Chapter 208 – Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)

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

“Well, yes. He would be breaking the law we promised to protect.”

“Is there a chance you could be wrong?” she asks, changing the question slightly.

“Well, yeah, a chance. But he wouldn’t. I don’t have to like him, but he is a good council member,” Larkin says.

“He knows nothing,” I breathe out, annoyed. Whatever was going on with Crux and the hunters. Larkin wasn’t a part of it. That much is clear. That didn’t rule out Crux, though.

“So I can see my son?” Larkin asks.

“I’m leaving that decision to my Beta,” I tell him. Tandi was his mate, although I don’t think he is a threat to her or her son. Larkin nods his head and sighs before folding his arms across his chest and staring up at the ceiling. “This is ridiculous,” he mutters to himself.

“The council keeps track of the missing rogue children, right?” Azalea asks, and Larkin nods, turning his attention to her again.

“We have those files here,” I tell Azalea.

“And there were no patterns in any of the deaths?” she continues. Larkin shrugs.

“None we could find. Only that it was mostly females, but the ages ranged, and sometimes entire families,” Larkin says. Azalea, I could tell, was thinking hard about something, something that was really bothering her, and I knew she was eager to speak to Cedric about whatever it was she dreamed.

“Can you get a diary or something of Crux’s track records?”

“Of course, we have to log everything, even the kilometers on the cars. They have GPS built into them.

They track our every move,” Larkin says.

“Wait, so Crux knows you’re here?” I ask him.

“If he looked into it, well, yes, he could track me here. My brother set it up. He didn’t trust the newer council members Crux was recruiting. They handle the smaller packs, about five or six of them.”

“Can you get Crux’s records?”

“If you have a computer. I can log in and do it now, but it will only go back since technology advanced, not back to your parent’s deaths, my Queen. Tech wasn’t that advanced back then.” he says.

“I don’t need it to go back that far. I want to cross-reference it with the missing rogue children,”

“What about my parent’s records? Did the Council keep tabs on them?”

“No, we couldn’t get close to the Kingdom, only Crux. Your father had a soft spot for him. He felt bad that his father wanted nothing to do with him,” Larkin says with a shrug.

“Did Crux know of my existence?” Azalea asks Larkin.

“No one did, not even Crux,” Cedric answers. “You never left the castle or stepped out of the castle walls.

Only a select few knew of you until after their deaths,” Cedric adds.

“So there is no chance Crux knew of my existence?” Azalea asks. My brows furrow at her question.

“Not unless someone inside told him,” Cedric answers. “Why?” Cedric asks her.

“It’s probably nothing,” she says, though I could tell it bothered her badly.

“Speak,” I whisper, nudging her.

“What if the children are dead because of me? Most of the women that have been killed recently are around my age. What if the children were just caught up in it, saw too much?”

“Larkin sometimes said, entire families. What if the recent missing children weren’t the targets but their mothers or sisters? They only had an approximate age, right?” Azalea asks.

“But the hunters never knew of your existence. Everyone thought you were dead.” Cedric says.

“But what if they knew I was alive when I was a kid? My mother, I mean Marrissa, was on the run. She was hiding from something it is obvious to me now with how we never stayed in one place long, and that leads me back to my dream,”

“Your dream?” Cedric answers.

“Yes, my mother told Marrissa to run with me, to give me to my mate,” Azalea says, looking at me.

“But I didn’t know you were my mate back then. I didn’t even know you existed,” I tell her.

“Doesn’t mean Queen Tatiana didn’t know. Your mother sometimes saw things and got strange senses.

Your father tried to say she dabbled in the dark arts and banned her from using some of her particular gifts,” Cedric explains, and Trey nods behind him.

“Yeah, gifts that would catch him out cheating, not that she couldn’t feel his infidelity, the prick,” Trey growls. I smile sadly, knowing that it must have been terrible to watch his mate in agony because her husband was unfaithful.

“So my mother could see the future?” Azalea asks Cedric.

“Not exactly, more like intuition. Sometimes when she touches someone or first met them. She didn’t have full visions,” Trey said. I hum thoughtfully, thinking back to all the times I had met Tatiana and how she was always so welcoming. Was that why?

“Although that would explain when King Garret always tried to sabotage the trials, why your mother made me sabotage him,” Cedric says.

“My mother sabotaged him?” Azalea asks.

“Yeah, he would try to cheat, poison the water to make those competing sick. A couple of times, she had me switch the bottle over his own or empty the vials and refill them with herbs. Another was when he tried to use his powers to command everyone to fail; Tatty asked me to slip him wolfsbane and water hemlock so he couldn’t, so I did.” He chuckles. “At first, I believed it was her revenge for his infidelity.

Everyone knew the king was unfaithful, and it shamed your mother. None of us were blind to it,” Cedric says softly.

“Anyway, I thought your father hated King Kyson at first, but it turns out he was trying to win your hand back,” Cedric answers. I glance at Trey, who looks away.

“And just for the record, Cedric. When you caught Marrissa on the ground floor that night, Marrissa didn’t betray my mother. My mother told her to run with me, that the hunters would discover me if she ran with

She told Marrissa to run. She was never a traitor” Azalea tells him, and Cedric bows his head.

“When I saw her in the hunter uniform-”

“You were wrong, but your Kingdom was under attack. I understand,” Azalea says.

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