Chapter 183 – Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)

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

She was furious, and her entire body trembled with anger so hot I worried she would set the castle on fire with it.

The history books always toid of the Landeena Power and looking at her I realized she held her father’s power and her mothers, she would now be a force of nature, no one could contend against a Landee

na and she was born of not one gifted bloodline but two. Both Landeena and Azure.

Axure the powerful, Azure the pure, Azure the great. The History books read. Azalea was also Landeena. Their history books read Similarly. Landeena the blessed, Landeena the beholder of divine power, Landeena our salvation, Landeena the emp**ss and now She had awoken it. Now she possessed what was supp**ssed, and I knew without a doubt that I had some answering to do. And now she had awoken it, the entire werewolf, Lyoan and Hunters communities would be after her.

But first I had to take care of Peter before she turned it on me. Shifting, she would struggle to hold power long enough to contain my beast, so I gave in to it, let that side take control. My claws slashed down Peter’s face. Ester screamed, and I moved to break his neck. My fi**gers wr*pped around his throat when Ester’s words stopped me, and so did Azalea’s command.

“He is a Landeena!” Ester screams simultaneously as Azalea orders me to stop. Though, her shock had her dropping the command long enough for me to grip his throat tighter and cut his air off, before I am frozen under it again. My head pounding to the force of it as I tried to fight it, she could overthrow me. However, she was using power she had no idea how to wield, and it would be straining on her until she learned to harness it correctly.

I growled, turning to Ester. “He has immunity! He is King Garret’s son!” Ester cries, clutching onto Azalea’s pants.

*Please! He is your brother! He’s your half brother, please!” she begs, and I swallow, look down at Peter’s, my hands trembling as sq***ze his neck.

“Let him go.” Azalea says, her voice trembled, her eyes fl**king toward me. I growl at her and her eyes blaze with anger, and her next words slammed against me with the force of a freight train.

“Let him go. I have lost my child and I will not witness another lose hers! Let him go!” She commands, with tears trekking down her face yet her words were clear and unwavering..

I could feel her betrayal, her sadness, her anger, and her confusion. She was full of every emotion I could think of, but the biggest one was grief as she looked down at Ester clutching her leg. My hand lets him go, and he gasps for air.

“I would do anything to be able to have kept my baby. You have a chance to hold yours. I will never get that chance. Your son took it. from me. However, I would never wish that on any mother even after what you have both done,” she looks at Peter.

“Go to your mother Peter,” Azalea whispers. Her command overrode mine easily, and he rushed to her, falling at her feet and Ester clutched him tightly. When Trey roared, getting to his feet.

Azalea turns to face him. His anger forced his shift as he lunged at his sister and Peter. Ester shifts taking on her brother to stop him from getting to her son. Azalea just stares at them before turning and walking off, looking defeated, and that’s ali i felt through the bond too. Her defeat, pain, anguish and grief when Ester tosses Trey aside and snarls, baring her teeth at her brother before they both lunged at each other, ripping each other apart.”

Peter screamed for his mother and I felt Azalea stop and glance at them while Peter sobbed on the ground. I tried to piece together what was happening and what wasn’t happening. She was defending the boy she refused to acknowledge, fighting her own brother for him.

Trey swings at her, his claws slashing her face when she ducks, and she stumbles back before he pounces on her, intending to kill her only for her to kick him off.

“All of this is your fault! Your f**king fault because you kept throwing yourself at his feet! You knew you were hurting her! You f**king knew who she was to me,” Trey snarled, getting to his feet and stalking toward her.

“And then you decide to keep his bastard!” Trey snarls.

“I loved him!” Ester screams back at him only to receive a kick to the stomach that sent her hurdling toward the gate with a crash.

“He used you and you nearly killed her for it! You nearly killed my f**king mate!” Trey said, grabbing her throat. He slams her Lycan form on the ground, her head crashing into the ground when Peter jumps on his back, ort, to be swatted away like a fly by Trey. Yet, once again, I was confused.

“She didn’t want you, you idiot! She married the prick. Then you let him sire you to their daughter just to stay near her. You did the same thing, Trey! How is me loving him any different from you loving Tatiana?” Ester screams at him.

“I was her mate! You were his whore!” Trey screams when Azalea’s voice reaches my ears.

“Enough,” she says softly and everyone freezes and I watch as she sways on her feet, Liam grips her arm holding her steady but her legs go out from under her. Trey tosses his sister to get to her, just as I reach her.

“You awoke it, and you burned yourself out.” Trey tells her, clutching her face as I scoop her up in my arms.

“My head hurts,” she whispers, r*bbing her temples. Trey goes to touch her again, but i snarl at him and I turn to look for Ester. But she was gone and had fled with Peter. Although now hundreds of faces peered back at us from behind the gate. I gulp. They would have felt her power, though I didn’t think they would get here so quickly. Armored up, sword

s in their hands, Landeena swords, they came to fight for her.

“Find them. And bring them back,” I tell Trey and Liam, as Cedric walked through the gates, his armor holding the Landeena crest.

Liam and Trey, watch him warily as he approached Trey. He holds out his hands out to Trey with the Azure sword, her mother’s sword in his hands. He kneels before Azalea in my arms and Trey looks down at Azalea in my arms. Cedric was tethered to me, the rest of the Landeena Lycans were tethered to him, and I knew what he wanted and snarled at the thought, but held her hand out anyway for him to run his blade across her palm, her eyes glowed like beacons as the steel sliced her.

* “You won’t hurt them, any of them,” Azalea whispers, fighting to remain conscious in my arms.

“You do and I won’t forg…” she collapses in my arms, going completely limp and Trey grips her wrist, bringing her palm to my l*ps to stem her bleeding. I quickly run my t***ue over the deep gash, and Trey takes her hand, placing it against my ch*st.

“Bring them to the castle,” I turn to Liam, and he nods, and I curse.

“Alive!” i add. f**k! I growl, turning my attention back to Cedric and the others, all on one knee, swords in their hands, though Cedric’ S Sword was covered in her blood.

Cedric looks up at me, and I snarl, but his gaze holds steady. He was her father’s former Beta. Though he was far too old now to maintain that title so she would have to choose another, eventually.

“We revoke our allegiance to the Valkyrie Kingdom and pledge our allegiance to the Landeena Kingdom!”

They all say in unison.

Cedric stands lifting the sword, all the others doing the same as they lifted their swords above their heads, one hand on the hilt while the other hand grabs the blade. They all wipe their hands down the blade, blood drenching them before they pledge simultaneously

“We pledge our allegiance to Azalea Ivy Landeena, the Landeena Emp**ss, the true Emp**ss of the Kingdoms. I bleed for Landeena, I fight for Landeena, I die for Landeena, we are Landeena and our Emp**ss has risen and so has the Landeena Guard. We pledge to serve and protect the rightful heir of Landeena.”

they drop their arms and fall to one knee, swords at their front before continuing.

“The Emp**ss rises, we rise with her, and when she falls, we too shall fall,” they committed their lives to protect her, and I jolt as their tethers to me snapped and Azalea inhales deeply as they tether to her.

Jarit my teeth as I watch Cedric rise to his feet; he bows to me.

Honestly, I had waited for this and knew without a doubt it would happen.

Landeena guards were always and foremost for the emp**ss or emperor, just like my men serve for me.

“We heard of her return, my King, we mean no disrespect.

We appreciate your generosity in taking the Landeena people in.

Still, we always stand behind Landeena.

We just needed to be sure, and when her power vibrated through the sires, we knew she truly was a Landeena,” Cedric says, bowing his head.

My brows furrow at his words, and I look toward Trey, who nods to Cedric, and it makes me wonder how far back Cedric and Trey went.

It was clear Cedric respected Trey, but for whatever reason, it remained unknown.

“Keep her guardian close, my King.

Trey is your biggest asset.

There is a reason Tatiana forced Garret to sire Trey to their daughter,” Cedric says before offering me the Landeena sword.

Trey holds out his arms for Azalea, and I hesitate a second before eventually handing her to him, and he swiftly walks off.

“You will come to see me the moment Liam returns to stand guard,” I tell Trey while taking the sword.

Surprisingly, it was quite light.

The Landeena crest and marking ran the length of the blade.

“No need, I have returned my King,” Liam calls out somewhere, and I look up from the sword.

My eyes glance around the crowd of Landeena people, and Trey stops mid-stride to turn to face me.

Liam pushes through the crowd, his hands wr*pped around Peter’s arm and Ester’s.

Cedric growls at Ester, and she flinches away when Cedric steps directly in Liam’s path.

“You dare taint the Landeena name with your spawn” Cedric snarls at her but ultimately leaves her fate to me and steps aside.

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