Traded To The Lycan King

Ezrah brought her here? I wonder as I whirl around, searching the trees and shoreline for the messenger who is always everywhere, always in everyone's business.

Caspian stands with Zale, the two of them carrying my enormous lycan mate up onto a less sandy part of the beach. Ezrah will have to wait. Right now, I need to be sure Merikh will be okay.

I rush toward them, sliding a glance back at Lauren as she tries to creep out, only to hiss and cry harder. Serves the evil vampire right for everything she has done and continues to do.

Strange how easy it was to defeat her when everything is all said and done, though. I sort of expected more, certainly something more than the sobbing mess cowering under a rock.

"How is he?" I call out, Calvin humming as he moves efficiently from wound to wound, seemingly more interested in one from the next.

My nails find themselves trapped between the nervous pressure of my teeth as I nibble on them, my anxious nerves only growing bigger with every passing bout of silence.

"Calvin," I growl out. He snaps his surprised eyes up to me, blinking as if he hadn't even noticed I arrived.

"I am assessing him," He says back, but his eyes are telling me more than his lips.

Vampire bites are meant to kill. That's the whole point of them. To feed or to create a new vampire toy. But what happens to a lycan king who is bitten? Not fed upon and not intended to create? Does he live? Does he suffer?

These are the questions plaguing my mind that no one seems able to answer right now, right when I need them. My mom moves close to me, entwining my hand in hers as she tugs me close, and I rest my head on her shoulder. It is incredibly strange how quickly the mother-daughter bond came back.

Though I sort of attribute that to the fact that all this time in the water has helped me remember a lot from my past. Not everything, but enough of my life with her and even Caspian before I was hunted.

Also, trauma bonding is a real thing, and that definitely happened with mom on more than one occasion, so there is that.

"He will be okay," she assures me with a gentle smile.

"We do not know that," Zale says bluntly and I glare at him as he frowns and shrugs.

"I am only speaking the truth."

well maybe don't?" My mom

comes up to my other side, sighing heavily as

to fight her."

point," I

chooses not to respond, only maintaining a forward-looking gaze as if she is biting her tongue. It is clear that she has much to say, but either refuses to in front of dad or she doesn't want me to

you to explain everything all over again." I

She sighs. "She said she was

screams and

onto his ass. He scrambles to stand, reaching out to grab Merikh who tries to stand, only to sway

to scan the area, pulling me as close as

hold his face still so he can focus on

his frantic fear drips away to a look of sheer pain. I see the flecks of green in his iris' not his normal shade of emerald but the same distorted rotten

his name and he bumbles over to

see who wins

and see." I growl at him, unable to control the rage brewing in my chest. "What can I do?" I

looking distraught. "I am sorry Luna, but I just...this is out of my

drunk, unable to focus and remain steady as he

struggling to keep the quiver from my voice. "I am going to

head down to meet mine and nuzzle my nose against his, taking a deep inhale

to talk to my dad for a minute."

him and not me," he pouts. "I

I miss you, too. I

groans, rolling

my parents, dragging them aside and looking them in the

me there is something water can do to heal him, or maybe cleanse his blood?" I ask, placing both hands on my head

coming, the one where I become a sobbing mess and am of no use to anyone. Merikh is the stable one, the