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…”

said as she smiled up at him weakly. “But,

Lexi nodded slowly.

gestured for her to sit down and offered her a drink, which she declined with a shake of 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

there, there was no body… just the horrific aftermath of

weapons?” Lord Brarthoroz grunted as he swirled another double shot of

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

the contents of his glass in one gulp, and placing his glass firmly on the counter as he

pause, he nodded,

me,” he said simply

off him in waves and understood completely how difficult

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

hide his shock at Lord Brarthoroz’s colossal size in comparison to him. Shifters weren’t small 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

a smile to Lexi’s face whenever

were pushing through the door of the innocuous-looking room, and her father stopped in

the air around them, and walked straight past Felix to the corner of the

quietly with a grimace, “That’s my Papa, Lord Brarthoroz, but I think you’ve already

dumbly as he stared

smaller does he…” Felix

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

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

certainty as Lexi and Felix rushed to