Filed To Story: Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)
We had been trying for hours to command the answer out of him, but his answer remained the same.
“How can he admit to giving it to her but not know where he got it,” Cedric growls, tapping his face.
“Leave him. He doesn’t know,” I sigh, shaking my head.
“But he gave it to her,” Cedric growls angrily at him when Peter starts crying.
“But what if he was commanded to forget?” Trey offers. He had suggested it earlier, and now I was beginning to believe him. Azalea squirms on my lap, her desire to check on him pulsing through me.
Yet here, she is surrounded by her own guard and mine. He would be dead within a blink of an eye if he tried anything, though he was far too weak to do so. The boy could barely lift his own head.
“Go,” I whisper to her, and she jumps off my lap, rushing toward him. Trey instantly steps in her way, and so does Cedric
“Stand down and back up!” she snarls the order, and Trey growls, backing off under her command.
Cedric also does, and I get to my feet, wandering over to her as she lifts his head.
“I don’t know, Azalea, I don’t know,” Peter pleads.
“I know, I know, but we had to be sure,” she whispers to him, and he nods his head limply. She looks over her shoulder at the table.
“Get him some water and a damp cloth,” she says, cl**king her fi**gers at Cedric. He quickly goes to do as he is told and brings her a bottle of water. I grip his head, lifting it. Her heart sputters in her ch*st frantically. Her hand snapped out to grip my wrist as she peered up at me.
I tilt his head back, and she lets out a breath when she realizes I will not hurt him. She uncaps the bottle and tips it to his l*ps, helping him drink. Cedric comes over with a w*t cloth, and she wipes his face, which was saturated with sweat after enduring hours of her command.
“Dustin, can you help him to a room?” Azalea asks, peering up at me. I could tell she wasn’t asking for permission. I p**ss my l*ps in a line.
“I will stay the night with him,” Dustin assures her and me, so I know he wouldn’t be leaving wherever he is placed. “He can stay with Liam and me for the night,” Dustin tells her. Peter’s eyes widen in fear at the mention of Liam’s name, and he glances at him where he stood with Gannon.
But I wouldn’t be arguing; that man slept with one eye open. If Peter tried anything, he would wake to a knife in his gut before he ever managed to sit up.
“That is fine, but use my old quarters. Tandi and Abbie are in yours. I don’t want him around their families,” Dustin nods his head, grabbing his arm and hauling Peter to his feet.
“Are you right with him? I just want to go over this one more time,” Liam asks Dustin. Dustin nods.
“One of the Landeena guards will wait with him until you’re ready, Liam,” Cedric tells him, and he nods, turning back to the board, and Cedric motions to one of the Landeena guards, who grabs Peter’s other arm.
“Azalea, no. You stay here,” I tell her, and she growls but reluctantly does as she is told. We had a deal.
Peter being here came with conditions and rules I wasn’t breaking.
Turning back to the board we had established some sort of timeline, yet so much was missing. And still, it made no sense to me how Crux was involved or what my sister had to do with it. Yet Azalea was insistent on everything being connected. She is convinced Ester is Crux’s mistress.
stares at it. She was getting better with memorizing dates, names and the kingdoms after staring at the damn thing all night while I went over it and over it trying to piece the council into somewhere.
Azalea comes over, looking over the huge board. I could practically feel her thinking. Tension writhes within her. along with confusion and determination,
“Okay, I know everyone said Ester and Crux aren’t involved with each other, and you’re looking for the council’s connection?” Azalea asks.
| peer down at her, and she looks up at me, and I nod. “Go on, this is your theory, so let’s hear it, then,”
I tell her, and Clarice wanders closer to listen. Everything pointed to the council, but we can’t place them anywhere on this timeline.
“We shouldn’t be looking for the council timeline. That can come later,” Azalea says, looking over the table of documents. She picks up the hunter’s insignia and chews her l*p.
“Forget the council. Place Ester’s timeline on it,” Azalea says, and I sigh, yet it was worth a shot. I watch as Gannon and Trey move toward the table, gathering documents before they start making a timeline of events with the minimal information we had.
2004- Azalea was born
2007- December Ester falls pregnant.
2008- February-Landeena Kingdom falls. Azalea is missing. Marrissa Talbot is missing.
2009- Ester returns to the Valkyrie Kingdom and starts working as a castle servant.
2013- February Valkyrie Kingdom attack. Claire is killed.
2014- Marrissa Talbot was killed. Azalea and Abbie are placed into the orphanage.
2022- Azalea Landeena is found and returned to the Valkyrie Kingdom.
I stare at it, seeing nothing that helps us or links the council. Azalea cl**ks her t***ue.
“See, nothing?” Gannon says. Azalea scrunches up her face as she thinks.
“So where was Ester for the year after my family was killed?” Azalea asks, looking at Trey.
“And where did you go after the Kingdom fell?” she asks him while still peering over at him.
“With the Landeena Guard looking for you,” Trey says.
“Add it to the board. I want to see what matches after my parent’s kingdom fell” she says, her brows scrunching together.
“What is the point of this?” I ask her.
“Tam trying to figure out how no one recognized Marissa or Ester, two women that were at both
Kingdom’s, when they fell” I sigh. If we were mapping out a timeline of every person, we would be here all year and still not be finished.
Azalea POV
We were missing something. I could feel it, and it was right on the tip of my t***ue. One thing that would tie everything together, yet there was also how the council was involved and why Crux would go against his own uncle, my father.
I watch as Trey adds his details to the board, trying to find anything that could link Ester to the rogue murders or the council.
2004- Azalea was born.
2007- December Ester falls pregnant with Peter.
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