Mated To The Lycan King

Chapter 23

Everest POV

This woman showed up out of no where with a child clinging to her body. She looked over tired and way too stressed but also determined at the same time. She didn’t look as if she was a day older than maybe twenty.

When we walked into the room we motioned for her to sit. She complied and sat the young child in her lap. The little girl had her thumb in her mouth and I am assuming her favorite blanket with her.

“Please, go ahead with information on my brother, Miranda.” King Brent told her.

“Well, you see, I wasn’t expecting to run into both of you here, but I am glad you did. You know my brother, Garrison.” She paused and waited for King Brent to nod and continued “Well, he got into debt with your brother, Prince Dexter. I don’t know what he did or how or anything I just know he wasn’t able to repay whatever it was to bring him out of it.” She paused and I saw Brent shake his head and lean forward with a hand over his face.

She looked nervously over to me and began talking again. “Well your brother murdered mine and

took my neice.” She looked down at the child for a moment and tears were threatening to spill over. “He

took her and came after me. After a man beat me he threatened to kill her if I didn’t do as he said. He said my brother owed a significant debt and then he gave me his head.”

Tears now freely streamed down her face as she talked, hugging the child tightly to her. “I did as he told me for her, her life and for that I am sorry. Please spare her, even if you have to kill me. I helped him

with your mate I didn’t know what else to do. You were in the hospital and he was in command. I didn’t know what to do.”

I stood, rage filling me that this witch helped that bastard. “What. Did. You. Do?!” I yelled.

“I gave him potion and a herbal blend to mask her scent and suppress the Lycan inside of her. He said I was finished and we could live in peace but he just recently contacted me. Wanted my help again and I refused him and he threatened her life and mine.” She still had tears streaming down her face.

I sat down and realized she had no choice in the matter and yes what she done is technically punishable by death. Rules could be bent and I sighed. “Miranda, shh.” My voice was quiet and soft. “You’re

safe here, she is safe here. You have nothing to fear here.”

She sniffed and nodded “Thank you, thank you.” She kissed the top of the child’s head. “There were others involved. A woman named Sarah, a wolf named Ryder, and he has many other people that are helping him. Also, when he threatened me this last time it was so I could make a weaker spell. The original one was supposedly making her sick and she collapsed and has a concussion. He was wanting it so they could move locations.”

“Thank you. We will pay for your room and if you would like, travel with us and our warriors. If you

want to help us out it would be welcomed.” King Brent offered her.

“Thank you King Brent, I will gladly and proudly offer any assistance to either of you if and when you need it.” She stood “If you would excuse us, I need to get her some food and settled into our room.”

“Of course.” I said.

“Thank you both, for understanding, letting me help, the room… Everything.” She said and smiled to us both before leaving.

I leaned my head back to rest on the wall and sighed loudly. “You okay? I know that must have not been easy to do. Especially after what she confessed to doing.”

Brent stood and walked over to the window.

“Yeah. My Lycan wanted to rage when she said it but quickly realized she had no other option.” ||

said.

“Her brother was a good guy too. He worked for the Castle and helped out the less fortunate. I don’t

know what my brother had on him but it must of either been big or he lied to manipulate her. That I very

well wouldn’t put past him to do.” He was watching her, I could tell. He turned to look at me “Was the

other information she gave you consistent with the previous information?”

“It was damn near the same. Which means the woman who was struck and knocked out was a part of

it all along.” I sighed and shook my head. I was disgusted in myself for choosing someone so terrible to fool around with but she was there and I needed a release. Still was no excuse, my father was right. She

was a bad egg.

I looked up at Brent “So about the plan, what do you think we should do?”

He nodded “Whatever we do we need to do it quickly, he knows something is up and wants to change

locations on us.”

“We need to be there by tomorrow night. Let me reach out to my warriors who were to meet us.” / stepped out of the room and made the few phone calls needed. They will all be here early tomorrow

morning. Maybe even before the sun rises. Then we can give them a few hours rest and move out

tomorrow afternoon. My men will be tired but they will be fine. A two hour nap for a wolf is like a 4 hour nap to a human.

I walked back in and filled in Brent. We then both left to fill in the members who were with us Claire and Amber were chit-chatting away over future plans for Avalynn and it made me smile. Their positive outlook shined brightly over the future and I was looking forward to putting this in the past.

The next few hours were busy with strategy plans and a draw up of the land. We knew he had others there, hiding out to watch for anything incoming. We wanted to make sure that every possible exit area was covered. Lucky enough for us we had a bit of inside help on where wolves or other Lycans would be stationed. The wolves were first, of course because he had no care to their life. He knew if anything was to happen they would be easily wiped out. Some King he would of been. He seemed to discard lives that weren’t as strong as him, it made me sick.

>Avalynn POV

I sat up in the bed as I was the only one in my room and looked around. I slept a few hours and by the

looks of things it was still early morning, or just extra cloudy outside. I couldn’t tell honestly. I looked at

my hands before using them to smooth my hair down.

I felt something inside my mind pushing. It felt like a strong force and I smiled. It has been a full day since I smacked my head when I faked my collapse. It worked out in the long run, because if that was Charlotte trying to push through I was about to be a force to be reckoned with. I smiled to myself when a soft knock came at the door.

Islouched in the bed “Come in?” I answered softly.

Dexter walked through the door with a smile. I forced a smile back to him. “How are you feeling?”

“I still have a headache but I guess a little better?” I lied, I felt perfectly fine. I just was just trying to stall him from moving.

“I am glad you’re feeling better. Let’s get you a shower and breakfast and then we will see how you’re

feeling after?” He demanded and I nodded. I looked at him, he looked like he hadn’t slept much and that made me smile inwardly. He is worried and he should be.

I watched as he stood up and looked around my room before looking at me again. He seemed as if he wanted to say something but instead, he turned on his heel and walked to the door.”Take your shower |

will see you in an hour or so.” He shut the door behind him.

I could go for a nice extra hot shower. I stood and made my way to the bathroom and turned on the water. I looked at my wild hair and sighed. This was definitely going to need washed a few times. I could tell there was dried blood stuck to my scalp and hair. When the water was at my desired temp I stepped in and washed myself. I took my time in there and enjoyed the water running over my body.

I washed every square inch of my body and got out. I ran a brush through my hair and put lotion on my skin. I got myself ready and walked back into the bedroom. I sat down in the big comfy chair and a few

minutes later a knock came.

“Come in.” I said as I looked through a magazine. / Content bel0ngs to Nôvel(D)r/a/ma.Org.

Dexter entered with some fresh fruit, an unopened box of cereal, unopened small carton of milk and toast. He sat it down in front of me. “Sorry a lot of the things we had on hand have went bad unexpectedly. Apparent one of our large walk in refrigerators went bad. Of course that one house most of our food.”

I knew he was lying but I knew why. Everything in there had the special herbal blend mixed in from the witch. Seeing how he believes it made me sick he wasn’t about to give it to me.

“Thats fine, this is perfect. Thank you very much.” I smiled knowing I had been successful. I prepped my cereal and opened up a banana, slicing it into my cereal. I cut up a few strawberries and added in a few blueberries to a separate bowl. I noticed he hadn’t left and made himself comfortable and after I took my first bite, chewing, and swallowing I asked him “So, what have I missed? Anything exciting?”

He smiled and shook his head. “You haven’t missed much, a witch is threatening your life. We are

seeking her out, well hunting her really.”

“Oh? Why my life?” I asked him. “Uh, because you’re the missing key.” He said. “Missing key?”I wondered what that meant as he only nodded at me.

Is that a reason why my family wanted to protect me or was he lying to me. Probably lying because knew the witch didn’t want to kill me so I pushed the matter.

“How amla missing key? What does that mean?” I raised my brow.

“It means that when you become Queen, you become the Queen of all things. All things from vampires, wolves, lycans, and witches.” He was looking at me.

“Oh. I have never heard of that. No one’s told me.” I responded.

“Thats because a rival Lycan clan took out your family when you were just a baby.” He looked away for a moment. “Enough of that though. You will learn more I do not want to tire you out when you just woke up. We will be leaving tonight and moving further south. I want you to be as safe as possible. Seeing how you are moving about and your appetite seems to be back I would assume its safe to say you can travel.” He smiled.

“But I do want to know more about what you said, please?” I wanted to know if it was true or not. If it

was I wanted to know more.

“Baby girl, you will be the Queen of all things when you are ready. The Goddess has sent me a vision and it shall be made true. But that is enough for now, please its for your own safety to not stress your mind

too much.” He smiled at me.

“He’s a good liar.” A very soft and weak voice drifted through my mind.