All Chapters of The Alpha's Forbidden Mate Is Cursed : Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

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Chapter 11: Lucian Was Dangerous

Two months passed.Two months of constant fear and paranoia. Two months of sleeping with one eye open the way Elira used to, checking locks she had never thought about before, watching doorways and windows and the faces of people she didn't recognise on campus. Two months of hiding my bump under clothes that had no business being in my wardrobe, loose and shapeless and absolutely nothing like me, all so I could keep a secret I was running out of room to carry.Today felt different.It was two weeks to graduation and I was done hiding.Lucian had tried everything. Texts, calls, showing up through Jake because he knew I wouldn't turn Jake away, and then finally, after two months of me holding the line, he agreed. Everything. No more secrets, no more half answers, no more opening his mouth and closing it again. He would tell me what he had been hiding and I would tell him mine.The pregnancy. The curse. All of it.I wore a short bodycon dress that left absolutely nothing to the imaginati

Chapter 12: Find Her, Lucian.

Iris POV The weights were going to be the death of me. I had said that three times already this evening but Jake kept adding more to the bar like my complaints were suggestions and my burning arms were encouragement. I gripped the bar, jaw clenched so tight my teeth ached, and lifted. "Umfff." The sound came out before I could stop it. I set the weight down before I dropped it on my own foot and turned to give Jake the flattest look I could manage while my chest heaved like I had just run a mile. "What did you do that for." It came out more like an accusation than a question because that was exactly what it was. Jake looked at me like I had said something unreasonable. "You have to be stronger than that to be a better guardian witch." "A guardian witch?" Jake and I both went completely still. We turned at the same time. Rivel was standing at the gym entrance with his arms folded and his eyes moving between us slowly. I had not heard him come in. I did not know how lo

Chapter 13: Why Didn't You Tell Me?

LucianMy wolf was already ahead of me.Every sense I had went sharp the moment I turned the corner leading to the cliff side. The wind, the drop, the sound of the grass moving near the edge. And then I saw her, standing so close to it that my heart stopped before my legs did."Lena!"I ran and forced myself to stop before I reached her. Too fast and she'd step back.She turned around slowly. Her eyes were red, her nose running, her whole face wet in the way that meant she had been crying for longer than the run here. I clenched my jaw and held still as her gaze found mine. Sharp. Cold. Like she was looking at someone she wasn't sure she recognised.I took one careful step forward. "Lena."She stepped back.The sound that moved through my chest at that wasn't something I had words for. My wolf slammed against my ribs, wanting out, wanting to cover the distance between us in one move. I kept him down.I looked at her face properly. Her hands were balled into fists at her sides. Her lip

Chapter 14: We've Got Company

Lena"Lena. When were you attacked?"I was quiet for a beat too long.How do I even begin to explain it?"Lena." He said it again, and something in his tone told me he was not going to stop without an answer."Once." I said it into his shirt. "At the apartment. Three men. Iris handled most of it."I felt the change move through him before I saw it. His jaw went tight. His hands stayed gentle on my waist but everything underneath them had shifted into something else entirely. He was working very hard to keep it contained and not doing a perfect job of it."Why didn't you tell me?" His voice came out deep and rough at the edges.I lifted my head and looked at him. "You weren't there to tell."I said it simply and watched him work his jaw tight. I needed him to sit with that. I needed him to understand what his absence had actually cost, had almost cost.He looked at my face for a long moment. Something moved through his eyes, pain first and then a quiet conviction that swore to protect.

Chapter 15: Lucian!

Lena"We've got company." Lucian said and I held my breath.Five figures stepped out from the tree line.They were cloaked in black and they moved toward us in slow, coordinated steps, each one broad and radiating something so wrong that my hand went to my stomach before I could think about it. Their red eyes were fixed on me. All of them. Like Lucian wasn't even standing there.I grabbed his shoulder. "We have to run."He didn't move."Ice." My voice came out desperate. They were closer now, cutting the distance between us in unhurried strides. "Lucian, come on. What are you doing?"He turned to me for just a second and I saw his eyes. They were glowing, steady and fierce, and that was all I needed to understand. An Alpha wolf doesn't run.He pushed me gently backward and stepped fully in front of me. "Go behind the tree, Lena. Don't look."The command in his voice moved my feet before my brain caught up.One of the men broke from the group and started toward me. Lucian caught him by

Chapter 16: It Would Take A Lot More Than Five Rougue Wolves

Lena"Lucian. Lucian, are you alright?"I dragged myself back to him, heart in my throat. Iris was beside me doing the same. But what we found made us both stop.He was crouching on the ground. Naked. And smiling.Iris turned around immediately.I scoffed, pushing myself to my feet. "Lucian, goodness. You scared me." I said, trying and failing not to laugh at his situation. He was still covered in blood. "Are you hurt?"His lips pulled up slowly. "It would take a lot more than five rogue wolves to put me down, Icy."He glanced past me at the wolf that had gone down first, the one he had dropped at the start of everything. Iris was already crouching beside it, two fingers to its neck.I looked back at Lucian. His shoulder wound was closing on its own, the skin knitting back together right in front of my eyes. "So what are we going to do with you?"He shrugged and stood, pulling me firmly in front of him.Iris approached us. She had a chain wrapped around the unconscious wolf's legs tha

Chapter 17: Since When Do I Like It Gentle

LenaI froze for half a second.In my bid to shake it off and act normal I lost my footing completely and tripped over my own leg. My toe hit the ground first and I hissed.Lucian caught me before I finished falling. His hands found my waist and he pulled me into his side, face full of concern, and before I could protest he lifted me bridal style. I laughed and wrapped my arms around his neck and hid my face against his skin. The rest of them didn't catch it. Or if they did they said nothing.He carried me through the front door and up the stairs, Jake whistling from somewhere behind us, and shouldered open the door to his room. He set me on the bed with a gentleness that made me feel like something that could shatter."You don't have to be that gentle with me." I said. "I won't break."He looked at me, hands still holding mine, thumbs drawing slow circles across my knuckles. "I'll always be gentle with you, Icy." His voice was quiet. "And I'll never let you break. Ever."I smiled and

Chapter 18: You Have My Respect, Iris

IrisI left Jake with the guards in the living room and headed toward the kitchen.He was busy setting up a protected route back to the pack in case we needed to leave in a hurry, brows furrowed in concentration as he traced lines across a map spread over the table. A serious Jake wasn't something I saw often and I didn't want to break it.I peeked into the kitchen and found Rivel flipping pancakes and steak in two different pans at once. His back was to me. I moved in as quietly as I could and watched his shoulders straighten anyway.He already knew I was there.I let out a sigh and rounded the counter to stand a careful distance from him. "Someone can't even sneak up on you.""That would be risky and negligent of me." He didn't even glance over.I looked around the kitchen. Everything was spotless. No flour on the counter, no spilled milk, nothing out of place. "I didn't know you could cook."He turned to me then, eyes bored, like he genuinely didn't care whether I stayed or left. "

Chapter 19: You Have to Tell Him.

Lena"Why are you crying, Lena?" Iris rushed to my side and dropped to the floor beside me, her face tight with concern.I turned away and wiped my eyes but it did nothing. She had already seen the mess of me."You didn't knock." I said, grasping for anything else to talk about. "What if I wasn't dressed."She looked at me like I had grown horns. "I have seen you in your baby suit. I've watched you throw up on yourself. I undressed you and bathed you after your aunt died because you refused to clean up after yourself for three days." All trace of her usual playfulness was gone. "Don't test me. Why are you crying?"My head pounded with everything crashing through it at once. I clenched my teeth trying to hold it back and lost the battle anyway."I don't know." I said, voice cracking, arms flailing. "I'm just tired and confused and scared.""You still haven't told Lucian?" Her face fell when I nodded. "What's stopping you?""A lot happened today, Iris.""That should have been the first

Chapter 20: My Bloodline Is Cursed

Lena"You have to tell him." Iris said it like a command, not a suggestion."But what if—""No what ifs." She cut me off before the fear could take hold completely. "Tell him first. If it comes down to it, we reach out to your father."My whole body went cold at the mention of him. I shook my head hard."That man wanted nothing to do with me once his spell broke." I snapped, pushing up off the bed to pace the room. "I want nothing to do with him."How could she even bring that up.Iris stood and followed me. "He is the—""I don't care who he is. I don't care what his status is. I don't need him." I said it firmly, but something in the way she held herself made me stop. "I don't need him. Right?"Iris took my hands and looked everywhere except directly at me. "This could mean nothing. But the first time we were attacked, and the day we got followed leaving the library, you felt it before I did. Both times. Your reaction was what made me notice, the way your whole body went stiff before

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