When My Alpha Ex-Husband Came Looking for Me by Mark Twain 11
Chapter 11
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Lucas’s POV
Back in my room at Aethon Pack’s main estate, silence was supposed to mean peace-but all it did was roar louder inside my skull. My bed remained untouched. I hadn’t shifted out of this chair for over an hour, elbows on my knees, phone clutched in my palm like it might answer on its own if I stared hard enough.
Rebecca still wasn’t answering.
I’d called. Texted. Even used the old wolfmark channel we used as knights-one most warriors forgot existed. Nothing. She was gone.
And I hated how that made me feel.
It shouldn’t matter. It shouldn’t. She wasn’t mine to worry about. My duty was to Maurine now -always had been. The key, the prophecy, the balance… All of it pointed to Maurine. My mission, my purpose, was built around keeping her safe. I used Rebecca-gods forgive me- for cover, for access, for secrecy. If anyone found out who Maurine really was, what power she held…
They’d tear her apart.
So I told myself I did the right thing.
Then why the hell did I feel like something inside me was breaking?
The door creaked and I didn’t look up. I already knew the scent.
“Beta,” I said, voice low.
“Alpha.” Reid stepped in quietly, then paused. He never used that title unless we were alone. The rest of the Aethon pack believed I was still just a loyal knight in service to Aethon. And
that’s the way I needed it to stay.
“You’re late.”
“I went to the Red District first.”
My jaw clenched. “About Rebecca… I can’t even reach her through any methods I know.” “Like she was totally gone?” Reid raised a brow and stepped further into the moonlight, folding his arms. “I thought you don’t really care about her, Alpha? That woman is just a thorn on your side. Why are you still looking for her until now?”
“I know where she is now. Thane Pack.” I swallowed the words like poison. “She will marry their vegetative Alpha.”
Reid blinked. “Maximus Thane? The one who’s practically a corpse?”
I nodded once. “The guy who got poisoned by a vampire hoodlum bite months ago? There’s no way she-” He paused. “Wait, is he even conscious?”
“No. Still in a coma.”
Reid whistled. “Why the hell would she marry him? That doesn’t make sense.”
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I didn’t have an answer. That’s what drove me mad. I stood and paced, claws threatening to burst through my fingertips. My wolf was restless, pacing behind my skin. Agitated. Confused.
“She wouldn’t…” I started, then stopped. “Rebecca’s reckless, yeah. Stubborn. But she wouldn’t throw herself into something like that without a reason.”
Reid shrugged. “Maybe she finally cracked. Or maybe she’s just following orders. Her father’s always been obsessed with alliance-building.”
I let out a growl low in my throat. The idea of her being used like that… it didn’t sit right. It never did. Not with Rebecca.
“Reid,” I muttered, “find out what you can. Discreetly.”
He frowned. “Alpha-”
“Just do it.”
His eyes narrowed. “You sure this is still about the mission?”
“I need to know what she’s playing at.”
A beat of silence passed between us.
“You’re too deep, Alpha,” he said finally. “She’s just a girl who clawed Maurine. You’re not thinking straight.”
“I don’t know anymore, fuck. Just do it. For my peace of mind,” I said before I could stop myself.
Reid exhaled and looked away. “Fine. I’ll ask around.”
When the door shut behind him, I leaned back against the wall and stared at the ceiling. I’d convinced myself for years that Rebecca was a stepping stone. That she was nothing but a pawn I had to play in this long game. But somewhere along the way…
She’d become real.
And now she was gone. Going to get married. To a dying Alpha who couldn’t speak, couldn’t touch, couldn’t protect her.
Why? Why would she give herself up like that?
I gritted my teeth and glanced at my phone again. Still nothing.
Maurine’s scent drifted faintly from the hallway. Sweet like lilies and lavender. My official duty.
But Rebecca’s scent-feral and earthy like pine after rain-lingered in my memory stronger
than I wanted to admit.
I threw the phone across the room. It hit the wall and clattered to the floor in pieces. My wolf let out a low whine inside my chest. I’d made my choice. I reminded myself of that a hundred times. Maurine was the key. Rebecca was a decoy. A shield.
And now that shield was gone, about to get married into the Thane Pack, leaving me with a gut full of guilt and no answers.
I collapsed back onto the chair, breathing heavy, claw tips barely sheathed. I didn’t know what
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this was anymore-regret? Guilt? Some twisted sense of loyalty I’d never truly buried?
All I knew was that the bed still felt too empty without the echo of her voice mocking me. That I kept expecting to hear her stomp through the hall with that half-snarl of hers, teeth bared, daring me to challenge her again.
But she was gone.
And for the first time in years, I couldn’t tell if I’d won or lost.
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