Chapter 101 - Falling for the Last Lycan Novel

“Last I heard, someone spotted him around the Three Deadly Ways. After that, no one had seen him again.”

Dacre grabbed the wine bottle from Luca’s hand and finished the liquid. He hurtled the bottle across the room and it shattered when it hit the wall. Anger rolled off his being and this forced Luca to take two steps back. The royal gamma lowered his head.

“Call Rose here!”

Luca didn’t need to be told twice, he went to get Rose and inform her about the king’s current condition, just a head up, so she knew what she would face.

“Don’t worry, I will be fine,” she said calmly and thanked him for the warning.

Once she entered the room, Rose could see the shattered bottle. The strong smell of alcohol immediately assaulted her senses.

Dacre had been like this for days and it was Rose, who handled everything for him. He was so close to trust her with everything, or probably because he didn’t have space to care about anything else.

Rose still didn’t know what caused this, but she was more than willing to make the beset out of this situation.

“Your majesty,” Rose greeted Dacre calmly, she walked toward the drunk king gracefully. Dacre was standing in front of his desk, his arms crossed and his eyes fixed on her. Rose took this opportunity, she walked so close and only stopped when her breasts ghostly touched his arms. She looked up and gave him her innocent look. “Do you call me?”

Veins bulged on Dacre’s neck, his gaze hardened, as he devoured the woman before his eyes, for a moment, everything went still and Rose waited for what he was going to do. She was very patient, waiting for the king to make a move.

She treated this as if she was approaching an angry, wounded beast. She needed him to come to her first and that was what Dacre did.

Abruptly, Dacre grabbed Rose’s face and leaned over, which made Rose thinking he was going to kiss her. She closed her eyes and waited, but she could only feel his face was so close to her, not his lips on her.

Eventually, Rose opened her eyes, she looked at him with bewilderment and took the initiative to kiss him first, but Dacre tilted his head to avoid it.

“Your majesty…” Rose’s voice was very sweet, like sugar. She touched Dacre’s hand that cupped her face and kissed his palm instead. “I know you are in so much pain. Share the pain with me… I am willing to do anything to soothe your pain, my king…”

They were dangerously close, Rose even pressed her body against him right now, completely leaning against his chest and stared at Dacre through her long lashes with need.

She tried again, this time she tiptoed, but for the second time, Dacre avoided her attempt.

“You are not him,” Dacre said quietly, darkly, as if the sight of Rose disappointed him.

“Him?”

Zuri curled herself against Khaos’s chest with one of her legs tangled with his under the blanket and the other poked out. Her long, black hair spread on the pillow and her lips were slightly ajar, as she snored softly.

After their meeting, Zuri was too exhausted to stay awake and fall asleep almost immediately. She made an excellent plan to get the golden stamp and right now, she deserved all the rest she needed.

Khaos put his hand on her hips and could feel a little bit of meat there. She was still skinny, he was still able to feel her protruding bones, but at the very least, she put on a little bit weight, instead of losing it.

[Khaos, I need you to come out for a while,] Bryden mindlinked him and the alpha carefully entangled himself from her.

But, Zuri was startled, she was awake and looked at him sleepily.

“Sleep, I will be right outside the door, there is something I need to discuss with Bryden.” Khaos caressed her head and kissed her cheek.

Zuri made a cute noise and closed her eyes again, but through the mate bond, Khaos could feel her annoyance toward the beta. He regarded her with another kiss on the lips before he went out and meet with Bryden.

“What is it?” Khaos closed the door behind him. The corridor was empty, thus they could talk freely.

“We know what happened to our man in the palace.” Bryden scrunched his nose. “He was caught. He is in the prison now.”

“Did Dacre know? He is too calm for someone, who knew about it.”

Bryden shook his head. “No. He was not caught because they knew he is one of our men, but because he was caught having sex with the queen. It was the royal beta Leonard, who saw them.”

Hearing that, the alpha narrowed his eyes and Bryden continued with the explanation.

“He is in trouble for different problem. I don’t think he said anything about us. I think it’s a poor judgment in his part coupled with bad luck.” Bryden studied Khaos’s expression, but decided he didn’t know what he was thinking right now. “What are you going to do now?”

“Send someone to kill him.”

He needed to be silenced before he said anything. It was not poor judgment or bad luck. Killian had crossed the line and he got his emotions involved in his mission.

“Are you sure?” Bryden thought Khaos was making a rash decision. “We have put a lot of effort to put him there. He is in crucial position. We can lose a lot of information if we lost him.”

However, Khaos disagreed. “We have lost him.” Not because they caught Killian, but because his heart was not with them anymore, his loyalty was questionable. He had warned Killian about this since the beginning, he needed to stop when he got confused, but he was confused and didn’t want to stop.

Killian knew too much for someone, whose loyalty was not with them.

“Kill him.” This was a direct order. The order was clear and left no room for negotiation, which made Bryden nodded.

“Okay.” Bryden was going to arrange that. “Rhett has returned, he is in his room. Do you want me to call him here?”

Khaos thought about it for a while. “No. I will go there.” Khaos then opened the door behind him. “Stay inside and be quiet. Don’t wake her up.”

“I will stay outside.” Bryden didn’t want to stay inside the bedroom with Zuri. He could guard her from here.

“There is a window and balcony. Stay inside and stay away from her.”

Khaos was not going to be fooled twice. It happened once and if it happened again for the second time under his nose, he might be the stupidest lycan alive.

Finally, Bryden reluctantly entered the room. He didn’t venture further inside, as long as he could see Zuri, he stayed in his position until Khaos returned. The alpha was a little bit paranoid after the first kidnap.

***

Dacre pushed Rose away from him. His eyes were bloodshot red, he was livid, mad even and when he spoke, it was not like his voice. It held so much hatred and pain.

“Leave.”

Rose stumbled back when Dacre pushed her away, she clutched her chest and looked at him with her teary eyes, but Dacre had rummaged the cabinet in order to look for another wine.

Knowing this wouldn’t be the right time, Rose turned around and left the room. Once she was outside, she wiped her tears and her expression turned cold.

“Him?” she muttered to herself. She could understand if what he mistook her for her sister, but who was ‘him’ that he meant?

Rose was sure she heard it right.

He said ‘him’ not ‘her’.

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