<h4>Chapter 151: Chapter 151: Come Back to Me</h4>


    Aeron’s POV~


    I could not believe my own eyes. For months, I had thought this day might nevere, and yet here he was, Lucian. My baby brother.


    The first shock still burned inside me when the second one hit even harder. Why now? Why suddenly? Why choose this night of all nights to appear?


    Hope, joy, happiness—they all flooded me, rising too fast for me to hold. I wanted to go to him. I wanted to wrap him in my arms like Kael did, like Luca did, to feel for myself that he was real, standing here after all this time.


    But I didn’t move.


    I only smiled, watching the three of them cling to each other, my brothers, the boys I had raised with my own hands even when we are of the same age. They were happy, and so was I. But unlike them, I could not show it, one of us has to take the responsibility here.


    It was not because Icked love. No, I loved Lucian more than I could ever say. But the timing... it was wrong. Because lying in front of us, on ournd, was Alpha Navien, broken, disgraced and humiliated.


    He was the council’s hound.


    I never liked him or his arrogance, but I knew the truth, this mess happened in our territory, which meant the council woulde for us.


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    And when they came, they would not care about love or family reunions. They would only see Navien’s blood staining our soil.


    A headache was already pressing against my temples. Peace, if there ever was such a thing for us... was gone. Chaos was walking straight into my life again.


    Lucian’s eyes found mine. He smiled. A small, steady smile that reached deep inside me.


    I nodded back. No words, just that. We both knew we would talkter, alone. He must have known I could not show my heart here. Because we couldn’t simply ignore Alpha Navien and start celebrating here.


    I turned away and walked forward, toward the ruined body that started all this.


    Alpha Navien.


    I crouched beside him, ignoring the stench of blood. My fingers brushed his torn clothes aside as I inspected the wounds. No w marks. No bite wounds. No sign of a beast fight at all.


    His body was twisted, broken, crushed in ces no Alpha should ever fall. His ribs bent the wrong way. His arms shattered. And blood everywhere, bleeding as if someone had poured out a lifetime of anger on him.


    This was no clean fight. This was a pure hatred of someone.


    I checked again. Nothing—no trace of shifting, no hint of his wolf. That was the strangest part. An Alpha beaten this far should have shifted long before the end. Why didn’t he?


    My stomach turned when my eyes fell lower, to the wound no man could ever recover from. I almost gagged, my jaw tightening. Whoever did this wanted Navien destroyed, not just killed.


    Someone who hated him enough to take everything away.


    And that someone... was inside our pack.


    Because Navien had been found in the back forest thates under our pack grounds.


    The culprit must be from the pack because no one could have crossed those borders. They were guarded, sealed, safe. No outsider, no other race could havee here without being seen. So my doubt is that the culprit was present here.


    Which meant the hand that crushed him was one of ours.


    My eyes widened as the thought hit me like fire.


    Damn! Who did this bastard provoke to get to this situation? And he had hardly appeared in our pack so why would someone have an enmity with him and who is that strong that could beat an Alpha like him?


    The culprit should be at least an Alpha weight or maybe someone stronger and the only Alphas here are us brothers and that man... my eyes widened.


    Alpha Maximum? Could it be him? Is this why he had decided toe to our pack? Countless questions swirled in my mind and now my prime suspect was this man. Because he was the only stronger one here after Alphas.


    I sighed, rubbing my forehead again. Problems upon problems. Lucian’s return, Navien’s fall, the council’s threat of killing that witch.


    My peaceful life... what little of it I had was gone.


    I stood there too long, thinking of all possibilities but all of them pointed to that man and I also knew I had to end this spectacle.


    The crowd was watching, the whispers were turning sharp, and I did not want this mess to grow any bigger.


    "Cyrus," I said.


    He was there behind me like a shadow, silent, always ready. "Yes, Alpha," he answered.


    "Take him to the hospital," I said in a heavy tone. "Do everything possible to keep Alpha Navien alive. We have to keep him alive."


    Cyrus bowed his head and moved. A few warriors came forward and lifted the broken body. I watched them carry him away, the blood still dripping on the ground, and I wished to end this here.


    I wanted to stand, to leave, to breathe, to finally go to Lucian. To hug him. To ask him how he was, if he was well, if he was alright. For a moment I thought maybe I could have peace.


    But peace never belonged to me.


    Because before I could take one step, Meriya threw herself on me.


    She tried to press against me, crying like she had lost the world. Her voice rang with grief. "Aeron... how could someone do this? My uncle... he is all I have left. My father, my mother, they died protecting your father and now even my uncle is not safe. How can I live like this?"


    She clung to me like a drowning woman. Her hands tried to hold my arm, her body rubbed close. Disgust burned through me so sharp I shoved her off. My fingers curled into fists.


    And then she spoke of her father again. Of his sacrifice. Of how he gave his life for us. The only reason I held myself back was because of him. Because of the respect I carried for the man who had once saved our family.


    But Meriya... she was nothing like him.


    She had tested our patience too many times. Always throwing herself at us, always acting like we owed her, always lowering herself until she had no dignity left. How could the daughter of a man so noble fall this far?


    We had thought once, long ago, maybe she could be our mate. Maybe. Because the council wanted it. She wanted it. But the day we saw her true colors, the day we felt our real mate was out there, all those thoughts died.


    She never understood our problems or the fact that we already had our mate and we could never bring ourselves to make anyone else our mate.


    She clung to the dream of being Luna, even when we rejected her. She forced herself into the role, doing duties no one gave her, acting as if her obsession could make it true. It only made her look worse.


    We tried to guide her. Tried to give her chances. Tried to push her toward a life where she could be happy with someone else. But she refused everything. She wanted only us, even when we made it clear she would never have us.


    Now she used her father’s name as a weapon against me, again and again, until even that lost all meaning. She wanted me to feel guilty, but I felt nothing now. Only emptiness. Only disgust.


    I looked at her pitiful act and I saw a truth I could not change. Some people could never be corrected.


    I turned away from her. I ignored her sobs, her hands, her words. I left her there and walked out.


    Inside the pack house the air was calmer, though my mind was not. I started walking towards Alpha quarters.


    Countless questions swirled inside my mind, I was still lost in thoughts of Navien, of the council, of the storm about to fall on us. My hand unknowingly brushed against my pocket and I felt it... the bracelet.


    Her bracelet.


    It had been with Luca but I took it from him and now it was with me. I found myself turning it again and again in my pocket, the small circle of it moving under my fingers. It soothed me in a way nothing else could. Each shift of it calmed my nerves, as if it carried a piece of peace for me.


    Just by the touch alone I felt like she was just beside me, her scent calming the chaotic thoughts, her touch soothing every nerve.


    I closed my eyes, before sighing heavily and broken words left my mouth...


    "Come back, dear, I will make everything right for us."


    "I need you...we need you. Everything feels like it’s falling apart and I don’t know how much longer I can hold it together"