Desperate Hope
Desperate Hope
Scarlett’s POV:
I watched as Lucian sat in our bedroom, my letters scattered around him like fallen leaves. His hands trembled as he picked up each one, reading them over and over until the paper was stained with his
tears.
“Lottie ”
he whispered, tracing my landwriting. “My weet, faithful Lottie…” he whispered, tracing my hat
Every few minutes, he would press the letters to his chest, as if trying to hold onto some piece of me.
“I’m sorry,” he choked out. “I was such a fool. Such a worthless mate.”
Through our bond, I felt his anguish twisting deeper with each word he read.”
“It was always you,” he continued, his voice breaking You were the only one who truly loved me. The only one who never betrayed me.”
He picked up another letter, this one describing how I felt watching him with Lily.
“I was just so angry,” he confessed to the paper. “When Lily chose James over me, it broke my heart. As a man, my pride was shattered and I couldn’t tolerate it. So I wanted to get revenge, to make her feel that same pain.‘
Blood dripped from his mouth as he laughed bitterly at his own words.
“But instead of hurting her, I destroyed you. The one person who would have died to protect me.” His laugh turned into a sob. “And you did die, didn’t you? You died protecting my worthless heart until the very end.”
Day after day, he read my letters. Sometimes he would read them aloud, his voice cracking on certain phrases.
“I hope you’re eating well,” he read, tears falling. “Even dying, you were worried about me. Even after everything I’d done…”
Sarah found him like this one morning, surrounded by tear–stained papers.
“Alpha,” she said softly from the doorway. “We need to talk about the funeral.”
“No.” The word came out as a growl.
“She deserves a proper ceremony,” Sarah pressed. “The pack wants to honor her-”
“Honor her?” Lucian’s laugh was sharp as broken glass. “Where was their honor when they whispered behind her back? When they called her a worthless omega?”
“This isn’t healthy,” Sarah stepped closer. “Her body you can’t keep her here forever.”
“Watch me.”
“Do you want to see her decay?” Sarah’s voice hardened. “Watch her beautiful face slowly rot away? Is that how you want to remember her?”
Desperate Hope
+25 BONUS
Through our bond, I felt horror pierce through his grief. The thought of my body deteriorating seemed to break something new in him.
“No, I won’t let you take her away, I want her to be with me, by my side.” Lucian growled, covering his face with his hands.
“Lucian, don’t go crazy.” Sarah shouted, “Scarlett is already dead, and you should now let her be buried in the Lumar Shrine Cemetery, let her rest in peace. My God, I beg you, when she was alive, you didn’t let her live well, why do you have to torture her even after her death.”
He sprang up so quickly that Sarah stepped back.
“Of course I have my ways. I can keep her.Get me the best craftsmen in the world,” he ordered, grabbing his phone. “I don’t care what it costs. I want something that will preserve her perfectly.”
Money flowed like water over the next weeks. He rejected design after design until they created something worthy of preserving his Luna.
The crystal coffin they finally crafted was a masterpiece of magical engineering. Made from rare materials that would keep my body pristine forever, it cost more than most packs earned in a decade.
“Look, my love,” he whispered as he gently placed my body inside. “Now you’ll stay as beautiful as the day I first met you. As perfect as you always were in my eyes.”
Every day after that, he would sit beside my crystal coffin for hours. Sometimes he would just stare at my face. Other times he would talk about our memories.
“Remember our first hunt together?” he asked my silent form. “I taught you tracking skills when you were only 14 years old.”
When I didn’t respond, he began working through the wish list he’d found among my things.
He spent days in the kitchen, burning himself repeatedly as he tried to recreate my recipes.
“I never appreciated how much work you put into cooking for me,” he told my body, nursing another burned hand. “How you learned every dish I liked, just to make me happy.”
The kitchen staff watched in silence as their Alpha failed again and again at the simplest recipes.
“No, this isn’t right,” he would mutter, throwing out another ruined attempt. “Hers was perfect. Everything she did was perfect.”
Fresh moonflowers appeared beside my coffin every morning – the blooms I’d loved but he’d never bothered to bring me in life.
“I was blind,” he said, arranging them carefully. “So caught.up in my revenge that I couldn’t see the treasure right in front of me.”
He took my preserved body to every place that held meaning for us. Each spot where we’d made memories, each location I’d mentioned loving in my letters.
The pack watched with growing concern as their Alpha carried a crystal coffin through the territory, speaking to my corpse as if I could still hear him.
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bespera
“This is where you first kiss me,” he would say, touching a tree trunk. “Where you promised to love me forever, even though I never deserved it.”
But my body remained still, preserved in perfect, eternal silence,
Through our bond, I felt his desperation growing with each passing day. Each failed attempt to reach me pushed him further from sanity,
The pack library became his second home. He spent hours there, surrounded by ancient books about resurrection and magic.
“There has to be a way,” he would mutter, flipping pages frantically. “There has to be something. Then one night, as he sat among piles of dusty tomes his hands found an ancient book bound in wolf hide.
“The Tale of the Moon–Blessed Alpha,” he read aloud, his voice shaking. “In which the Moon God herself granted an Alpha King the power to resurrect his beloved Luna…”
His hands trembled violently as he devoured the words. Through our bond, I felt desperate hope begin to bloom in his fractured mind.
I watched as he clutched the book to his chest, tears streaming down his face. He truly believed he had found a way to undo what his betrayal had caused.
He has completely gone mad, I coldly laughed, I don’t understand why, even though everything is over, I’m still bound by his side, is it to let me see his complete insanity?
