t surprised, I had seen it on countless women before. But what did surprise me was that both Lucien and Silas were watching her intently. Lucien even had a brow arched as his gaze flickered over her, and I could have sworn I saw the corner of Silas’s lips tilt into the faintest frown as he studied her.

I tilted my head in confusion, watching them.

They barely paid attention to women. Were they… interested in her?

Leaning closer in my seat, I narrowed my gaze at her, trying to see why.

Was she pretty? I didn’t see it. She was not as pretty as most women they ignored and certainly not as beautiful as that she-wolf nor was her scent addicting.

“I apologize for disturbing you while you are having your breakfast, Alphas, but I wanted to introduce you to my fiancée. Her name is-”

Kael began but before he could finish, the girl smiled wider and cut him off.

“Good morning, Alphas. My name is Seraphina. It is truly a pleasure to meet you. I’m honored to be in your esteemed presence,” she said with a blush, speaking quickly as she stepped forward and lowered her head in respect.

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught Kael’s expression, his eyes widened slightly, a flicker of embarrassment crossing his face as he looked at his fiancée.

For a brief moment, silence settled over the room. The girl waited patiently for us to acknowledge her, to tell her to raise her head. But instead, after staring at her for a few seconds, Lucien and Silas merely flicked their gazes back to their food, saying nothing- blatantly ignoring her.

As they continued eating, the corner of my lips twitched into a smirk. I yawned, running a hand through my hair in boredom, with no intention of speaking either.

And this… well, this only made the situation more awkward. The girl’s face flushed red as she lifted her head slightly, glancing at us in surprise.

Before she could speak, Kael quickly stepped forward, smiling nervously as he tried to ease the tension.

“I-I apologize for my mate’s-”

But before he could finish, the world seemed to pause as my nose caught a familiar, intoxicating scent.

She’s here.

My eyes lit up, a grin tugging at my lips, and as though my brothers sensed it too, they all turned toward the door at the same time, their gazes narrowing.

And standing there, just behind Abraham who held a suitcase in his hands… was her. Lilith.

Her head was slightly lowered, fingers fidgeting with her dress, her small frame timid under the weight of everyone’s stares.

As I looked at her, I wasn’t sure what happened, but the boredom vanished in an instant. Everything around me suddenly seemed to have color again, no longer plain or dull.

Ah, she was finally here. Nothing had even happened yet, and I was already excited, already drawn to her.

Heh, she really wasn’t like the others.

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For a moment, no one said a word. Everyone just watched her until I raised a hand in the air and called out with a wide grin,

“She-wolf!”

I waved at her, and she stiffened at the sound of my voice. When she finally lifted her head and met my gaze, I caught the faint blush on her cheeks.

But the next second, a sharp gasp rang out. Kael and his fiancée practically shouted in unison,

“Lilith?!”

Her gaze snapped toward them, and the moment it did…

I arched a brow as a faint killing intent radiated off her, her eyes turning cold as she narrowed them at the pair.

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