Reborn As Cursed Alpha's Mate-Chapter 61: The Stinging Truth

Siroos headed over to Cassandra’s chamber. Ranon stood guard outside.

"Everything under control?" Siroos asked to which Ranon nodded dutifully.

Siroos entered the chamber by pushing the door open and found Lana and Cassandra in talks. Both of them halted and gazed in his direction.

"Lana! You can head back with Ranon. I need to speak with my mate."

Lana bid farewell to Cassandra, bowed to her Alpha and left them, quietly closing the door behind her.

For a few seconds, Siroos basked in the scent of his mate that permeated every corner of her chamber. It made the emotions boil in his chest as if he was cooking them in a cauldron.

Laying with her elbow elegantly plopped on one of the fluffy cushions, Cassandra’s toned legs were spread out, offering him a full view of her milky skin.

"Did you take your medicine? How is your arm?" Siroos asked as she stared at him with mixed emotions without answering his questions, Cassandra bluntly asked.

"Who is Kela to you?"

Keeping her eyes focused on him she gawked for his reaction.

He faltered only slightly before resuming control and burying all the emotions deep down where no one could find them.

The way Cassandra had asked the question, Siroos understood, she knew or at least had some idea.

"No one important now," he cryptically answered, which made Cassandra deliberately scoff.

"She was someone important before you found me. Was she not?"

Siroos tried to take a step towards her but she raised her left hand, making him halt.

"Stay where you are and answer truthfully. I heard you are a man of your word. I would like to see you prove it." There was this boldness in her words, she was proving to be the queen he had exalted her to.

Siroos grunted in disapproval but crossed his arms and ceased his steps. He didn’t wish to hurt his mate more than necessary but this was a dangerous path she had chosen to tread on. It will leave her battered, emotionally.

"Yes! She was my lover. I had no intention of taking a mate. There was a one-in-a-million chance that I would," he truthfully answered.

Cassandra snaked in a breath; her lungs hurt, and her heart hurt too from this information, and yet she remained relentless in asking her next question.

"Did you sleep with her?"

The question hung like an ominous mist between them; the answer would seep into the flesh of both of them, suffocating them both.

"I did, but I haven’t touched her since I found you, and I won’t. Like I said, I am a man of principles," he bluntly answered, there was no easy way to do this.

Cassandra closed her eyes for the briefest of seconds, letting the misty tendrils of truth wreck her heart.

She wasn’t in his life when that happened then why did it hurt so much?

She opened them again so he could clearly see the hurt his words had caused. A shudder went through him seeing her in such pain.

"Weren’t you watching her dance before you came to me on the night before our bonding ceremony?"

Cassandra begrudgingly asked, watching how his hold on his arm kept tightening and his jaw going rigid with every question she threw at him. His eyes were swirling lava pits, the gold in them had melted to rage as he finally spoke in a hollowed voice.

"It was necessary, I never wanted to."

Cassandra let out a scornful laugh, it was hurtful and dry.

"So let me just lay it out for you. You had a lover, but due to your mother’s prophecy, you set out to claim a mate you had never seen or met. Kidnapped her without her consent, brought her here. Showered her with your fake affections so she will become attached to you. But you have no intention of bedding her or giving her a child. You will return to your former lover, whom you so conveniently forgot to mention. The question arises. Where were your principles when you made these decisions? Why am I here, Alpha Siroos?" Cassandra asked, fighting back tears. They shone like diamonds in her eyes as candle light was reflected in them.

The ground seemed to have shifted from underneath his feet. She knew the harsh truths he had been trying to shield her from. The hurt he saw reflected there, was like a thunderstrike to his heart, jolting it.

Her earlier distraught behaviour made sense now. Thankfully, he hadn’t marked her, or the hurt she was experiencing must have doubled.

"You don’t know the whole truth, Malakti. I didn’t reveal them because of this very reason. Hurting you was never my agenda," Siroos spoke in a grim tone.

"What was your agenda? Apart from keeping secrets and manipulation. Enlighten me Alpha Siroos," Cassandra taunted without raising her voice. She wished to keep this between them but the hurt crawling up her chest was slowly smothering her. She wasn’t sure how long she would be able to keep that facade.

The prospect of spending a loveless life was becoming real with every second. To have a male’s affections was every woman’s dream. Cassandra never had a male’s love before and Siroos had entered her life like this blinding storm and had swept her away.

He had ignited a torch of hope in her dark life and now he was about to shove her into a bottomless dark abyss, himself.

She never fully understood why she craved love so much. Why was it to be of utmost importance in her life when she had never received it?

"Cassandra! Let me hold you. I will explain everything," he requested, the spirits inside him had begun to squirmish. Making him uneasy.

’Mate is hurt,’ the dragon blazed, wishing to surface and burn something.

’We have failed her,’ the lion roared.

’We were supposed to protect her,’ the snake hissed.

’Let’s steal her again and fly away with her,’ the eagle offered.

Cassandra was unaware of the inner turmoil and most of the outer turmoil of Siroos’s life. He didn’t wish to burden her with matters which he could handle alone, like the Elders of the pack and every detail of the curse. But this was a point where he could no longer do that.

He desperately watched her, every part of his skin crawled with a need to be near his mate, to absorb the very hurt his words would cause her and already had.

"Stay where you are, I would appreciate it if you tell me everything now. Every word," she sniffled stubbornly.

Not letting the tears fall from her amethyst shaded eyes. They swam freely there, taunting him.

Siroos’s shoulders slouched at her words. The Alpha who feared not even the gods or worshiped them would gladly fall into their feet in that moment to spare his mate of this hell he was about to shove her in.

He slowly lowered himself on the ground and kneeled in front of her, his hand reaching out to hold her ankle which was adorned with the anklet he had given her as a token of his eternal commitments and care. Which he would want to bloom into love someday.

But for now, his actions sought forgiveness and all he wished was for her to grant it.

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