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…”

weakly. “But, you said there were similarities …?” He asked as he c****d

Lexi nodded slowly.

Her father said seriously as he gestured for her to sit down and offered her a drink, which she

in enough blood for that to be true.” Lexi explained

the horrific

he swirled another double shot

not a weapon, but there was the pungent odor of sulfur tainting everything when we arrived. The

looked at her father as he grunted again before downing the contents of his glass in one gulp, and placing his

a moment’s pause, he nodded,

said

the infirmary. She could feel the tension rolling off him in waves and understood completely how difficult this

they entered the infirmary and

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

a smile to Lexi’s face whenever she accompanied her father

and her father stopped in his tracks as he took in the gruesome

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

quietly with a grimace, “That’s my Papa, Lord Brarthoroz,

dumbly as he stared at

get any smaller does he…”

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

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 the corner before narrowing his eyes at the point

and Felix rushed to his side, squinting