Mated To The Cold Hearted Alpha – Chapter 146

Leander

Luca raised his head. Tortured green eyes searched mine. “What did you mean when you said her Wolf was g-gone?”

I blinked, unsure how to answer. He didn’t know? The horrifying loss of Hycinth’s Wolf had been immediately obvious to me but clearly he hadn’t detected her animal’s absence, and Hycinth must not have told him.

ected the words that were just too painful to say.

my face.

my expression, I understood his. Shock. Anguish. Fear. He waited for me to speak, desperate for me to correct his wrong assumption. But I coul

mped in defeat. “I knew her Wolf hadn’t spoken much…but not gone. How is that even possible?”

und the lump in my throat.

I don’t know. I’

ca murmured.

process his statement let alone reply.

d you. But she couldn’t find a way in her heart to reconcile the past. She’s never really grieved the loss of our parents. Neither of us did, I guess.” His brow pinched. Troubled eyes looked down.

me everything I wanted to know, what I had missed, and I had no plans to interrupt his turbulent musing.

sed. His head came up again. Agitation pushed his Wolf close to the surface, the pigment in his eyes darkening to match that of his beast. Both stared back at me. Undisguised malice and hate swirled in his expression. “I swear to you, she didn’t know the full truth of who they were, the evil they’d done. Neither of us did. Not until Orac

d Hycinth know?”

.

icious in nature, an eye for an eye, every kill seemed to result in yet another Wolf dead. Vengeance killing. And it was exactly that…until it wasn’t.”

om you…and give her to me.” His breath hitched. He turned away. Reaching for a small gold locket around his neck, long fingers began to absentmindedly rub the small trinket.

tion. His mate was gone from him forever.

of my wolves. Reaching across the small space between us, I placed my hand on his shoulder.

do now,” his voice broke and his large body began to shake.

s shoulders to help him control the violent tremors coursing through his body. Instantly, Ever joined me, positioning himself on his knees at Luca’s back, big arms wrapped around both of us, forehead resting on Luca’s opposite shoulder.

poke quietly, “but you don’t have to do this alone.”

y our beasts understood.

nly time would tell Luca’s fate.

, he mumbled, “Sorry.”

family now. You are Pack.”

truly being a part of family. He was clearly broken, and not just by the loss of his mate, but also by the cruel revelation that the one male he thought would protect him at all cost had instead betrayed him and torn the most precious gift away from him. I’d also noticed that Lucky had already disassociated himself. A moment ago, he’d referred to him as Alpha Grant and not as his father.

a silent connection with my father, I quickly replayed the last couple of minutes.

d directly into my head.

link, I refoc

the rest of his tears. He still looked a little lost but definitely

released his hold and stood to his feet.

Nodding to a nearby split-tree

nsically understood my command and agreed with me, Luca would benefit from our combined supportive presence.

s either,” I went back to our earlier conversation. “Just like you, I thought his motivation for killing my mother and sister was our ongoing war, a way to destroy my father.”

tently.

eelings of vengeance,” I said, referencing Luca’s earlier comment about war amongst wolves. I

ied. “They were evil.”

dded. “That’s right. What I did was justice because evil like that had to be put

.

miliar ache twisted my gut.

et to me.”

ness etched into the lines of his face. “She feels the same way you do, but

uld pretty much put the puzzle pieces together. But what I didn’t know was whether or not her feelings of guilt and lack of self-worth were the catalyst to her current coma. He wasn’t a doctor or healer in