Chapter 174 – Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)

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

“What year was this?”

“The year before Azalea was taken. Says she left a month before the attack after a fallout with Queen Tatiana,” Gannon says and I fl**k through the files. I read it thinking it was odd, because why would she go there and return a year later?

Yet we found nothing else and she started working here two years later. I knew her grandparents. They worked for my father, but I hadn’t seen them in years

So when her grandfather called me asking for a job for her, 1 gave her one. Her parents were very strict people apparently, and she spent most of her childhood being raised by her grandparents. I am pretty sure that was where she was living again. I tried to pick my brain about why she had an odd : . relationship with her parents, trying to remember what their falling out was for, but I didn’t really involve myself with her

I felt the mind link open up moments later and Azalea called me through the link, only to cut it off like she had dropped it when Trey opens it up

“My King, have you looked into Peter?” Trey asks and I open the link to her to try to get a hold of her

“No. Why? And Azalea, b****y answer me!” | snarl as my eyes roam over another of Ester’s files, and I was only half-listening to what Azalea was saying when I remembered something and started fl**king through the files. Trey mentioning Peter while going over Ester’s files made me remember something about her having a brother. I knew she had an estranged relationship with her parents since they had adopted Peter! Peter! My eyes widened in realization

“It’s Peter!” I growled when Azalea screamed through the link, and I raced to get to her. My heart hammering in my ch*st

Dustin and Gannon were chasing after me and I skidded across the floors as I smashed out of the cellar, my shoulder smashing against the doors, and into the kitchen’s pantry before I raced out of the kitchen. I lost my footing as I twisted to head for the stairs at the same time. I heard someone scream

My heart felt like it stopped when I saw a figure shoved off the staircase and I registered that figure was Azalea. Her arms flailed about just as the entire banister railing came down after her. My feet tried to get friction on the floor just as Gannon and Dustin burst out of the kitchen doors. I raced to catch her when Liam jumped after her. Her body hit the stairs with a thud before I could reach her

I froze and blinked in shock. I was too late. Trey tosses Peter into the wall and his body falls limply on the steps. All I could do was stare in shock as Liam turned his head, screaming for help, his hands p**ssed down on the knife in her side. Azalea chokes, blood spurting out her mouth and dribbling down her chin, ripping me from my shock when I see Gannon and Dustin trying to move but are both unable; I race to Liam’s side as her eyes roll in the back of her and I move to her. I grip her face

“Azalea!” I choked as she passed out

“Get a doctor!” | scream the order and Gannon and Dustin rush off

“Stay with me. Stay with me, Love,” I tell her when I feel my knees warm, making me glance down to see her dress turning red. Blood pooling and running down the steps from bet**en her legs

“No. No, no, no. NO!” I panicked, sliding my arms under her before I take off running toward the doors. I clutch her to me and Liam races ahead, shoving doors open and screaming for the guards to open the gates

Blood coated my arms from her head and from it gushing out bet**en her legs, my clothes becoming drenched as I ran down the bitumen road shifting while running. My ears picked up the heart beating inside her starting to slow, but she was still much too early for any life to be born and viable

My legs falter when I hear it stop, and her pulse weakens. Seeing the doctor’s surgery ahead, Lycans looked around shocked, as the doctor burst out his surgery doors with his gear before spotting us and his mouth fell open. The next second, he raced back toward the doors, forcing them open and screaming, at his nurses to get a gurney

Moving through the old brick building, the nurses rush out and I place her down, and Doc sets his bag on it before rushing off with her and I go to follow when Liam’s hand grips my shoulder

“You’ll just get in the way,” Liam says, but I could heal her. I was about to say that when Liam spoke, seeming to know what I was going to say

“Some things can’t be healed, my King. Let Doc work,” Liam says and moments later, Damian burst through the surgery doors. He looks at me, his eyes then moving to Liam’s hand holding my shoulder

“Come on, let’s wait outside. There is nothing you can do right now,” Damian says, and I shake my head

“Come on. Come have a smoke,” Liam says, pushing me toward the doors, and am forced to take my eyes away from where Doc took her through the double doors to the day surgery area. Liam pushes me out the doors, nudging me and I reluctantly step outside, and he shoves his smoke packet in my hand, yet I don’t light one when he pulls two from the packet and lights them, keeping one for himself and passing me the other

“Azalea will be okay,” Liam says, blowing smoke into the air. “She is tougher than she looks,” he says

“The baby?” I ask him. Neither of them says anything. Even though I knew that if she was alright, the baby wasn’t going to be. Which made me wonder if Azalea would be alright after all

The doctor confirmed that when he stepped out the doors twenty minutes later. He tugs his gloves off

“Azalea?” | asked

“Alive. She is still unconscious. I stitched her up. The bleeding stopped, but you could probably help that healing process,” Doc says, and I nod

“Our baby?” I ask, grasping on to any form of hope

“I’m sorry, My King. The fetus didn’t make it,” he tells me. Fetus. Thated the way he said it, but she wasn’t quite near her second trimester yet. My legs buckled under me, and I hit the ground hard at his words. My heart sank and my stomach dropped at the information

I failed her! Peter was a child and the last person I would have suspected. I failed her, and it cost us our baby and nearly her life! How do I tell her that?

“Azalea needs you, Kyson. Get up,” Damian says

“We lost the baby,” I murmured. Trying to wr*p my head around everything

“I know, but if you don’t get up and get in there, you may lose her, too. Now up,” Damian says, gripping my arm and Liam grabs the other; they haul me to my feet

“One foot in front of the other. Come on, big fella. Your Queen needs you. Break later, not in front of her,” Liam says, pushing me towards the doors

Kyson POV

It took hours for her to wake up, and Damian went back to the castle to retrieve some clothes, so I wasn’t walking around in just a hospital gown. I had just walked back into the room to find that she was sitting up. I felt nothing through the bond to tell me she had woken, and I only stepped out a minute to change quickly. As she pinched the front of her gown, I watched her look inside before r*bbing her th**hs

Her l*ps quivered, and she looked at her hands. Doc and I had cleaned her up, so she wasn’t soaked in blood, but the way she looked at her hands was like that was all she saw. Moving closer, her head lifted, and she looked at me. Her voice held no emotion, and I felt nothing through the bond at all, like the bond no longer existed

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