He wants her back.
She wants her freedom.
She willingly died to get free. Only, death wasn't the end to her suffering. When she opened her eyes moments after her death, she was back to the moment it all began.
Her wedding day.
Killian began to whimper in my head, and my heart felt like it was breaking all over again.
The pain I felt when she rejected me might be the only thing that could ever come close to the pain I am feeling right now, watching the love of my life, the woman I desire more than anything, my mate and the only future I will accept, smiling under the arm of another man.
She is accepting him. Accepting his touch, his presence, his conversation, and I've been praying for the last several hours that she just accepts my apology.
A story about rebirth, and an Alpha's hardpressed journey to redemption.
This story contains some triggers: SA, language, violence, abuse
Elelira, forced by her uncle into a marriage alliance with the rumored monstrous alpha of the south, was surprised to find on her wedding day that he was actually her mate.
Due to a secret she and her late mother kept, he wouldn't feel the mate bond for two more years, until it was too late.
Elelira, having grown weary and worn down by her husband's mistreatment, builds a wall around her heart and on the day she turns 20, the day Lachlan can feel the bond, she rejects him before escaping into the sea.
Her freedom is short lived as her quest to find her real father takes her back to her abusive Uncle's pack, where she is captured and tortured until her death.
She hopes that is the end, but as soon as her eyes close, they open again and she is back at the beginning; the beginning of her suffering. She traveled back to the day of her wedding, and has to live through all that pain and torture again.
Or so she thinks.....
Lachlan was against the marriage to the conniving Alpha Wayne's niece, fearing he was being trapped and leashed, but he had no grounds to refuse since he was the one who needed the alliance after a long war with the clans of the North.
Elelira was like a temptress from hell, or so he thought. He desired her, but he thought that was just a trick from her uncle. No matter who or how many women he slept with, it was Elelira's face that haunted him relentlessly. He fought against the desire, holding out for the day he could annul the marriage and find his true fated mate.
By the time he realized it was her all along, it was too late.
To correct the mistakes of his past, he sacrificed greatly to get a second chance.
What he didn't expect, though, was for her to come back with all her memories of the future from the past as well. And because of the deal he struck to be given this chance, he can't reveal that he was the one that saved her.