Lucian's POV
"What was all that about Lucian?" Rowan says and he sounds annoyed.
"What was all what about?" I take quick long strides to my room. I need to take a break.
"Is there something you're not telling us? Something we need to know?" Damien says. I'm not surprised they can notice I'm not myself.
"What's going on with you Lucian? Since she stepped her feet into this place,you haven't been yourself. You are different."
"We need to know if the difference is positive or negative. Don't ask us to turn a blind eye in this situation." Kai speaks up. I keep walking forward. I have no way to explain this to any of them.
"Lucian, open your damn mouth and say something! Are you just becoming possessive over her or is the curse starting to act up?" Rowans asks. He tries to be as discreet as possible. But he still ends up offending me.
I stop in my tracks. Anger,rage, hatred, myriad of negative emotions pass through me all at once.
"Lucian, get a hold of yourself. We promised ourselves she was never going to find out about this. Do not do something stupid. Be calm. Get a hold of yourself."
They all take steps that widen their distance between me and them. I try to regulate my breathing but nothing seems to be working.
"Lucian. Breathe in, we are going to find a cure for this." Kai tries to reassure me.
"There is no stupid! Cure for this! Every fucking time, I try to step my foot off this damned place, this monster surfaces from me, he is now part of me. Everytime I think about her, I think about them!" My claws extends.
"Tie him up now!" Rowan shouts. The guards stationed for this disaster immediately get to action.
They were brought here to handle this situation after I murdered my mother's sister with my own very hands.
I see her beating heart in my palms and my eyes go red.
"We have to tie him with silver. Unless you are all ready to lose another one of this pack."
"We can't do that. Silver drains his life force as well."
"He is about to go on a killing spree! Again! Do it now!"
The whole place suddenly becomes noisy. I try to block my two ears but my hands are bound by this rope.
I struggle again and again, yet the rope does not seem to be loose, it gets even tighter.
"I'm so sorry Lucian." I can't place which one of us said those words.
"Arggghhhmmm!" I grit my teeth together to stop myself from alerting the whole neighborhood of my tragedy.
"I have no intentions to use silver to drain your life force brother but this is the only way to temporarily bind that monster." I breathe in and I catch his scent.
"Rowan!" My fangs extends. My clothes shed.
"Lace the ropes with silver. Do not let him out!" The rope becomes tighter and more repelling. I try to be as strong as I be, all to no avail.
Strength leaves my body rapidly till I struggle to understand what's going on around my environment.
"Lucian?" Damien waved his fingers in front of my eyes. I open my mouthy to say words to him when everything goes blank.
"We have to find a way to end this. We need to, he can't keep up like this. If we keep doing this, we will end up killing him before his predestined time." I open my eyes to meet a bright white room.
I immediately shut it. Slowly, I open my eyes blinking many times to get accustomed to it.
"Rowan? Damien? Kai?" My voice is hoarse, I bet it's from the eerie screams I released earlier.
"Are you good?" They all rush to my side.
"Has she started her training yet? What time of the day is it?" I lift my head up and I met with a terrible headache.
"You do not have to bother. We have postponed her training plus she's been inside all day and we think she needs the rest. Serene has been patrolling around this place for long. We decided to not inform her about what's going on with you. And for context, it's dawn." Rowan explains staring at me straight in my eyes.
"Good. What's going on with the clan currently?" I prop myself up using the pillows by the bedside.
"Oh no you don't. You only struggle with the … whenever you leave the palace. Where exactly did you go to Lucian and what exactly were you up to? What if Rowan had for some reason not stopped what we were all doing. You could have hurt, it could have been Mira! We deserve an explanation." Damien says, drawing a chair to sit on.
"Honestly, I can't remember leaving this place. I know the restrictions I have on myself. We have someone we have to protect. I definitely wouldn't do anything stupid. At least not to this extent." I explain to them with sincerity.
"Could it be Mira then? Something seems off about her though." Kai squints. He is the most intelligent among us.
"What has she got to do with this?" Rowan growls obviously displeased they're shifting it off to her.
"Hold on, Mr Protector. Damien who rarely ever gets turned on was in the mood yesterday! Lucian that has not had relapsed of the curse struggled for the first time in more than a hundred years."
"You, yourself, I can feel your wolf is agitated. I'm sure I'm sure I'll have my own side reactions, I just need to figure it out and they all happened in one day. After we went to mate and mark with her! This is not just a mere coincidence. We really have to look into this." He suggests.
"Not after we find the cure to Lucian's relapse. We can't keep using silver."
"I strongly suggest on whatever we are doing, we keep a very close eye on Mira."