All Chapters of Mated To The Scarred Alpha: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

LEAH“You’re not who you think you are.”“This again?” I mutter. I notice that his voice is too calm. It’s not soft, or tender like it was before he went to see Queen Reyna. This time, it sounds… controlled. Like he’s holding something back.“What is it?” I ask again, slower this time.He stares at me for a beat too long, like maybe if he just looks hard enough, I’ll already know. But then, I don’t, and it’s starting to make my stomach feel weird. His jaw shifts. His eyes are troubled, like there’s a whole storm going on in his head. He opens his mouth to talk, but then, he doesn’t. He just… shuts down.I stare at him blankly. What’s wrong with him? “Not here,” he says finally. “We should talk in Queen Reyna’s presence.”That’s not the answer I expected. “Why?”“Because it involves her,” he says, already standing, and turning towards the door like that’s the end of it, but it’s not. Not for me. “Lucian.”He stops, half-turns. The air between us feels heavy.“I need you to trust me,”

LUCIAN“Leah,” I call out softly as I step back into the room, looking between her and her mother, Queen Reyna. She turns away from me almost immediately, her eyes heavy with tears. And in that moment I knew, I broke her.“I didn't tell you to come back yet.” Queen Reyna snaps. “Please, I need to be here,” I reply, my eyes trained of Leah.Fuck! I broke the one person that matters to me. The council can't be blamed for not wanting me back, everything I touch, I destroy. I broke my mate, and she can't bear to look at me anymore. It's like I am the thing she needs to run from.She looks back at me and I open my mouth to call her again, but before I do, she runs for the door. “I need some air,” she says, her voice cracking. At first, I'm unable to move, my chest caving in, and my feet refusing to move. But then she walks towards the door, pain and hurt filling her every stride, I run to her and grab her hand. “Leah, please” I breathe, broken.“No!” She yells. “Leave me alone!” Her secon

LUCIANI follow her into the room, but the silence between us is heavy enough to pin me to my chair without warning. She sits on the far side of the room, curled up on the couch with the book which I'm certain she hasn’t turned a page in for the last hour. The soft golden light spilling from the lamp makes her skin glow, but her eyes are fixed anywhere but on me.I try taking to her again, “You haven’t eaten.”“I’m fine,” she replies. Her voice is polite, and clipped. The kind of politeness that feels like you slammed a door on your toes.“Leah…”“I’m tired, Lucian.” She doesn’t even look at me when she says it.I lean back in my chair, running a hand over my jaw. There’s an ache in my chest that I can't seem to get rid of. An alarm bell goes off in my head, warning me that if I push again, I’ll only make it worse. But then, letting the silence consume me feels worse.I’m about to risk it anyway when there’s a knock at the door, the sound cutting through the room like a blade. Leah ri

LEAHI’m in a forest, but I’m not just standing there, the trees, the wind, the river… they all feel like they belong to me. The forest itself feels like it's breathing. My bare feet sink into damp mud, the air is thick with the scent of green leaves and rain, though no clouds hang above me. I lift my hand and the air surprisingly swirls, warm and slow, brushing against my hair gently. It feels like I'm the one controlling it. A soundless vibration rises in my chest, making the ground tremble, roots coiling upward, and weaving around my ankles. I turn my palm, and a stream of water arches from nowhere, coiling through my fingers. It feels just right.What the hell?Suddenly I feel something deeper moving inside me. My bones bend, and break, an excruciating pain surging through my whole body. My skin burns as ut ripples and shreds into pieces. Suddenly, I'm on fours.My senses are heightened beyond reasoning, and I see clearer than I ever have. My eyes catche a strange glint on my bod

LEAH The days start blurring together, and I spend most of them with Queen Reyna now. And it's not because things with Lucian are terrible, not exactly, but because it’s easier this way. It's easier to stay busy, easier to avoid the way his eyes have been holding something back lately. There’s a wall between us. It's thin enough to see through, but it's also thick enough to stop me from touching him.Queen Reyna and I are also still awkward, there’s no pretending otherwise. We’re not the kind of mother and daughter who fall into each other’s arms after years apart. We circle around each other instead. She gives me pieces of herself, little bits of her past, like broken glass she’s afraid I’ll cut myself on. I offer pieces back, though mine are smaller, and safer. We’re both learning about each other one conversation at a time.But at least she’s here, and she’s patient. That’s something. Today, we’re in one of the training courts behind her office. It’s quiet except for the low whist