Tangled Hearts - The Alpha's Baby Mama-Chapter 23: Witnessing a murder...

Selene POV

After Noah left the room, I crumbled to the ground and began to sob.

It was happening again. I was losing control of my life just like I had before, and it bothered me so much.

A knock sounded on the door and hurriedly, I cleaned the worst of my dears, hoping it was not the girls. I couldn’t stand for them to watch me like this. I rose to my feet and smoothened my rumpled gown.

"Come in," I shouted.

The door opened and Lucius peeked his head inside the room. Our gazes met and held.

"Lucius," he was the last person I was expecting.

"Hurry, we don’t have time," he said, throwing the door open while peering at the corridor. "We have to be fast before anyone notices,".

"Okay," I hurried towards him and together, we navigated the dark corridors of the pack house until we burst out at the back of the house.

I stopped to catch my breath and also turned to Lucius for an explanation. "Where are we going to? Why are you in so much hurry?"

"The Lycan King and Xavier would be visiting the prison with the foxes in it to question them. I overhead the Lycan saying they’ll be induced to say the truth and we all know that they’re going to say. We need to prevent that,".

I stared at him for a moment, trying to understand what it was he was doing. A few days ago, he had been begging me to make up with Xavier but to think that he wanted to keep my children hidden and my identity hidden worried me so much. What did he have in mind?

"Why are you doing this, Lucius?" I stare at him. "Xavier trusts you so much, and he’ll believe anything you tell him. Why haven’t you told him about me yet?"

"Because I want both of you to find your lost love, but let him hear it from your mouth directly. Third party messes things up, Selene, and no matter what, I wouldn’t want that for you,".

"But it’s abortive no matter how much I think about it. He’s still going to hate me. It’s our fate,".

"But a lot of things have changed recently, don’t you think? And to say the truth, the prophecy lacks potency to me these days. It said that both of you won’t be able to survive a day without each other, but it’s been three years now. If there’s anything I know about the passage of time is that a lot of things can change,".

"You think it’ll work for me and Xavier?" My brows scrunched with doubts.

"It’s already working," Lucius said quietly. "Anyways, let’s hurry. It takes about 10 minutes for the new guards to replace the old shifts. It’s more than enough time for us,".

"Enough time?’ to do what?" I asked, walking briskly beside him.

"To kill the foxes,".

"What!" I exclaimed as my steps faltered. "You’re taking me with you to kill people? Why?"

"There’s no other way, Selene. We have to act now. If the Lycan King and Xavier get to them first, it’ll be messier than you can ever think. This isn’t the way Xavier should find out about you," Lucius urged.

My eyes flickered with a mix of apprehension and regret as I stared behind me, hoping someone would show up at this moment. And also regretted why I hadn’t asked for the details from Lucius before going with him.

"The idea of bloodshed is against every principle I hold dear. I’m sorry, Lucius, but I can’t be a part of this,".

I watched as his jaws clenched as he ran a hand through his tousled hair. He takes a step closer to me, his gaze locking onto mine.

"Listen to me, Selene. If we don’t stop them, then your entire world will crumble. If Xavier should know that you’ve been alive all this while, the council will not hesitate to ask you to hand your children over to him. All these years would be for nothing. Is that what you want?"

The thought of losing my children made my heart palpitate with fear.

"There has to be another way, Lucious. I can’t just... I can’t be a part of this violence,".

Lucius exhaled, as his eyes searched mine. "I am not asking you to kill them. I’ll do that and it’ll be painless and quick, but I need you to be there so they can confess the reason they had come. Is it too hard for you to do?"

"What if someone catches us?"

"The more time will waste, the more time we put ourselves at risk. We should have finished up by now. C’mon, let’s go," he urged again.

Reluctantly, I allowed myself to be towed away until we got to the holding cell. Everywhere had a strong smell of garlic. Passing me a mask, Lucius and I strapped on before he unlocked the cell. The foxes were lying now, almost unconscious at the first cell we saw.

Lucius used his signet ring to hit on the iron bars of the prison, rousing the men. Their eyes fluttered around weakly until finally, they fixed on us. Recognition entered the eyes of the man who had seemed like their leader that day.

"You’re here," he said weakly. "I presume you’re here to make a deal and I’m willing else I’ll spill everything I know,".

My hands trembled beside me as I clutched at my dress. "What things do you know about me?" I tried to sound calm.

"For one, you’re Xavier’s Luna and ran away just to be with the Lycan King. You left your husband, your pack and your duties and don’t get me started with your cursed children..." the man howled but entered into a spasm of coughing that lasted for more than a minute.

"Your children are blue-eyed wolves... babies born with their wolves are a curse to any wolf clan. Wait until the Lycan King finds out...," he wheezed. He’ll kill you and kill your children without remorse. Don’t think riding his dick would save you. Also, the council will have you..."

"That’s enough," Lucius interrupted him from the side. "You deserve what is coming to you,".

Then he turned to me and asked me to wait for him outside of the prison. I hurried out, as my heart began to pound in fright. Five minutes passed and there was no sign of Lucius. Just as I was about to go back in and look for him, he came out.

"Sorry, that took so long," he said, cleaning his hands on his sleeves. "Let’s go,".

"Well, well, well," a shrill, woman’s voice emerged from the corners of the prison clapping her hands "What are the chances of witnessing a murder every day of your life by a Luna and Beta....".

It was Belinda.