Chapter Five

Aleric’s Pov:

“Marry me.” She repeated

I took a glance of her over my shoulder and walked away. 

I was heading out for a council meeting in a few minutes and I asked my assistant Beta Taylor to make sure everything was set, but just a few minutes after he had gone down the elevator, his voice clearly echoed through the mind link that Myra was in the lobby and was requesting to see me.

She looked needy when she walked in, but I didn't think this would be it. Even if I only took a glimpse of the video recording, I could tell it happened yesterday at her engagement party.

She might not know, but I have seen her being gaslighted by Ethan several times regarding his relationship with Tiara, and for some reason I was proud to finally see her stand up for herself just like she is trying to do now, and I know her father do not care so much as long as his deal with Ethan stands, that must be the reason why she came to me. 

Ethan might be my son, but he is also a full grown adult aware of his decision and action. I always knew he never liked Myra  and I honestly do not know where I went wrong in bringing him up. He has become nothing but a cheat, a lair and manipulator- nothing like me or his mother.

Emily… That was her name. 

We fell in love at first sight, and she had the sweetest smile and kindest heart, but she was taken away from me years ago when our pack was attacked and I had just barely become the Alpha after my father passed away. 

I still remember it like it was yesterday. The stormy cold night I lost it all. 

Emily was heavily pregnant and in labor, and I had no choice but to go out on the battlefield since our enemies were in great numbers.

I arrived with victory from the blood battle to find Emily lying lifeless on the ground with deep cuts on her chest as she held onto the wolf who must have taken her life, and not without taking his as well. She had managed to protect our child, but lost her life for it. 

I was furious and laid curses on the moon goddess for her cruel act of taking away the one person I cared about, and that caused me the burden I have been carrying for years. 

My wolf wasn’t taken from me, instead the moon goddess had given me a blessing and curses all at once. The strength I had cried for while carrying Emily's cold body stained in dried blood. I believed if I was stronger I could have protected her.

Now for over two decades I have lived with the pain of being unable to control my wolf, and it has been dormant for most of the years, but something changed. I felt my wolf for the first time in many years. It wasn’t furious as always but needy. 

“Her.. she’s the one.” I heard him whisper at the back of my mind at Ethan’s engagement party. I was confused at first, but then I remembered the prophecy. The one which breaks the curse. 

There she was standing in the hall, heartbroken with a trace of blood rolling down her finger on a full moon just as the prophecy stated. 

I had seen Myra a few times and even when I knew she was my son's fiancée, I could tell there was something special about her. But who could have thought she would be the one chosen to end all of  my suffering. 

I didn’t just happen to have a bandage with me. I always carried one for years with hopes of meeting the lady I always see in my dreams whenever the prophecy was revealed to me. 

All I could see were just traces of blood and I wasn’t sure how deeply injured she would be when I found her. Plus, her face was never clear. But my wolf Lim picked it up almost immediately when Myra’s blood mixed with the air. I felt pulled to her like a magnet. I have never felt like that for any woman other than my late wife Emily.

I was drawn to her and it was undeniable. 

But somewhere in my mind I tried to convince myself that maybe Lim was wrong. 

Myra does fit the description of the prophecy, but I tried to believe otherwise until she walked into my office and Lim connected with me again. 

“She’s mine..” He roared at the back of my mind as Myra’s scent filled our nostril. Vanilla, almond, peach. 

If I had any doubts it was cleared. She was the one, the one I have been waiting years for. 

It was clear that she would break the curse that bonds me and take all of my pain, but that would mean being with another woman.  

Do I claim her as mine, or continue carrying this curse for the rest of my life, bound to an unknown fate?