Lyra

Chapter 5

Lyra POV

Caius’s hand rests on my chin for quite some time, his gaze fixed upon me through those dark eyes in a way that takes my breath away entirely, while the sheer security that emanates from him leaves me feeling more protected than I had ever felt since being with Kael. 

“Lyra, we will protect you, but there is something that you must realize about what happened to you today,” Lucien tells me, coming over from the shadowed corner of the room with a very ancient-looking scroll in his hands.

"Your family line isn't weak or defective at all, because you actually belong to an ancient Alpha bloodline that everyone believed was completely erased generations ago, and your parents hid your identity to save your life."

"What are you even talking about, Lucien, my parents were just regular pack members who died in the border skirmish," I say, shaking my head as I pull away from Caius's touch, but the serious look on all three brothers' faces tells me he isn't joking.

"They lied to you to keep you alive, Lyra, because there is an ancient prophecy that explicitly states a female heir carrying the Triple Bond will either unite all the Alpha bloodlines or burn the packs to absolute ash," Lucien explains, sitting down right across from me, and the words make my blood run entirely cold.

"The Triple Bond means us, Lyra, and whoever manipulated Kael into rejecting you publicly knew exactly what they were doing," Ronan chimes in, his fingers tapping against the armrest of his chair with a dangerous rhythm. 

"Your rejection wasn't just a random act of cruelty from a selfish prince, because someone intentionally pushed Kael to dump you so that your dormant bond with us would awaken and expose your true powers to the world."

"So Kael was just being used in all this?" I ask in an almost inaudible tone of voice as I struggle to understand how everything that ever happened in my life was based on one huge and scary deception.

"Yes, and at the moment the academy council is having a special meeting considering your expulsion from the school, and other rival packs have already started scouting out for you," Caius retorts, getting up from his seat and pacing around the room in front of the fireplace.

A figure moves outside the big window behind me near the porch; and before Ronan could even take out his weapon, the door gets kicked off its hinges, and in stands Kael with an entirely shocked expression on his face.

"Is that really so? Has anyone been using me to get to her?" Kael asks with both anger and shock evident in his tone of voice, as he fixes his gaze on Lucien.

"I heard what you said about the prophecy, and if Selene Ashford orchestrated that public humiliation just to get me to reject my own mate, I will personally rip her family apart."

"Get out of our house, Kael, you made your choice at the ceremony and you don't get to act like a concerned fiancé now," Ronan snaps, stepping between Kael and me with his fangs fully bared, his Alpha aura flaring up to push his stepbrother back into the cold night air.

"I didn't know, Ronan I swear I didn't know what she really was " Kael says, his eyes begging me to look at him, instead I turn my back on him completely. I refuse to forgive him. 

I'm too tired to talk to him, so I lean into Cauis arms and Fall asleep.

The next morning we have a mandatory public training event on the main grounds. The entire student body gathers near the forest boundary where The professors set up wards.

Hundreds of eyes watch my every move and it feels unusual. They're not staring at me in hate but instead like a puzzle they can't solve. Selene is standing away with a group of older wolves and they don't look like students. She went from leading a group of girls set to bully me to hanging out with older wolves? Something isn't right. 

"Stay close to us Lyra. Something feels really wrong about this " Lucien says, His hand resting on my shoulder as We line up on the grass.. Before the headmaster can give the signal to start a series of loud howls echoes from the tree line.

Huge rogue wolves burst through the academy boundaries, bypassing the guards. The rest attack the students while Three of them charge toward me, Their jaws are wide open.

"Get behind me!" Ronan shouts as he throws his body in front of the rogue.. The beast catches him off guard, Its silver-tipped claws tearing deeply into his shoulder. Blood sprays across the grass.

Ronan groans in pain, collapsing to one knee while he other two rogues circle around him to get to me. The sight of his blood makes me furious and immediately A wave of anger consumes me and Before I can think about running my bones crack loudly and I shift into my wolf form for the time in my life.

The entire training field falls silent as everyone stares at me. It stands twice as tall as any Alpha in the academy. Its fur is white, as snow, Its eyes glow silver. They radiate ancient power.

The three rogues freeze in terror and Their ears flatten against their skulls. When I let out a roar the beasts drop to their bellies, whimpering like pups.

I take a step forward, My massive paws leaving prints in the dirt. I take a look around the arena and Every student and professor drops to their knees. They are conquered by my power.

Kael falls to his knees with the rest, His wide eyes are fixed on my form. He looks filled with despair, as the realization settles in, he didn't reject a wolf, He rejected the supreme Alpha queen of the packs. Now his stepbrothers are her MATES