Unbreakable bond

Ashlyn's POV
I stared at him emotions swirling around and inside of me. His gaze unwavering from my eyes with so much emotions radiating from them. Different emotions of anger,hurt, perplexity and remorse all etched on his face.
This was the first time I was seeing him this way. Perhaps he was genuinely hurt by what he did? Was he remorseful about it? Or was just this just an act?
I pushed him off from me and smiled bitterly. "Really?" I asked him and turned to his subjects,his comrades,his mistresses who all stared in shock and bewilderment.
"I am his mate and yet he treats me like a good for nothing!" I said and he pulled me back in anger.
"Being my mate does not change in thing." He said through gritted teeth.
"Does carrying your child for a while do?" I asked him equally angry.
He clenched his jaw before responding. "Nothing has changed Ashlyn. We're still maintaining the kind of relationship we have." He said.
"A Master and mistress relationship?" I asked him angling my head in the right direction to stare awfully at him properly.
"Yes." He said to me.
I flung my arm away from his grasp. "I lost my child today,may I go and mourn in peace?" I asked him already tired of seeing his face.
He stood rigidly placing his hand behind his back with his eyes away from me and his head angled in another direction.
"There's no need to mourn over what was barely formed in your womb." He said in cruelty.
Where was the man that sounded hurt moment ago by the death of his child?
"How heartless can you be Lucifer Saunron?" I asked him in bitterness.
"More than you can ever imagine." He said and turned to me with the most coldest eyes I've never seen. Devoid of emotions. "You have tasks to be done than for you to sit and mourn the dead." He said.
I stared at him in shock. He was a monster.
"From now to tomorrow morning,you shall attend to all the needs of the pack house and if by the darkest hour,your services are no longer needed by them,you shall come over to my chambers and watch me sleep." He said giving an outrageous task without sparing a glance my way.
"What?" I muttered. If he did not want me to mourn,he could have simply said so than passing out an insensitive task.
"Failure to do so," he began and then shot a deadly glare at me. "The consequences shall be severe." He said,his tone underlying a warning as he stared at me with cold bloodshot eyes.
"You're evil." I said to him as tears choked my voice again.
He turned to the pack members that still lingered around. "This is Ashlyn Ambrosia,my mate!" He said in a vicious and audible voice.
"Nothing will change. She still remains my mistress and nothing else! She'd be treated the way she was treated before and perhaps even worse," he said and turned to me.
"She's my mate but I shall never regard her as one." He openly declared and I felt a sinking feeling down my stomach.
"I pray you're haunted by the cries of the child." I said to him looking at him dead in the eye with pain and hatred.
"It would not be a first." He said with those same cold eyes.
I swallowed. How much more callous could he be? "You know what?" I asked him and he raised a self conceited brow. "I'm glad that child was not brought forth to this world to have a father like you." I said to him and he stared at me expressionless and I walked away from him with tears in my eyes to begin my task of serving all of the Nightwing members.
Lucifer's POV
Her words pierced through my heart like a knife and was buried in there unmoving. I groped frantically to pull it out,not to let it get into me but I was fruitless.
Felt like I was dying inside. Like I was losing the little sanity I had left. I walked out of the pack house and how I managed to get to the forest I did not know but as soon as I was far from the house,out of the earshot of my people,I let out a frustrated cry kicking everything in sight.
I felt like I was standing on a thin rope groping for support. Groping for life.
I fell to my knees as my heart clenched and the pain threatening to cover me. The pain threatening to suffocate me as I remembered her last words.
What was happening to me? I am Lucifer Saunron and a woman should never make me feel like this! I was losing my ability of control around her. I was losing everything!
I gave her those outrageous tasks so I would not act all soft around her in front of my pack. Soon,they shall begin to see me as a weakling and I cannot allow that!
I groaned again in frustration. I was confused. Steel was raving at me for giving such orders to her but I was not listening to him. I was barely thinking straight about it all.
I cannot let Ashlyn believe she was my savior sent to save me from my own self. From my own destruction. I myself did not want to believe that.
If she knows about it all,know the circumstances surrounding my birth,would she not use it against me and make me beg and suffer at her feet? No! I could not allow that.
I could not allow her to see through me. I could not allow anyone to see what was going on inside of me.
I could not let them see the pain and agony I was facing. I could not let them see that behind this cruel brute's heart was a man afraid of the world crushing down on him. Afraid of never escaping his own shadow.
Behind this heartlessness was a man afraid to love again for fear that it might be his doom. The unhappiness within him masked by the stone coldness of his heart.
All the worries and insecurities locked inside of him that he never lets anyone see and it felt like Ashlyn was reaching out to break those walls around him but he could not let that happen.
I was hurt by the death of my child that did not get the chance to see this world of ours but how could I show it all? I was not a man of many emotions but here was Ashlyn making me become the complete opposite of myself.
Roselia's POV
I quivered as I watched this all happening. The alpha was not ready to accept the truth in front of him. I'd hoped Ashlyn was his mate and thus,my sudden unexplainable likeness towards her than any of his mistresses and now that it has been confirmed, he's still yet to accept her.
Oh Queen Katrin, what do I do now? Your son is fighting with his destiny. With the way things are evolving,I do not think he's ready to break free from the trade,I said to myself looking up at the ceiling as flashes of what the late Queen said to me went through my mind.
Would he keep fighting this or would he accept that his birth stars are finally going to change?
This cruel fate he'd had to endure since he was born. "Oh King Charles,"I called on his father. "The things you'd feared while alive are beginning to unfold before my very eyes and yet I cannot do anything about it." I muttered to myself.
Lucifer's father had been worried that his son's coldness and stubbornness would not permit him to see the truth before his own eyes and be free.
I sighed. I could not do anything about it or get involved. No one could. This was solely on the alpha himself to battle his own demons alone and be free from them. There was nothing anyone could do. Only him could do this. Just him alone.
Lucifer's POV
I walked back into the house and saw Sofia standing and it looked like she'd been waiting for me.
"Lucifer," She called.
"Not now Sofia. I'm not in the right frame of mind for a discussion." I said walking past her without waiting to get a reply.
I got to my room hoping a bath would relieve me of my stress and wash away every thought of Ashlyn's stinging words.
It did not work a bit. Every of her outright hurtful words was imbedded in my heart. I walked out of the bathroom hoping to find some sort of remedy to it all when I found her walking into my room still clad in my shirt.
I swallowed. Damn this cursed fate. It always had a way of playing tricks on me.
She lowered her head. "I'm here to resume my duty." She said in a low voice and all I could do was stare at her naked thighs.
Was this how she went being an help to the pack members? Steel growled and I was suddenly possessive.
"Where do you want me to stand?" She asked walking past me to stand close to the bed and I pulled her back pinning her on the wall and she heaved.
I immediately got pulled into her eyes and was lost in them unable to look away.
Steel too was looking. Searching for something, someone just like I was. Her stare was unwavering as I probed into her eyes,into her soul seeking and searching for something I knew I would not be able to hold.