Chapter 215 – Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)

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“And no one thought to invite me?” Clarice demands, wandering over. She plucks the whiskey bottle out of Liam’s hand and drinks from it before sighing.

“f**k, I needed that! Those kids have been running rings around me all damn night,” she states before falling into our little circle on the floor. She hands the bottle back to Liam, who smirks and rolls onto his back on the floor, staring up at the ceiling.

“If you’re going to raid my kitchen next time, an invitation would be nice, girls. Now, where is that cake?”

she says.

“I’ll get it,” Trey says, wandering off. I watch everyone get wasted while I remain nursing the same wine glass. They looked like they needed to let loose. Yet I couldn’t bring myself to drink when I was constantly at Kyson about his drinking.

It didn’t feel right, and I was still sober along with Clarice when the sun came up. Who, I think, was sticking around to supervise, so we didn’t cause trouble. Meanwhile, Abbie could barely walk and was in fits of giggles, and her face was bright red from all the wine. She had also lost a sl*pper.

Tandi is dancing on top of a table with Liam, while Dustin is on the verge of having a heart attack every time she gets too close to the edge. Liam was singing about some made-up song and kept calling Dustin his sweetpea, which ended with him being snapped at by Dustin.

I laughed, watching them make fools of themselves while sitting with Trey and Clarice.

“Always fun watching. Reminds me of when I was young,” Clarice says, sipping her glass of wine.

“How old are you?” | ask. As far as Clarice was concerned, I didn’t know much about her. Only now had it occurred to me

“too old,” she laughs.

“Have you always lived at the castle?” I ask her while watching Abbie hunt beneath one of the bunk beds for her sl*pper. She comes out and jumps up victoriously, clutching it.

“Pretty much. When I had my mate, we lived in town, and I used to walk here, but after he died, I preferred being at the castle. It was lonely in the house by myself. This place kept me sane.” she tells

Just the thought of something happening to Kyson twisted my heart, so I couldn’t imagine losing

him.

“What happened to him?”

“He was a werewolf. I had been holding off on changing him, knowing how horrific it is to do so?”

“What do you mean?” I ask, remembering that Gannon had tried to change Abbie. Clarice shakes her head. “That is something best explained by your mate.”

“So what happened to him, then?”

“This was just before your parents’ deaths. The hunter attacks were quite frequent, but they usually hit the packs. It was as if they used the packs for training when they hit them. Anyway, when we learned of the attacks, he wanted to help protect them, that they were his people, and he had family there. I refused at first, but he snuck off. Kyson found him dead and brought him home for me. He is buried in the cemetery by the river,”

“And you never thought to find a new mate?” I ask her. “No, I loved my mate. After that, I focused on helping here. Put all my time into this place.”

“When I first came here, I was hired as a nanny. I raised Kyson, Liam, and Gannon all here. Damian, too;

I love all the staff as if they were my own. Then, once the King was older, he kept me on, and I stayed.

Then I found my mate, then lost him a short time later, and all I had was this place, so I moved back into the castle.” she tells me.

“So you never had a chance to have kids?” she shakes her head.

“No, but I am hoping one day I will get to help you raise yours. When you’re ready, of course, to try again,” she tells me. I smile sadly and nod.

A short time later, Clarice rises to her feet and says she had to check the boys. Yet moments after she left, the fun abruptly stopped when Damian burst through the doors furiously.

“I take it back. Trey is not the fun police. My mate is!” Tandi says, flailing her hand at him. Yet I had to agree with her because the look on his face was furious. Dustin moves quickly to my side as Damian storms in.

“You!” Damian snarls, and I glance bet**en the table Liam and Tandi were dancing on and Damian.

However, he was not looking at Tandi but at Liam, Liam looks over his shoulder before looking at

Damian. “Me?” He says, pointing at himself when his eyes widen as Damian snarls and shifts. Tandi screams, flying off the table as it is upturned when Damian crashes on top of Liam.

The air expelling from Liam’s lungs was audible as he hit the ground with the angry Lycan’s weight crushing the air from him.

Tandi tries to separate the pair of them as they pummel each other, and Liam is far too drunk even to shift.

“Damian! What has gotten into you? Get off him!” Tandi screeches, ripping on his back. Abbie giggles as she drunkenly stumbles over to me with her bunny sl*pper in her hand, clutching it as if it was some prized possession.

“Get ’em, Tandi!” she squeals loudly beside me.

“I don’t think Damian is playing, Abbie,” she looks at me before looking at them when Damian punches

Liam so hard his nose breaks. “Woah! Not the f**king face! Body shots only prick!” Liam spits at him.

Just as Tandi hauls Damian off him, Trey strolls over to me, sitting next to me.

“You’re not going to stop them?” I ask Trey, and he shrugs.

“Not unless you ask. Or they get too close to you,” Trey yawns. I look at Dustin, who also just shrugs.

“Liam can handle himself,” he says, looking unperturbed by his boyfriend getting his ass handed to him.

“Stay the f**k away from my mate!” Damian spits at Liam. And good old Liam just doesn’t know when to shut his mouth, and I eye-rolled so hard I swear I could see a glimpse of my brain.

“Not my fault. She likes me more than you,” Liam taunts. That Lycan had a death wish, and death was coming for him. As Damian spun on his heel so quickly, Liam only jumped out of the way of his foot as he went to stomp him.

Damian’s foot misses him by mere inches when Liam punches Damian’s inner th**h as he reaches down to try to grab him. Which makes Damian grunt, and he drops his head. Liam took that opportunity to uppercut him. I heard the sound of his teeth gnashing before all hell broke loose. Dustin sighs, stepping in front of us.

My heart skips a beat, and I grab Abbie ripping her away as they come flying toward us. Trey quickly moves to block me as Liam comes flying toward us from a kick to the stomach.

Trey grabs him, shoving him away and toward the doors, while Dustin shoves us behind him to the side.

“Out now!” Trey snarls, pointing toward the door while glaring at Dustin, and I feel Kyson wake, and by God, they want to run before he gets here. Liam bows and looks at Dustin.

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