Reborn As Cursed Alpha's Mate-Chapter 75: Heart To Heart With Lana

The door closed and Lana took a tentative look around the room. The shredded pieces of the pink gown were strewn from the bedding to the floor and even on the low table.

She internally smiled, slightly glad that they were able to share an intimate moment. She made her way inside the bath area and found Cassandra sleeping peacefully in the bathtub. Her head rested in the block made for the neck and head position. She slowly removed the towel from her body and called out to her Luna.

Cassandra awakened to Lana’s soft voice calling her. The burning sensation that had earlier been crawling over her body and liquefying her core had dulled out to a low itch.

"Nissa! How are you feeling?" Lana gently asked as Cassandra’s eyes opened, and she saw her pouring a purple liquid into the cold water her body had been submerged in.

Her brain regained consciousness and the realisation of being naked hit her. Instantly, she wrapped her arms around her breasts, and her legs clenched shut. Her cheeks were tinted pink from the embarrassment.

"I—uh..." Lana smiled at her Luna’s awkwardness.

"Relax! I have seen enough unclothed bodies to consider this normal. Especially for us shifters." Lana placed the empty vial back in the tray and used her hand to mix the purple liquid with the water.

"What happened to me?" Cassandra apprehensively asked, still unclear why she felt like her body was on fire.

The thoughts of Siroos and what they had done surfaced in Cassandra’s brain and she guiltily glanced here and there.

Was he still here? Lurking? Watching her from some shadow? Ready to pounce on her again and devour her raw.

"It’s called heat. When female shifters are marked by their mates or five days after their lunar cycles, they experience this itch to mate. As their bodies are most fertile in that period, the chances of falling pregnant are very high. This is Hycandria extract, it helps abate the heat in females, making them less susceptible to mate. It will calm you down," Lana explained, cupping some water and pouring it on Cassandra’s body slowly.

The muddled thoughts began to untangle as the toned-down extract began to take effect. The thoughts of Siroos and his artistic tongue.

The thoughts of him ravishing her body with purely his gaze.

The thoughts of him kissing her with wild ferocity and leaving her breathless.

Her heartbeat went berserk again as embarrassment spread its wings and enveloped her in its fold.

This was not right.

She was supposed to be mad at him, not pushing her inner folds into his mouth.

What had they done?

How shamelessly she had asked him to sate her?

Where was her brain?

What if they had slipped and did the act?

So many thoughts began to circulate in her brain like a cyclone of guilt.

And she hid her face in her hands as the tears of shame leaked out. She couldn’t understand what was wrong with her.

She wished to hate him for being a manipulative asshole and yet her body craved him like a life saving drug.

Was she any different from the moth that flies into the fire and burns its wings?

"Nissa! What’s wrong?" Lana concernedly asked, seeing her softly cry. She understood the harsh life of her Nissa but did she understand the inner battles she was fighting or will have to for the rest of her life.

Her hand gently rubbed Cassandra’s shoulder. Hoping to ease whatever emotions gripped her.

"Is this how my life is going to be? Bathing in some liquid to keep my heat down? I had wished to be normal but..." her voice trailed as she hiccupped.

"Oh! Nissa, I am so sorry that you have to go through this life. It’s unfair to you. But our Alpha is a very upright man. Give him a chance, he will never betray your trust. He will be by your side every step of the way," Lana’s gentle words didn’t ease Cassandra’s heart but she knew she had to be strong.

Her emotions were all over the place after this marking ritual. Her brain seemed to have been messed up from some biological imbalance that male had imbued in her.

Cassandra removed her hands and wiped her tears.

"You must think I am so selfish. Thinking only about myself when the curse has kept you barren. I apologise, usually I am not such an emotional wreck."

"There is nothing to apologise for, Nissa. It’s natural to want intimacy with your mate and have kids. That’s what these rituals are all about. The gods are cruel, especially to someone as innocent as you and as just as our Alpha." Lana continued to comfort Cassandra and bathe her whole body with the water and Hycandria mixture.

"I hope you are blessed with a child soon, Lana," Cassandra stated, trying to smile through her pain.

"And I wish this curse will be lifted from you and our Alpha as well. So both of you can have children as well," Lana answered, understanding Cassandra’s pain and regrets.

"You are so kind to me. You remind me of my sister Lotus. I wish to write her a letter. Is there a way to deliver it from here to my kingdom?" Cassandra asked, sitting up straight in the bathtub.

"Yes! We use hawks to deliver letters. You just need to give it a small scent of the person it needs to deliver it too and it will take your message straight to them. Write the letter, I will send it." Lana grabbed a dry towel from the side, ready to help Cassandra out. Her heat had been snubbed for now.

"Thank you! Lana, I appreciate it." Cassandra slowly stood up. The water sloshed all around her and dripped from her wet body. Lana wrapped it around Cassandra and helped her out.

Heading back to the chamber, the heat seemed to have returned to her body seeing the embarrassing sight of their shenanigans spread all around it in the form of the shreds of her clothes.

’Swallow me ground,’ she murmed to herself.

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