Filed To Story: Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)
“Didn’t what? Why were you up here yesterday?” Liam asks, motioning for me to come to him, but Peter clutched me tightly. “Don’t let him hurt me,I did nothing,” Peter begged while clutching my dress and arm, like I was his lifeline
“What’s going on?” Kyson asks through the link, sounding frantic
“I.. I don’t know Liam is accusing Peter,”
“Peter, accusing him of what?” but Liam’s booming voice makes me jump before I could answer. Trey growls at him behind me
“Answer me!” Liam commands, taking another step down. Liam’ s eyes go to Peter’s hands clutching onto me
“Liam, calm down; he is just a boy,” Trey says…
“And the boy will answer,” Liam growls back
“To bring lunch up and help Clarice with what you asked of her. I didn’t touch the clothes or anything in the room. Clarice wouldn’ t let me. She made me stand at the door while she passed me baskets,” Peter blurts out under the command unable to fight his aura any longer
“Why the same stairs?”
“Clarice said to clean ones where she could see me,” Peter blurts
“Clarice said to clean them?” Liam asks
“Well, not specifically these stairs. Just where she could see me if she left the kitchen. These are the closest steps,”
“So, why did you choose these steps?” Liam asks, stepping down another step toward him
“Liam! enough!” I tell him
“No. I was just thinking. And out of everyone that has been questioned, Peter never has been,” Liam says, his eyes darting to Peter holding me again, and then to the tool bucket on the step in front of him. The closer he got, the stronger the scent of liquor I could smell emanating off Liam. He was drunk
“He is a boy!” I tell him, outraged that he would take his drunk ramblings out on Peter. Peter looked petrified and his hands shook as he clutched me, tears trekking down his face
“I was a boy once too, My Queen. And I had already killed someone long before I was his age,” Liam says, his steps calculating as he took them one at a time. I glanced down at Peter, who growled when I heard the mind link open up. And Trey’s voice flitted through it
“My King, was Peter ever questioned?” Trey asks, and I tried to focus on my surroundings as Liam stalked down the steps toward Peter, and the savage gleam in his eyes frightened me when Peter whimpered
Prying Peter’s fi**gers off my dress, I stand and take a step up. I go halfway up the steps, blocking Liam from him
“Ah no. Why? Has something happened? And Azalea answer me, I am on my way,” Kyson growls and Liam reaches for me, to jerk me to his side when I felt a sharp pain in my side that stole the air from my lungs, before I heard Trey’s ear-piercing scream behind me. And it was like time slowed right down. I saw Liam’s hands reach for me, and his eyes widened but I staggered back, my hand going to my side when I felt the pain twist through my abdomen, my eyes going to my side to find a dagger in my flank and Peter’s hand holding the hilt, my hands soaked in my blood
gasp, choking on my breath that I couldn’t seem to catch, when a snarl tore out from behind me. “That’s for my mum!” Peter says, when I am slammed against the bannister. I tried to grip it to stay upright, but the entire thing gave way as my weight touched it. My scream stolen on the heart stopping realization that I was falling. My stomach plummets somewhere deep within me. I felt the blood drain from my face, turning me cold at the sensation. Just as Liam nearly impales himself trying to catch me, and Trey tackles Peter, who just stared vacantly at me as I grasped for something to hold and only grasping air
My body hit with a loud thud. Pain enveloped me, and I felt my head hit the stairs on the ground floor stairwell. The wooden railing crashed down on top of me, and I couldn’t move. I just stared at the ceiling and the floor above, where Trey had knocked out Peter
Liam jumped off the second floor after me, his feet hitting the ground only seconds later. But it was too late. I felt the warmness of my blood trickling down my neck, my head pounding and my back throbbed. The coppery taste of blood filled my mouth, and I tried to breathe around it, but only choked. It was like when you knock your foot when it has pins and needles, that strange sensation, yet it was my entire body that felt like that. My eyes felt like they were pulsating in my head to a rhythmic beat in my skull
My vision also throbbing and so were my surroundings. Liam, ! could see, was putting p**ssure on my side, and I could fuzzily see his l*ps moving fast as he screamed. Or I think he screamed, because I heard no sound leave him. No sound other than my heart beating in my skull
I was fading, my vision becoming tunneled and I couldn’t move, yet the oddest sensation warmed bet**en my legs, like I w*t myself. I had no idea why I felt that above all the pain. But for some reason; it was all I could focus on. Like that was the most important sensation above all the pain. My mind transfixed on the warmth leaving me when everything went black
Kyson POV
We had found a few things in the documents from the Alpha Dean’s pack, such as Mr. Crux’s name linking to multiple brothels in the state. It looked like he was helping traffic rogues because sizeable sums of money had been sent to Alpha Dean’ s accounts when they suddenly stopped abruptly a few years ago and enormous debts started accumulating. Debts from Crux’s casino
As we sifted through the boxes, we found other strange things that didn’t add up, which had me going down to the underground storage. Gannon and Dustin were pulling everything we had on Crux from the archives, and we set them on the huge wooden table in the storage room
“While we are down here, pull all the staff records for me,” I tell them and they move back to the storage boxes and start bringing them over, dropping them at my feet
I dig through the boxes looking for council records, anything really. “You two start on the staff files. Go as far back as 14 years when the Landeena’s were killed.”
“So before Azalea’s fourth birthday?” Dustin asks and I nod
“There has to be a reason someone is targeting her and it has to be someone on the castle grounds. Check all the guards, under oath or not. Also, all the cleaners, gardeners, everyone that has been on the payroll,” I tell them and they both start sifting through files
We had only been sorting through stuff for a few hours when Gannon pulled Trey’s file again, and another file with his medical records confirming everything he had told us. We really needed to come up with some sort of electronic filing system. This was ridiculous
It was a couple of hours later that I felt Azalea wake up. She told me she was going to play with the children, and I told her to take Trey with her
“Did you know Ester had spent time in the Landeena Kingdom?” Gannon asked me abruptly, making me look up as I closed the link
“What?” I asked, and he holds the file out to me
“A year. Her parents reported her as a runaway, and she was located in the Landeena Kingdom and she was granted the right to stay by Garret,” Gannon tells me
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