Alpha Nocturne"s Contracted Mate

Felix trailed behind the figures of Allen and Lexi still bickering quietly and he smiled ruefully to himself.

That should have been him and Aoife… minus the bickering of course.

He had to admit, he shared the same confusion as Ann did. Why was Aoife taken out of all of them?

If they had wanted to make a significant impact on the Dubois family then surely whoever it was would have gone after him? There had been plenty of opportunities while he was dealing with the rogues at the border with Adam. Surely the Enclave was a more risky target.

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But, what if they hadn’t been aiming for the Dubois family and had instead been aiming for disruption within the Veritas family line? He scowled as his mind ran with possibilities. If that was the case though then they wouldn’t have chosen Aoife as a target because it would have minimal impact…other than preventing a possible alliance after years of tolerable neutrality.

Had that been their goal? Could it have been a case of mistaken identity? Had Ann been their target and the assassin had merely got the wrong room?

Felix sighed in frustration and brought his fists together, cracking his knuckles to relieve some tension as his wolf’s frantic thought process did nothing to ease his own anxiousness.

“Felix?” Alien’s voice interrupted his thought process.

“Yeah?” He answered a little defensively, before taking a steadying breath to help calm his thoughts,

“Sorry, I’m a little distracted… my wolf isn’t helping.” he grimaced apologetically.

if there’s anything she can do, I’m gonna head to the barracks and see if there’s any news yet. Do you want to tag along with

about it for a moment before

much as I appreciate the offer, I think I’m going to head back to my room and try to rest a little. I haven’t slept in almost

probably shower too.” Lexi offered as she wrinkled her nose, “I mean, I’m not saying that you smell bad per-se… but you have an awful lot of filth and other… stuff to wash off you.”

constricted painfully as he looked down and realized just how much

numbly as he turned and wandered off

little more sensitive,

when

have feelings you know, there are kinder ways of

into the woman in the relationship. Did you want to switch

“f**k off Lexi.”

in the corridors without raising his

finally unlocked and he pushed past the door with the weight of people’s curious stares on

room quickly and leaned back against it, closing his eyes and tilting his head

in this room and he drank it in deeply. The warmth of her love and the scent that had always identified her as his own broke his heart into pieces over and over again as

his clothes off and standing under the scalding water as he sobbed, the rivulets of

sobs, a symphony of misery that

and his soul felt numb, he stepped out of the shower, grabbing a towel from the