The Alpha Claimed Me Deeply novel Chapter 46

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«Aurora's pov )

"Bond?" Beta Samuel's voice is thick with confusion.

But I can't seem to focus much on their words, my gaze growing hazier by the second, the air whooshing out my lungs harsher by the second.

I take a staggering step forward, intending to perhaps steady myself on the bark of a tree, but there was no bark but air. I topple to the ground, my knees hitting the dirt as I gasp.

This was painful.

"Aurora!" Lily screech. I could feel her fingers wrap around my upper arm, maybe trying to steady me before I ungracefully fall to the ground fully.

"Xavier-" I moaned in pain as I looked around aimlessly at the thick foliage around us.

All I could make out was green and brown.

Green and brown.

My ears rang and I groan, my hands reaching up to cup them. "Stop. Please stop." I whispered hoarsely. Aurora.

Suddenly the ringing stops and I freeze. That voice. The voice I now crave to hear. His voice. Xavier's voice. But surely he wasn't here.

Surely he'd not come to take me back? "Aurora," a soft touch to my arm nearly has me flinching, but I recognize Lily as she kneels before me and looks at me in worry.

Those eyes.

That color.

"I've heard of this happening to mated couples who haven't been rejected yet and are forced to stay away from each other. The bond doesn't allow them to part. It forces them to get back to the other's side. Even if it means pain."

This was Sarah's voice right?

I couldn't tell, my mind a little slow to understand anyone else's voice other than his.

" But Aurora and Alpha Xavier's case is rather different. He casted her out but did not reject her. This makes the bond now more painful as it sorts for answers. " She continues.

Lily turns to look at Sarah over my shoulder. "Answers?" She asked in confusion.

"The bond seeks for answers that Xavier alone can give. Either he rejects her, or he accepts her. But she can't go out of the border. If she does, I fear that may very well be the end of her. And him." Sarah whispers.

"What bond are you talking about!?" Beta Samuel snarls in frustration. "Beta Samuel, I know you were

always a bit slow but never did I ever imagine you to be a fool." Lily sighed heavily before looking at me.

My gaze was still hazy but I could see the deep concern in her eyes. "Aurora. Can you stand up?" Lily asked.

I blinked, staring at her blankly as her face merges into the face of her brother. My breathing grows and my heart thuds. "Xavier?" I whispered. I'm coming to you.

There goes his voice again. The rough sweet sound that sent shivers down my spine.

"Aurora."

"Aurora!" A firm shake to my shoulders and Lily's loud screech seem to have done the job of bringing me out of my hallucinating state.

The face in front of me is no longer Xavier's but that of his sister, Lily who looked rather frightened.

She looks over my shoulder again. ''We should bring her back." She rushes out.

"I agree, we should-

Sarah starts but is cut off by a loud angry growl that came from the Beta.
"The Alpha had commanded me to escort her out of the territory. Not bring her back. I will not disobey an order!"

Lily rises to her feet and glared at the Beta. "That alpha is my brother! And he needs her just as she needs him right now!"

" I will NOT disobey a command from my alpha!" Beta Samuel growled loudly, the sound of his beast unnerving me.

"Now move in my way, Lily. Or I'll force you out-

Another loud growl causes the birds in the trees to scurry away into the sky. I looked to my left to see that it was Chris who took a warning step forward, his eyes trained on Beta Samuel.

: Xavier's pov:

Reckon was rather oddly quiet the entire run to the end of the border where they injected Mary with the wolfsbane.

'Have you gotten anything?' I mind linked Eli as I sniffed the ground. There must be something we missed yesterday. There must be.

'Except for the smell of sex, then no. I have to say the wolves we placed here to guard this area were surely busy last night all into the wee hours of the morning.' Eli mind links, chuckling. If I could roll my eyes right now I would.

' This is no time to joke around Eli. This is a threat we must try to

conquer before it gets worst.' I growled.

I should've taken his brother Chris with me instead, at least he'd be more serious.

Eli was a clown most of the time.

' I was serious! Did you not take the smell? It's literally sprayed on the barks of the trees. Hard to miss actually. What I'm wondering is how the hell did it get on the barks of the trees? Must've been flexible wolves- 'Eli!' I growled, turning to stare at his wolf that bowed down and whimpered. Growling in frustration, I walked away from him, sniffing the ground before I reach my border. One more step and I'd be considered in Raphael's territory.

There were no paw marks, no signs of feet. There were no signs of anything. It was as if one would think it was Mary who killed herself with wolfsbane.

But I knew better. My wolves weren't cowards and if it were indeed Mary, the syringe she used to push the wolfsbane into her bloodstream would have been on her or beside her. This was a very confusing situation that I indeed needed to solve quickly. If I can't.....who would die next?

I look at the ground intensely, my gaze suddenly going cloudy. I blinked, my head lifting as my ears perked.

I shook my head, confused by the ringing in my ears.

I snarled.

Something wasn't right.

I could feel pain. I shook my head, backing away as I try to somehow move the haziness in my eyes. The ringing in my ears gets worst until I couldn't even hear the rustling of the leaves as the wind tickled them.
'Alpha?' Eli mind links in curiosity. But his voice only made the pounding i n my head get worst.

'There will be no burden when she is by our side. And as for our enemies, I will kill them all before they so much as look at her or whisper her name!'
There is a promise in his tone, one that almost makes me think it was possible.