Alpha’s Hybrid Cinderella – Chapter 71
Evan left Claudia’s side exactly twice.
The first was when he presented himself at the trial to decide the traitors’ fates. Matthen Joseph and the Glily family faced the judgment of the pack three days after the end of the Scarlet pack siege, and the judgment came swift and harsh.
Matthen Joseph was sentenced to death, although that was probably preferable to the lifelong agony he would have had to suffer otherwise thanks to the gruesome injuries he suffered at Evan’s hands in the fight. They had been so severe his werewolf healing had failed to regenerate them properly. When he stared blankly around the Quad where the entire rest of the Scarlet pack had gathered, glaring at him as they would any enemy, he quietly accepted his execution.
. It was a little thing. He could do that for her. Instead, the Scarlet pack handled the affair.
out of the territory as rogues. For as long as they lived, no pack would ever accept them, not with the shame they carried on their shoulders.
And all he wanted was for Claudia to come back.
side was to visit Peelle’s grave.
y did he have to leave Evan alone to bear this weight, unable to make anyone else understand?
ngertips tracing his face so gently.
r his, going to the very edge of death just to save him?
at in the first place?
happened.
an stumbled away blind.
***
sighed and wipe
Cleudie!
***
Even.
d.
ickly. Little one, weke up.
ed to stare at Claudia in her hospital bed. Ornby sighed again and resumed speaking.
, especially a powerful Alpha whose constitution demands more power to fuel it… Claudia strained herself greatly. Still, have hope. She’s still with us. Maybe in sleep, but she’s still alive. Don’t give up yet, Alpha Evan… She wouldn’t want you to.”
an sai
s that our Claudia, instead of having human and werewolf blood as we thought, is actually something close but not quite. Werewolf and elf, if we use the old terminology. A subspecies thought to be wip
ce.
Ornby left.
***
air back. A gentle kiss traced along her brow. “Come back to me, Claudia.”
shoulder. How long had it been? How much lo
me.”
***
t? A reaction? The quickening of blood, the hastening of the pulse, life flowing in her veins, real life, not the stagnant half-death she had entered and never left?
.
her
t pack back under his control, the mighty leader no one had ever seen panic, ever — nearly lost his mind.
ia! Open your eyes, I’m here! I’m here, come back to me!”
less on the bed.
had felt it. He knew.
She had bee
Claudia!
***
Evan.
d.
up too quickly. Little one, wake up.
round him, but under the surface teemed countless energies so powerful Evan suspected he couldn’t feel them simply because they were too overwhelming, like becoming numb in a blizzard.
this?
ng?
t saw you.
ce.
ed times into the gloom. “What’s happening? Am I dying?”
fe you live is too prec
an stared.
before, so long ago he couldn’t even remember when…
That story he had told Claudia long ago had come back to haunt him. He had even stopped believing it had truly happened, a little.
he Moon Goddess stood, on
different softness in her eyes
one, for the strength she gave you to change your fate.
mate?”
an?
eathed out every shard of pain that had buried itself inside him. They left h
isn’t she? She really is.”
cost of her own.
back to me. Don’t let her do it. I’ll give anything to let her live. Moon
orld still, don’t you?
earing open. His heart had already burst and melted like the sun, turning to magma in his body and setting him alight like a great blaze in the
y mate.”
be. Go to her now. She comes to you