My Vow to the Ruthless Alpha

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Amara's POV

Lucian smiled, pulled me gently so I land on his warm chest. A weak spark at the beginning that almost buzzed my body with unexplained jolt. Just a moment later, it surprisingly put my heart to delight as Lucian tighten his hug, a way to express to every people in the feast that I belong to him now.

Maybe this decision is not as impulsive as I thought will be? With this marriage, even its political, I had fulfilled Celine’s requirement as my payment toward my debt for them saving my mother and I don’t have to waste my energy for rekindle my feeling toward Damon after that betrayal. I hope this is the best choice I take. No. I must believe this is the destined choice I should through for better live.

“Amara!”

A sudden scream of rage from Celine, walk furiously in her heels from doorway to the center of ballroom. It’s my first time to see my mistress stare at me intensely with her eyes burned with wrath and anger.

“Who is she…? She wear same red dress just you are.”, Lucian ask me in flat tone.

“She is the actual Celine from Crimson Valley Pack.”, I answered while preparing myself due to the pressure Celine bring to the feast.

“Stay close with me, Amara.” Lucian hold me as I want to release myself for explaining such occurrence to Celine properly. I’m guessing he can read Celine’s mischievous plan.

Such plan is crystal clear for me when I just realize Celine coming in along ide with Damon. My hearts stutters when Damon look at me with his puffy eyes, still trying to return to the dream we had built together for year. Instead of joy for revenge, a guilty filled my heart, suffocate my breath.

“Alpha Lucian, the great king of Lycan…! I’m the real Celine of Crimson Valley Pack. I should be your mate, not my maid. She brings nothing to your glorious position. I demand you, Amara, to rescind the vow.”

Celine sound like a different person to me for saying such words. Perhaps she changes her mind after she realized how breathtakingly handsome Lucian is.

‘Amara, I know you heard me. Listen, you ungrateful bastard. You can take Damon back and our Shaman will be pledged to your mother after you rescind your vow. Say it now!’

Suddenly, sound of Celine echoes inside of my head. I know it’s one of Celine’s wolf perks, to communicate with telepathy. She doesn’t want to look bad by scolding me right in front of Lucian.

‘I know very well you always tell your love story with Damon to your mother, right? How hurtful it be for your mother to know you’re picking another man that you even barely know? You mother will not accept it! She will be stressed to death!’

I honestly don’t know how to react, but I sense some truth from Celine’s agitated words. Looking at Damon, his regret portrayed all over in his face, washing over my heart with guilt and doubt over this political marriage. Lucian obviously ignite sparks in my heart, but there’s a quite difference compared with Damon who had long established love with me. Even my body can’t lie, still longing for Damon’s gentle touch.

Should I return to Damon?Lucian lifted my chin, stopping my mind reminiscing the past. He want my full attention only to him not to other people, and other man. “You’re mine, Amara. No need to see another man except to me. If you’re still can’t move on, I’m the one who will eliminate your past.”

The moment I respond the vow for Lucian, I know I can’t rescinded it so easily as Celine want to. It is a disgrace to the sacred purpose of mate bond. My mother might curse me for this choice. But mother always warn me to stay true to my heart, even its painful to do it.

Slowly, I gripped Lucian’s arms, gradually shift my attention from Damon to Lucian because I know it will be a mockery for Lucian if my heart and eyes keep longing on Damon, my past.

“Yes, my alpha. I belong to you and you alone.”, I finally reply as Luna usually does to her mate, even the words come out awkwardly.

“Great answer, Amara.”, Lucian hugged me again deeply as his mouth land on my neck. A sudden warmth and his soft breath have deliver me to unspeakable joy.

‘Amara! So this is your way to play your game?! You don’t care anymore about your mother life?! My Shaman will not tolerate this! There will be not any potion or any healing effort for your mother if you still insist on this marriage! Rescind it immediately!’

Celine threaten me using her wolf perks, her rage echoes so loudly inside my head. I can sense her jealousy by looking her fierce staring at me. Well, she’s not the only one who can telepath her communication.

‘Alpha Gabriel, your father, decide not to intervene on Lucian’s decision to choose his mate. As long as Lucian not declaring the war, he’s fine with whoever Lucian choose.’, I communicate the reasoning, but Celine clearly not satisfied with it.

‘Now you bringing my father? Lucian will not ever ask you as his mate if you’re not firstly introduce yourself as me! As Celine! I’m the real Celine! He supposed to be my mate! My Alpha!’

‘The vow is mentioning my name as his Luna. Not yours, Celine. You already get what you initially want, to have a leisure life with lot of man in your room, even Damon join in. Why bother yourself for Alpha Lucian?’

‘Such shameful act and words, Amara! You stole what I should supposed to have! After years you serve under my pack, now you’re betraying me? I’m done with it. I’ll take our Shaman so your mother no longer take the medication! Its your fault for bringing such disgrace to everybody!’

I stumbled, lose my words when Celine mentioned my mother. My hearts stuttered, can’t imagine how weak my mother would be if there’s no Shaman’s daily aid for her.

“I hear a silent bickering among us. No wonder the air seems full of tense. Why you ladies not invite me in to this intense conversation?”, Lucian smiled playfully, mocking Celine who goes freeze since he can heard our telepathy conversation.

“Please hear me out, Alpha Lucian. Amara is a maid, a weakling among werewolf who even can’t shift properly. Bring her as a mate is disgrace and mockery for your greatness, King Lycan! Nobody ever want her as a mate, even his childhood friend ditches her!”

“Enough. No more insulting my Luna.” Lucian loosen up his hug, placing himself between me and Celine. His back faced me, a strong and firm protection. His gaze is calm yet merciless toward Celine and Damon.

“I-I only said what I believe, oh great King Lycan.”, Celine shaking in fear, but not giving up on convincing him.

“And I’m not convinced yet with your believe, woman. You and your family pack is so naïve to think that I let myself chained with your weak pack by this marriage. I’m the King Lycan, the one who decide what it should be among packs. Long before Shadow Moon Pack come to this place, I already know how cheap and pathetic that body of yours is. All of you is lucky to bring Amara, because if not, then I will go as initially planned, for brutally crushing each all of you.”

A Huge and strong murderous intention from Lucian had successfully force both Damon and Celine took a step back. They know the King Lycan is not in a good mood for continue such conversation. Before Celine spit out her words, Lucian move so incredibly fast that he managed to choke both Celine and Damon only in a split of seconds.

“I don’t want waste my time to hear your nonsense. My decision already final and my Luna had fully determination on it. If I heard another mockery to Amara and her mother, then I will start the war by crushing this small and silly neck of you two!”, Lucian’s powerful threat, followed with his choke, one of the most feared power among the pack.

“I-it just a joke! I swear, we had no serious intention on it! I’m sorry for being so reckless….!”, Celine begging for a mercy. “W-we’re usually had this casual conversation, right, Amara?”, Celine’s shaking in fear as her life is in stake.

“Amara, what you want me to do with these two?”

Lucian’s question felt like he gives me the trigger, leaving the choice in my hands – pull it and end them or let them alive. I have every reason to end them for every betrayal and mockery they had done to me and my family.