The Temptation of Sin And The Lycan Princess

Chapter 49

Race Against Time

ROYCE.

I stare at her, processing her words.

There’s no way, I mean, how can that even be possible? If she is alive, then where is she? Why isn’t she here?

“Lottie… Why do you say that?” I ask her quietly.

She looks down. “Trust me, Royce, I know she is. I heard them speak of it with my own ears.” She mumbles, her heart thumping as if fearing getting into trouble.

“Who?” I ask, my own heart racing. “She was stillborn. There’s got to be a misunderstanding.”

“No Royce, she was meant to be… offed.”

Offed.

I know what she means, and I wait as she struggles to keep calm.

My own emotions are havoc as I try not to let her see it as I wait for her to continue when she’s ready.

“How do you know?” I ask, trying to remain. calm.

“I snuck out one day to go to the packhouse, and then when I was trying to get back home, I overheard Beta Quade and Delta Harry talking in his office. Beta Quade said he couldn’t do it, so he instead commanded an omega to leave the pack and gave him money to move somewhere far away so Dad would feel a pack link break that night and think it was our sister, of course, he didn’t keep a count of everyone and so… Beta put her in a human orphanage and told Dad he’d done the job.”

It feels as if someone just stabbed me in the throat. I feel as if I’m choking.

Dad did that…

“And why- why was he telling Harry now?” I ask, trying to understand it but the fact that Dad actually tried to have his own daughter killed.

A baby… fuck…

“He said he recently found out she was taken from the orphanage. He said that he found out that that orphanage is linked to some powerful Alpha and he’s scared Dad will figure it out if he ever sees her. But he’s unable to get any further details about her, and he doesn’t even know if she still goes by the name he gave her or if she’s under a new identity.

“Alright… I’ll talk to the Beta. If she’s out there, we’ll find her.” I reply quietly as we drive through the small town at the edge of the woods where Skyla lives.

The revelation has my head spinning. Would she even want to know us? Would we be ruining her peace, to tell her that her father wanted her dead?

I mean, I have no reason to tell Dad, and I never will, but Mom, does she know her daughter is alive? No, she doesn’t, because I’ve seen her remember her pain.

Mom has one tattoo, a tiny one beneath her wedding ring. Victoria with a little heart. Her charity foundation is the Victoria Trust. She’s never forgotten her. What would she do if she learned what dad has done?

How do I cope with the fact that he tried to kill his own child?

Experiments and control… I dealt with it all, but this?

The hurt and shock I feel are beginning to change to a burning anger.

Charlotte sighs.

“That could have been me. If I wasn’t good enough, he would have tried to kill me too… and what if it wasn’t Beta Quade… what if he gave her to someone who would have actually killed her?” She takes a shuddering breath. “I’ve considered running away, Royce. I’m sick of the cage I live in.”

“I’m going to have to step it up. You’re right, this can’t continue. He as good as killed his own daughter. He isn’t worthy of

on the king’s council, nor the head

you challenge him and

about to reply when a voice rips

woods bordering the Luminaria Pack. There should be a car parked on the

Skyla?

Her voice is strained.

“Fuck!” I curse.

only do that if

I swerve the car left,

is hammering down on the car, but it

in danger.” I

press my foot down on the gas, driving at a dangerous speed. It doesn’t take long before I spot Skyla’s car, but it’s the mutilated body on the ground that makes my

drops, until I notice the long

It’s not her…

Thank the goddess!

I know who did this –

I can’t leave her here alone. ” Let’s

the trunk, I grab two swords, tossing one to Charlotte, who catches

command, my eyes flashing as

better be ok, what the hell even

Please be ok.

off her cousins? I should have done that. Why is she

Who was that girl?

hoping

Please fucking be ok.

relief

both look down at the second dead body that lies there, frothing at the mouth,

one died from

More casualties…

looks like. she’s alone in the middle of all these broken trees, but I

her as an estimate, I send a bolt of lightning at it, but to my horror, I see Skyla barrel downwards just as I burst into the opening. One moment she’s in the air, the monster hissing viciously, and

He fucking ate her.

but I can now see bits of blood that give away his position and his one

Damn Sky’s done damage.

at it, lightning crackles through my hand and wraps around my blade

Charlotte shouts in panic, but the only thing I care about is getting my Lil

I can hear her heartbeat. It’s faint, but

a Lycan, she can’t

to give me leverage before I raise my sword, and

I feel the

comes into view as it drops

Dead.

turn to see a bloody Skyla roll

fuck she’s

Time

I drop my sword and rush to

Fuck! Charlotte, call Alejandro

me as the rain hammers down on her, washing

runs over as I take my phone out of

body. The

with it, died