All Chapters of Cherish Me, Daddy: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

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CHAPTER 60: UNSPOKEN QUESTIONS

ELI'S POVThe room suddenly felt too small.I could see the ceiling tiles from where I sat on the edge of the bed, the way the night-light painted them a sterile white. Lucen stood only a few steps away, his boots still dusted with the sand of the southern border, but the distance between us stretched into something immeasurable. My heart hammered against my ribs, a frantic drum that threatened to drown out everything else. I wanted to whisper to him, to beg, to curse... anything that would break the crushing silence, but the words stuck in my throat, choking on the rawness of my own heat.The citrus scent clinging to him cut through the comforting cedarwood and bergamot that had once felt like safety to me. It was sharp, unfamiliar, and it made my chest tighten.Another omega.The thought formed slowly, painfully, like a jagged stone being pulled from a wound. I didn’t ask. I didn’t dare. I was afraid of the answer. My lips parted slightly as if I might speak, but the courage never

CHAPTER 61: ONLY ELI

ELI'S POVHickeys. There were a lot of hickeys.The realization settled quietly and heavily inside me. Those weren’t wounds from battle. They were too soft. Too intimate.My lungs suddenly felt tight.So it was true. The citrus scent. The omega pheromones. Luc... Lucen—had been with someone.During the three days he was gone. During the marking ceremony night. During the time when I was here alone, burning through heat and clutching his clothes just to breathe... just to survive the burning sensation from within me.I watched him slip through the hallway with the same careless confidence that had once made me think I could belong in his world. He didn’t glance at my face, but maybe he did and simply chose not to acknowledge it.He walked past me toward the walk‑in closet.“I need to change, by the way I needed to go again... follow up planning regarding the crisis” he said casually.“Alright,” I replied softly, the words already half‑lost in the trembling of my throat.The closet door

CHAPTER 62: PRIDE

LUCEN'S POV I saw it. That tiny flicker of pain in Eli’s eyes. Most people would have missed it. Eli was always good at hiding what he felt. He had learned to smile even when something hurt him. He had learned to lower his gaze, to soften his voice, to make himself smaller so he would not trouble anyone. But I noticed. And the moment I did, I regret twisted painfully inside my chest. I wanted to take it back. Every word I had said. Every cold sentence. Every indifferent response that left my mouth like a blade. I wanted to explain. I knew exactly what Eli smelled the moment I walked into the room. The citrus omega scent clinging to me was not what he thought. It came from the omega my search team rescued earlier near the southern border. The poor omega had been half-conscious when we found him hiding among the wreckage of the group the Dreadlord slaughtered. He had been injured and barely able to walk. My men carried him myself when we escorted him back to the make shift camp.

CHAPTER 63: BLOOD

LUCEN'S POVMy brows lifted slightly. Alpha Osen. Of course. The name rang like a bell I had stopped hearing months ago, when I was too busy trying to find Eli. I met Osen ,way back to the war. The war had been over, the borders redrawn, the treaties signed. Osen, once a rival commander, had become an uneasy ally. The thought of him standing in my hallway now felt… inevitable.I rose from the chair, the leather creaking under my weight, and headed downstairs. The corridors smelled of polished wood and faint incense, a reminder that even in a house built for war, there were still rooms meant for quiet.When I entered the main hall, Osen was already standing near the living room, his broad shoulders framed by the fire’s amber glow. Beside him, Emon... tall, lanky, with a nervous energy that made his hands tremble, shifted his weight as if trying to find a comfortable stance on a floor that suddenly felt unfamiliar.“Lucen,” Osen greeted, his voice gruff but not unkind.“Osen,” I replied

CHAPTER 64: WAKEN UP

ELI'S POV When I woke up, the first thing I felt was pain The moment I opened my eyes, the world was a blur of dark wood and thick curtains. A splintering ache jabbed through my skull, as if someone had driven a wedge straight down the middle of my head. I groaned, the sound low and hoarse, and lifted a hand to my forehead. My fingers brushed rough gauze, its fibers biting into my skin. Bandages? I whispered, my voice trembling. The words felt foreign, as though they belonged to someone else, a man who had spent years learning how to speak quietly in a room full of whispers. My eyelids were heavy, but I forced them open. The familiar ceiling of Lucen’s room came into focus, the high arches and the low, amber glow of a single light hanging above the bed. The same carved wooden panels that had seen my confession, my silent prayers, and now this... my collapse. My heart skipped a beat. Lucen’s room. Not my own room, the one I shared with an Alpha who had become a name more than a per

CHAPTER 65: NEW FRIEND

ELI'S POVEmon gently sat down beside me, his hand finding mine and giving it a tentative squeeze. “Do you feel better now?” he asked, voice as soft as the rustle of a leaf.“A little,” I whispered, the words barely carrying the fatigue that settled in my bones.His expression softened, and he leaned in, his forehead almost touching mine. “I was really worried about you,” he said. “After what happened on the cruise ship… I was afraid something terrible happened again.”I blinked, trying to piece together the fragments of that night. “You mean… when I fell into the ocean?”Emon nodded, his eyes clouded with the memory of frantic waves and cold water that had pulled me under. “That night scared me a lot. As an omega, I seemed to feel what you feel that night. Every pain seeing those things and helplessness floating in the pitch black ocean.”I gave him a weak smile. “Thank you… for worrying about me.”From that night on, Lucen became strangely attentive. Like clockwork. Every morning, a

CHAPTER 66: DUTY FIRST

ELI'S POVFor a moment, I couldn’t breathe.Lucen’s words lingered in the damp evening air, fragile and trembling like the light flickering across the garden walls. The sound of water spilling from the fountain filled the silence between us, steady and soft, as if the world itself had slowed to listen.“I’m sorry, Eli,” he repeated, his voice quieter this time.My chest tightened.So many nights I had imagined this moment. So many times I had rehearsed what I would say if Lucen ever apologized... if he ever acknowledged the distance he had placed between us. But now that the words were actually here… I found myself strangely lost.“You’re apologizing,” I said slowly, my voice almost swallowed by the murmur of the fountain, “but that doesn’t change what happened.”Lucen’s gaze didn’t leave mine. “I know.” He said.“Do you?” I asked quietly. The question came out softer than I expected, but it still carried months of quiet hurt.“You kept your distance,” I continued, my fingers tighteni

CHAPTER 67: FOR COMPLIANCES

ELI'S POV Inside the estate time moved like syrup... slow, thick, and stubborn. Days slipped into weeks unnoticed, weeks folded into months, and the world outside turned from winter to spring to summer while I still wore the same wool coat I’d bought the night before the first snow. When I first arrived at Blackthorn, the house was a promise. Its vaulted ceilings and sprawling gardens whispered a life I could share with Lucen... my Alpha, my partner, the man who had taken me to be the shadow of my late brother. I lingered over his smile, over the way his eyes lingered a fraction longer than protocol required. I kept hoping, day after day, that something would shift, that the walls between us would crack and let the warmth I felt for him spill out. But the estate kept its rhythm, and Lucan kept his. The endless litany of duties... pack matters, border patrols, council meetings, rogue wolf sightings, negotiations with neighboring territories, filled his mornings, his afternoons, his

CHAPTER 68:: STRICTLY COMMANDS

ELI'S POVBy the time the first light slipped through the shutters, the heat that had snarled through the night finally gave way to a thin, forgiving chill. I lay on the narrow cot in the east wing, the thin quilt pulling at my shoulders, and listened to the soft sigh of wind against the stone walls. It was a sound I had learned to recognize as the world’s way of saying “you can breathe again.”Lucen stood from the chair beside my bed. He was taller than most Alphas, his shoulders broad enough to fill the doorway even when his sleeves were rolled just so. His hair, a dark cascade that seemed to swallow the light, fell forward as he inclined his head toward me.“You’ll feel weak for a few hours,” he said, voice low, the cadence of someone who has spoken the same words a thousand times and still feels each syllable in his throat.“Lucen.” I spoke despite weakness in my demeanor.He paused. “Yes?”“…thank you.” I said.He gave a small nod. Then he left before sunrise. It became routine.

CHAPTER 69: CONFLICTED

LUCEN’S POVThe eastern border was silent when we arrived.Too silent.The kind of silence that was followed by the storm... by something big.The forest stretched for miles, a wall of ancient pines whose branches knotted together so tightly that even moonlight struggled to slip through. The air smelled of damp earth and iron. Vulk caught it before the scouts even finished their report. Blood.I stepped out of the vehicle before it had fully stopped. Drew followed behind me, already speaking into the comm unit clipped to his collar.“Alpha on site,” he said. “All units report position.”Voices crackled through the speaker.“North ridge secure.”“South perimeter clear.”“Two rogues spotted fleeing west.”I listened to the reports without speaking, my eyes scanning the treeline. The wind carried dozens of scents... pine, soil, gunpowder, but none lingered long enough to suggest a full‑scale attack. Which meant one thing.“They were testing the border,” I said.Drew looked at me. “A prob

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