Traded To The Lycan King

My neck throbs in pain as I frown at Ezrah. This is someone I trust, someone I considered to be a friend or at least friendly, even when the council refused to be that way with me. But Colette is right to question him and where his allegiance stands. Too much is happening, too much doesn't make sense and he might just be that missing piece.

Hybrid Lauren wasn't created on purpose. She was an accident, but who the hell put her back together enough for her body to heal? There is so much that doesn't make sense.

Things that go against the natural law or things we understand as supernatural beings. My head hurts and a wave of exhaustion floats over me, lingering just out of reach to shoo away or catch and nap off.

"You are choosing our side?" Colette asks Ezrah, who looks sad, but he nods in agreement.

"Yes,"

"Why?" she retorts, her eyes narrowed as she waits for the truth.

"Fae have special gifts, and jobs we take seriously," he explains.

"I already know that." She grits out and he frowns.

"And you know that I have the ability to move very fast, to deliver messages and talk my way out of situations."

"Not doing a very good job of talking yourself out of this one," she snorts, and he shakes his head in disbelief.

“Luna, I am trying very hard to be cordial."

I sigh, a heavy exhale as I punch the bridge of my nose.

"We don't need cordial, we need honesty." I tell him and he nods solemnly.

"I know." he paces over to a chair and plops down, looking torn. "This has been my life for hundreds of years, this is what people with my abilities do. To share with you secrets I have been sworn to protect is breaking everything I know and believe. I will have no family after this."

Colette softens in her anger and she frowns before she reaches out and takes my hand in hers.

"Ezrah, if you choose to stay out of matters, it is likely you will have no family at all. I don't think Giselle will stop with just me. She has Lily, and she had Lauren. Who knows who else she has on her side that is coming to what? Capture me? Make use of me elsewhere?"

is no one else," He says and I furrow my brows, for the first time unsure if I trust

I say simply, and his brows lift in slight

is not someone I know, or I have at least not yet been made aware of who it might

suspicion now. What if Ezrah is lying or what

since everything

with mine as we watch his jaw tighten and his

"Yes."

Lily has control over you, like the others?" Colette asks, and he looks intrigued by the idea before shaking

neutral and due to the nature of my travels, I would be too far from her to be effective," he admits. "That and I

you do have some honor,"

and at every turn, when I felt something was amiss, I would do my best to leave hints or clues to help you with my abilities." He says,

throat, looking over at Colette as she meets my eyes. Her emotions flow freely between us, hers melding with mine as we make these decisions together. She can feel the deep-seated trust I have for the fae before

you sure you wish to choose

side as many of my kind have been forced to do." His demeanor changes, growing more frustrated with the situation the more he talks about what happened to him out

over toward him, her head tilting as she assesses Ezrah before she reaches out and waits for his

committing to fighting with us. Handshakes are binding, like

it. Colette smiles a sly smile, then

the war." She

says

the sun grows lower in the sky. I try to shoot up from my bed, but my legs give out like wet noodles

setting me on the side of the bed as I breathe through the pain that feels like a steel sponge dragging through the insides of my veins. Colette's touch helps to ease it slightly,

happening to me?" I

he says, as if that makes total sense and

care to explain?" Colette asks, her

elket

speed of light. I can bend air and light to my will, in only certain instances. In this case, I forced it through your veins to kill the vampire...genes?... cells? Whatever

snap my head up, meeting his

is still here?" I ask him, and