Alpha Nocurne's Contracted Mate

Chapter 255 Similarities

As soon as Lexi reached her father’s quarters, she didn’t bother knocking. She flung the doors wide open as she called out for him.

“Papa? Are you here?” she called frantically as she tried her best to hold back the tears that threatened to fall.

Lord Brarthoroz’s head appeared around the edge of the doorframe and his frown deepened as soon as he realized the state that Lexi was in.

“My daughter,” He greeted her with a soft smile as he threw the book he had been reading onto the bed and made his way over to her, “Tell me what troubles you.”

The combination of his soft, coaxing voice and the way he looked at her with such concern, seemed to open the floodgates as her grief poured forth with tears streaming from her eyes as she choked back a sob.

“Papa it’s Aoife! She… she’s dead. She was in the room right next door and I didn’t hear a thing…I should have stopped it, I should have…”

“Hush child, that’s enough,” Lord Brarthoroz soothed her as he wrapped his arms around her, cradling her head to his chest as he had done when she was a child, letting her sob noisily for as long as she needed, “I am sure that had there been anything that you could do, then you would have acted immediately.”

Lexi sniffled miserably as she pushed back from him and looked up at him with the eyes of a daughter that was desperately seeking reassurance from her father.

“Papa, her room, it looked… well, it’s so similar to Mama’s disappearance…” she whispered hesitantly

“What?” her father snapped a little harsher than he had meant to, making her flinch slightly.

He sighed lightly at Lexi’s reaction. He hadn’t meant to make her jump, but the memory of losing his beloved was still so fresh and raw in his mind, that he wasn’t sure he would ever get over it.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to snap at you…”

him weakly.

Lexi nodded slowly.

for her to sit down

that Aoife was dead when he entered the room, her throat cut, with no chance of revival. He was distraught enough and covered in enough blood for that to be true.” Lexi explained carefully as she watched her father down a large glass of

was no body… just the horrific aftermath of a clearly violent crime

another double shot of whisky around in

odor of sulfur tainting everything when we arrived. The damn shifters are so

contents of his glass in one gulp, and

moment’s pause,

he said simply gesturing towards

rolling off him in waves

her arm through her father’s as they entered the infirmary and hurried through the corridors to the room where

by any means, on average, they were frequently taller than 6ft and built like they spent their lives in the gym, but Lord Brarthoroz made them look like scrawny

looks and sheer shock often brought a smile to

through the door of the innocuous-looking room, and her father stopped in his tracks as he took in the

his daughter, he didn’t cover his nose, instead, he inhaled deeply, as if scenting the air around them, and walked straight past Felix to the corner of the room without so

apologized quietly with a grimace, “That’s my

dumbly as he

any smaller does

his own realm. Reducing his height to this is just a courtesy. Wouldn’t want you shifters getting all

a smile played on Felix’s lips but he was too preoccupied with his wife’s fate to see any humor in the situation without feeling too guilty. He watched Lord Brarthoroz like a hawk as he seemed to inhale deeply at various points in

He said with certainty as Lexi and Felix rushed to his side, squinting hopelessly at the