Reborn As Cursed Alpha's Mate-Chapter 62: His Betrayal

"Remember, I told you about the curse on my pack?" He softly asked.

"Yes!" Cassandra was trying not to choke at this point.

"That curse is not limited to me. It extends to my mate as well. Hence, the reason I never wished to find her, find you," he spoke, stashing away the pain that was cinching his heart.

"And yet you did. Why?" Cassandra questioned, her eyes never wavering from him.

"Because my Pack’s well-being was dependent on finding you. You are to bring fertility and love to the pack. The two key elements that are missing. And I was to take this oath of never mating with you or producing an heir," Siroos tried to explain the bitter truth.

"You are not making any sense. I am just a girl who doesn’t even possess magic. What have I got to do with all this?" Cassandra shook her head in perplexity. This had got to be a mistake.

Why was she being punished by being mated like that?

Why was she to be part of a curse?

She tried to free her ankle from his stronghold, but he kept his grip on her with a pleading look.

"I don’t know, Cassandra. But Arkiam (god of thunder) came to my mother in a dream and informed her that the only way to save our pack was for me to find you and take an oath. If I was to break it, the consequences would be suffered by my pack."

"This all seems like a myth Siroos. I thought you didn’t believe in gods and wished to make your own destiny." Cassandra shook her head in denial. The truth was extremely painful.

"As much as I dislike them, I cannot deny their existence. It’s not a myth. Remember that creature you saw on our way here from your kingdom. Those were Valkyries, sent by Arkiam to ensure I kept the oath or the repercussions would be disastrous."

Cassandra gasped as realisation hit her. He had protected her at that time, too, but had hidden the truth at the same time.

She asked. "They came for you? How disastrous are we talking about?"

"Yes, to warn me to not break the promise I had made. Haven’t you noticed how few kids are in the pack? There hasn’t been a single birth in the last year. Ranon and Lana have been mated for five years and yet they have not been blessed by a child."

This was such a grievance for Siroos, the number of children born was dwindling with every passing day.

Cassandra had noticed this, and she had no clue that the Beta couple had been mated for so long.

"Yes, very few children. Is that part of the curse?" She questioned in disbelief. How could gods be so cruel to place such a curse?

"We believe so. But it will change now with me marking you, especially after the rituals we have performed. Keeping in mind that we cannot mate," he informed her with a tired sigh. Carrying a curse and the burden of a whole pack was not breezy. It was chipping away at his sanity.

"And what if we do mate?" She carefully questioned, trying to hold onto her sanity. Her brain was a mess from his truths. The ones she had asked for him to reveal.

"Then every female in our pack will go barren, and the pack will die out, eventually." He laid out the last harrowing detail of the curse.

The very essence of why Cassandra was so vital to the pack. Yet there was a chance she wouldn’t be given the required respect as she wouldn’t be able to give an heir to their Alpha.

"That’s cruel," Cassandra cried out and the tears finally spilled from her eyes.

As much as she found the curse terrible, she couldn’t help but think she was nothing but a pawn in this game between gods and this pack.

She now understood why she was there. Why he went to such ordeals to bring her along.

It wasn’t because he cared for her, it was because he needed to keep her safe. To be his precious trophy for the well-being of the pack.

All his ramblings of...

’I will protect you!’

’I will keep you safe!’

Made so much more sense to her.

And here she had begun to believe that Siroos Dusartine had a soft spot for her.

It was all for the curse. That’s why he tested her to see when she would be thrown into his reality; she wouldn’t run. Her heart was too soft and she would never push a whole clan towards its extinction.

"It is, that’s why I need you my Malakti, my Luna," his desperation was so vivid as he tried to reach out and wipe away the leaking salty water.

It felt like a heinous sin to see her cry. What wouldn’t he give just to stop those tears?

"You don’t need me, Alpha Siroos Dusartine. It’s your pack. That’s why I am here. That’s why you were so adamant to drag me here." Her voice shook as a conglomeration of emotions simmered in her aching chest.

She heaved herself away from his hold. Not wanting any skin contact with him. Curling up into herself, her legs rammed against her chest.

Her accusing words were the rain of acid which burnt him not physically but in every other possible way.

"That’s not true..."

"Stop lying, at least don’t fall so low that you won’t be able to look at yourself in the mirror. Please! Leave," Cassandra whimpered, her voice so hoarse as if he had choked her with just his words.

"Malakti!" He began again, his face masked with deep ravines of regret and misery. His hands trembled, the ones that never did no matter how many lives they took and yet in front of her, he was incapacitated.

"I am not your Malakti. Just a gem you won in the arena. I wish for you to leave. Just leave me alone right now."

"....."

Burying her head between her legs, Cassandra began to softly cry. She wasn’t someone who made a racket or shouted in such instances. She just went silent and punished herself for existing. Her body trembled and Siroos could do nothing but helplessly watch.

The scent of saffron had turned to the scent of betrayal, his betrayal. So pungent that it choked him. It stood like an ugly truth between them.

"Cassandra!" He called out to her one last time. Hoping she would let him soothe her.

"Go away..." she said with a sob.

Like a broken man, he clamoured on his feet. His world had collapsed, shattered into countless pieces, like he knew it would and he had no strength to even pick them up.

He couldn’t let her ball her eyes out, he knew she would all night long. He needed to comfort her, she wouldn’t let him touch her but there could be another way.

With silent steps, Siroos exited the chamber of his mate but he didn’t fully close the door and stayed just outside, concocting a plan.

He waited, listening to her stifled cries. Hoping for them to lower. After what seemed like hours they finally did.

He shifted.

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