Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Alpha Nocturne’s Contracted Mate by A E Randell

Chapter 209 The Dubois

Lexi’s stomach sank at his words and she could practically feel the pain radiating from

him as he spoke. “I didn’t even know you had a sister..” She murmured quietly as

Felix’s head shot up and he glared at her with an anger that quite frankly chilled her to

the bone.

“I don’t Lexi, not anymore.” He growled furiously before downing what was left of his

whisky and slamming the glass down on the table in anger.

Lexi’s heart sank as her heart broke for him She had always regarded Ann as a sister

and a lump began to form in her throat as she pictured the possibility of losing her.

“Allen… I’m sorry… I didn’t know…” Lexi stammered quietly, suddenly at a loss for

words.

“Yeah… well… there’s nothing to be sorry about. It won’t change anything. It is what it

is.” He snapped gruffly as he raised an arm to signal the omega for a refill.

Lexi fully understood now why he hadn’t wanted to discuss this with her. It was painful

for him obviously, and it was obvious the Dubois family had something to do with her

death She could have kicked herself

This was one time that she really shouldn’t have pushed for more details She snorted

quietly to herself in disdain. She had wrongly thought that Allen was just being difficult,

and that perhaps he still continued to underestimate her, but ironically, this time, she

was the arsehole.

She shifted awkwardly in her seat and brushed a stray strand of hair behind her ear

as she swirled the wine in her glass thoughtfully.

“I’m sorry Allen. If I had thought for one minute that it was something like this that you

didn’t want to discuss, I would have waited. I wouldn’t have pushed so hard for you to

tell me. You don’t have to continue if you don’t want to.” Lexi

approached the table with a bottle

in the other.

watched her pour him a new glass and add the ice, but

turn and leave, Lexi reached out and took hold of her

can leave the bottle and the ice

head and hastened to do

carefully on the table before her before scurrying away

her carefully as he took another

table. “I think both of us need to learn to

“As it is,

as well finish.”

deep breath and exhaled heavily as he

the ceiling for a long time before returning his gaze to meet

in the corners of his

“I didn’t know it at the time, but as they carried me off the combat field,

clutching onto my hands desperately as she sobbed and I

quietened as he became fixated

dragged

asked softly, seeing the tenderness in his eyes as

the memory of

with his glass on the table before him. “She

almost thirteen years

everything.”

paused as his face hardened and Lexi waited patiently for him to continue.

this, or force it from him. If he was telling her now, it would be

time.

patiently in the corridor whilst I underwent surgery for

the hammering I took

They had to work quickly to

bones

he saw a flicker of confusion in Lexi’s eyes, and as she

he continued.

I was brought out of the theater, she was at my side

away on diplomatic matters, so she felt duty-bound

home, and not attended the tournament

as Lexi’s hand found his and her fingers curled around

touch of her skin spreading an almost euphoric

fraught emotions

yourself. . I don’t know everything but…

whatever

had begun to relax only seconds earlier, hardened

blame Jasper. He was the one