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Chapter 38
Aurora’s POV. (Continued)
“If you think that you can’t sit… It’s okay… we can revise later…. Go and rest.” Noah mind-linked once again after some time. To be honest. I really wanted to lay down a bit. Selene was also stirring at the back of my mind from time to time.
It seemed that she wanted to communicate with me, but didn’t want to do it in front of them. “I.. I am okay.” I replied to him through mind-link while trying to concentrate on the question, but all the letters written on the paper were floating above the paper in front of my eyes.
“Guys… Let’s call the night.” Noah suddenly announced. “No..I still have three questions to finish.” Hunter immediately protested with a grunt. “Let me help you in my room. Aurora is not well, and I think, she should rest now.” Frank immediately chimed in and everyone started wrapping up their things.
Noah held my arm and gently pulled me up. “You should lie down now.” he ordered me while dragging me towards my bed. “Wait…. I need to gather my things first.” I protested but what my protest was in front of his persistence.
Nothing
He forced me to lie down, and then covered me with the sheet. “Stay here… I am going to bring something to eat for you.” He instructed me again, and I pouted.
I gave him the right nick name. Big Bad Alpha.
Igiggled once again while picturing him all gloomy and domineering after growing up mature. “He will look more like Alpha Adrian.” Selene whispered at the back of my mind. “What about Beast? Have you…. You contacted him yet?” I asked her out of curiosity,
Noah’s wolf, Beast, would shift for the first time on his 18th birthday, and it was still a few days to go. “You know that I can’t
anyone to contact me, right?” Selene asked me and I pouted once again. “What are you thinking?” I flinched when I heard Evan asking me something.
let
“You… you
you are still here?” I asked him in an alert tone. He frowned but didn’t answer me. He came to me and sat down on the edge of the bed. I kept my eyes glued on his each movement. He was my cousin but he also chose to abandon me back
then.
“Noah asked me to stay with you until he comes back.” He replied to me while looking at me calmly. “Oh.” I uttered it and relaxed my tense body. “You don’t need to stay vigilant against me, you know.” He said further and a bitter smile crept on my lips immediately.
I looked in the other direction to avoid his gaze. I heard him taking a deep breath. “I am sorry, Aurora.” I raised my brows in surprise and looked back at him. He had lowered his lashes, and I could see his guilty expression.
I couldn’t say it’s okay to him because his behaviour towards me all these years was not okay to me. They said that I was timid and fragile but why I was like this?
“It’s late… Yo.. you should go now.” I said to him in a low tone, still not looking at him. “I Lean’t say that I understand your pain and your anger, but clearly, I can’t, Aurora… But we… we are siblings… A… and yeah…. I am late to realize it th.. that we need to stick together with our blood relatives when they are down…..L.. I truly ashamed fo.. for what I did to you, Aurora…. I… I truly ashamed of myself.” He continued pleading to me.
I felt suffocating, and tears brimmed in my eyes. I blinked harder, trying not to cry, but I couldn’t stop my tears from falling The pain in my chest Intensified. I flinched harder when he suddenly held my hand. “Yo you are my only sister, Aurora…. Please forgive me.” He pleaded again and again in a choked tone
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“I don’t want to.” I yelled aloud while yanking my hand from his grip when I couldn’t bear to hear his pleas. “Yo… you have this choice of let me go, and being my tormentor. I also have this choice of whether forgive you or not, and I chose not to.
Let… Let’s just stay
stay the way we are like now… and keep our distances. I continued yelling at him while crying bitterly.
His eyes were widened in shock, and hurt was written all over his face. I moved my gaze from him to the other side once again. I didn’t want him to stare at me. So, I pulled the sheet over my head and cried silently.
“What’s going on?” I heard Noah’s voice, and a loud sob escaped my lips, as I felt aggrieved. “Evan… What did you do?” he yelled at Evan. “L… I did nothing.. I swear… I… I just wanted to say sorry to her.” Evan stuttered lightly in panic while answering Noah.
“Out.” Noah yelled at him once again. I sobbed again but put my hand on my mouth to m**e my voice. I heard some rustling and coming and going footsteps but I didn’t lift the sheet. There was silence in the room after I heard the closing of the door.
I knew Noah was still in the room, but I didn’t want him to see me crying again. I tried to suppress my emotions, but it was now hard for me. After enduring so much all these years, I thought that I would be numb to all those emotions, but
It still hurt…..
Evan, was my cousin. a close blood-relative…..
Yet he not only ignored our relationship but treated me as trash. I closed my eyes when Noah slowly removed the sheet from my face. “I want to sleep.” I said to him, trying to hold the sheet in my face. Yet he didn’t listen to me and pulled the sheet away.
“Noah… I want to be alone.” I yelled at him angrily in a choked tone. I flipped on the other side in the end so that he couldn’t see my tear-stained face. “Aaahhh.” I screamed when he grabbed my arm and pulled me up.
I glared hard at him while tears continued streaming down. He put his hand at the back of my head and forced it to his chest. “Let me go.” I struggled hard, but huffed in the end. Why was I so weak? All the she-wolves of my age in the pack had a good strength… At least they could fight in their defense, but me?????
“Don’t be angry, okay? If you don’t want to forgive him, you don’t need to.” He comforted me but I snorted this time. “What about you, then? Should I forgive you?” I asked him angrily in a choked tone, trying to lift my head from his chest.
He stiffened and tightened his grip on my waist and my head. “Tell me, Noah… Should I forgive you or I also have a choice in this matter?” I asked him again while sobbing aloud. I didn’t know why I became so cranky sometimes, but I wanted to beat someone to vent my anger.
There was tense silence once again as he didn’t answer me for a good minute. I scoffed and stopped struggling. I stopped crying, but was still sobbing softly. I was tired and really wanted to sleep. I sighed when I felt a surge of energy inside my body through our bond.
He, once again, was sharing his energy with me. “Don’t do this.” I asked him in a worried tone. He was an alpha, and sharing his energy on the regular basis could harm his body and his strength. “Do you hate me so much that… That you don’twant to share my strength with you?” he asked me in a bitter tone.
I once again pouted and slowly moved my face up. He lowered his head and looked at me, “Y you are an alpha, Noah. Sharing your strength on the regular basis can harm you.” I explained my reason to him in a calm tone.
I saw his Adam apple bobbing. I blinked when I noticed change in heartbeat too. I just blinked while looking into his eyes. 1 clearly saw forming that silver ring around his irises and once again, I was mesmerized by the scene in front of me.
Suddenly he closed his eyes and leaned down. He kissed my forehead and took a deep breath. “Eat something first…. then, you
can rest.” He instructed me in a hurried tone. I frowned but didn’t say a word this time.
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He slowly pulled me away from him and got up from the bed. I was feeling better now but it made me worried for Noah. I saw his retreating back worriedly. He went to the bathroom.
“You are really something. Aurora” Selene remarked at me with a teasing chuckle. “Now what I did?” I asked her immediately while rolling my eyes annoyingly. Noah seemed fine on the surface, but I could feel his exhaustion.
“You don’t want to forgive him for what he did to you all these years yet you are worried for him. Don’t you feel a contradiction here?” she replied to me in the same teasing tone, Noah came back with a wet towel in his hand.
He stopped near me and gently wiped my face. “I….. I can do it by myself.” I tried to take the towel from him while blushing awkwardly.
“Stay still.” He immediately scolded me in a low tone, and kept on cleaning my face. My voice was a bit h**e due to all crying. I wanted to protest but one stern look from him and all my bravery vanished into thin air.
To be honest, his care had already melt my heart. Still I couldn’t make myself to forgive him. Selene was right. I wasn’t behaving normally in these circumstances.
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