Chapter 272 – Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)

Filed To Story: Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)

“You can’t tell him. I barely know the man. You’re acting like I am about to run off with him.” I snapped, annoyed at the accusation in his tone. Liam turned on me instantly, and I backed up at the murderous look he gave me. My back hits the stone wall, and I gasp at his closeness.

“That is exactly what you will do. You will run off with your piece of shit mate and forget him. Just like she did. Then I will be left to pick up the pieces.” Liam snarled.

“He’s my mate,” I whisper, suddenly feeling tiny next to this man with the way he had me trapped and cornered. He reaches a hand up, and I flinch, but he only twirls a lock of my hair around his finger.

“Gannon loves you. Kade doesn’t. That man isn’t capable of love. I guess you’ll find that out the hard way,” he whispers before letting go and stepping back.

“What’s that supposed to mean, Liam!” I growl. He glares at my tone, and I didn’t mean for it to come out the way it did, but it was too late to take it back.

“Do the right thing, Abbie. You need to tell him. If you don’t, and I have to, I will skin your mate alive and make you watch. If you want to be with your mate, fine. But don’t lead Gannon along. You hurt him as she did? Not even Gannon will be able to save you from me.” he says, his tone of voice turning darker along with his eyes. Tears prick the corners of my eyes at his words.

I didn’t want to hurt Gannon. I loved him too, so why was this hard to decide?

“I don’t want to hurt Gannon,” I tell him.

“Then you’ll tell him or reject your mate. If you want to be with that twat, Gannon will understand. But if he finds out because he caught you or I had to tell him, it will destroy him. But know this, Abbie. Just like you and Ivy are forever bound together, so are Gannon and me. Nothing will come between us.” he says while stepping toward me again.

His canines slip out, and his claws extend from his fingertips as he grabs my face. His thumb brushes over my cheek, and I swallow, feeling more like prey than I ever had in my life.

“You hurt him, and he may forgive you,” he tells me while his hand moves to my throat, his fingers wrap around my throat, his claws grazing the back of my neck and making my skin prickle with goosebumps as he leans in so close his stubble brushes my cheek. –

“But I won’t. And I am not the sort of man you want to make an enemy of,” he whispers next to my ear.

A tear rolls down my cheek, and I nod before feeling his tongue move across my cheek, licking up the tear that brimmed and spilled over.

“So just keep that in mind. Like you and Ivy come together, so do Gannon and me. He is a good man, but i’ll tell you a little secret. I’M NOT,” he growls before pecking my cheek and walking off and leaving me feeling sick with fear,

I stand there petrified, watching him leave when the door across from where I stood opens up. The King walks out of his office and stops, stunned to see me standing there crying.

“Abbie?” the King asks, and I look at him. His eyes went to the end of the hall where Liam was before he turned toward the stairs and disappeared. The King sighs and pushes his door open wider, and nods toward it.

“Are you okay?” he asks, and I nod my head.

“I need to get back to my room,” I tell him, walking off.

“Abbie, is this over Kade being your mate?” The King calls out, and I stop, suddenly angered that he would dare mention mates when he has locked his own mate away and rejected her over who her mother was.

“Even if it is, you would be the last person I would ask advice from, especially when your mate is rotting in a stable like a damn farm animal.” I snarled before walking off. I heard his growl behind me, and I half expected him to order me out of the castle, but as I reached the stairs and looked back at him, he stood by the window, looking out at the stables. Good, I hope the bastard feels guilty.

Days later.

Every morning, I woke to candy on the end of my bed from Gannon. Ivy was staying in the King’s old quarters, and no one had been able to get close to her. Not even me. Clarice explained she was fretting for the King, and it turns she-wolves savage. However, because things have been so chaotic around here, I have hardly had a chance to see Gannon. However, he had been leaving candy and craft supplies in my room or his for me to find when I clean it. Which only made me feel more guilty when I found them each day.

This morning was no different when I found a bunch of roses on the end of my bed with chocolate. I pick them up, putting them in a vase on the windowsill before getting ready for work. Today, we were holding funerals for the rogues that were found dead, and I had to help Clarice in the kitchens to cater for it. Grabbing my uniform, I slip it on and move toward the door. Although the moment I step out the door, I find Liam waiting in the hall, leaning against Dustin’s doorframe.

“Gannon spent all afternoon looking for you, Abbie, while you were off with Kade. You still haven’t told him,” Liam states as I close my door.

“I haven’t had a chance because he has been busy,” I tell him, walking past him.

“Have you decided?” he asked, and I sighed; how could I decide when I barely know either of them really, yet I wasn’t sure I could reject Kade. The mate bond was stronger than I was ever told about. It made me crave my mate and filled me with loneliness when he was away.

“Kade is my mate, Liam. It is a blessing from the moon goddess,” I tell him, walking down the stairs.

“Not all mates are blessings. Kade doesn’t want you. He just knows by keeping you. It strengthens him,” he snaps, keeping up with me. I scoffed because it sounded ridiculous. Liam grabs my arm, stopping me.

“He is using you. How can you not see that?” he snaps.

“Using me?” I laugh. “I have nothing to offer him. He isn’t using me, Liam. You know nothing of our relationship.” Now Liam scoffs and folds his arms across his chest.

“So he told you has kids and a wife?” Liam asks, and I blink at him before getting angry. He would say that just because I want to try to make this work with my mate?

“You’re lying,” I growl.

“Ask him. To Kade, you are just another side piece with the added benefit that his wolf side will get stronger after having his fated mate.” Liam growls at me, and my hand moves before I even register what I did. My hand connects with his face that he would say such outrageous things about Kade when he has been nothing but nice to me.

The slap is loud, and I gulp when his head whips to the side before turning back to glare at me. “I will let that one slide since I know you are blinded by your bond, but I would not recommend hitting me again.” Liam snarls, stepping closer to me, when I hear Gannon’s voice.

“What’s going on here?” he asks, and I lift my head, looking to the top of the stairs to see Gannon walking down them. Liam arches an eyebrow at me before clicking his tongue. “I warned you,” Liam hisses at me, turning to speak to Gannon. Yet my hand reaches out, and I grip his wrist. He looks down at my hand before back looking at me.

“Tell him because I won’t lie if he asks me,” Liam says before walking off. My eyes dart to Gannon, who watched us as he came closer. He watches Liam leave, stopping next to me.

*Are you going to explain why you just slapped my friend?” he asked, gripping my hand that was trembling. He lifts it to his mouth, kissing my knuckles, and I pull my hand from his grip.

“Gannon, don’t. You won’t want to touch me after I tell you.” I tell him, feeling guilty and knowing I was holding off. I didn’t want to tell him because I wanted him to, but Kade was my mate.

My destined mate. Someone the moon goddess chose for me and I couldn’t throw that away. If I did for Gannon, and Gannon left me, I would have no one but Ivy. Kade told me he couldn’t leave me, that he didn’t want to, that he loved me, and he would always love me. So I had no choice but to go with the safer option.

“Tell me what?” he asks, looking the way Liam left. Yet how did I tell him? How could I tell him that Kade asked me to leave with him? Gannon turns back to me, and my heart felt torn. I wanted Gannon. I also wanted my mate.

He cups my face in his hands, and I shake my head, tears spilling down my cheeks. “Tell me, whatever it is. I can try to fix it. Did Liam do something?” he asks, and I shake my head.

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