Filed To Story: Absent Luna of the Lycan King Novel (Ivy & Kyson)
“You can’t fix it, Gannon,” I tell him, knowing this wasn’t something that needed fixing or something he could control.
“Tell me, whatever is wrong, we can work it out,” he says, pressing his forehead against mine. I try to push him away, but he doesn’t budge, refusing to let me go. He lifts my face, staring at me with worry when I try to pull away again.
“What’s wrong?” he asks, wiping my tears away with his thumbs. “l…I found my mate,” I whisper, and he shakes his head.
“What?” he asks, and I swallow, looking away, unable to meet his gaze. “I found my mate,” I repeat, though this time, my voice sounded dead even to my own ears. Gannon lets me go, stepping away from me.
“Who?” he asks, clearly stunned by this information. However, I don’t get a chance to answer when he asks another question.
“Is this why I haven’t been able to find you over the last few days?” he snaps at me.
“Why Clarice has been avoiding me?” I say nothing, knowing that Clarice knew where I was, although I never asked her to lie for me.
“Who is your mate, Abbie?” Gannon asks.
“Why! So you can threaten him as Liam did?” I snap, becoming frustrated with everyone telling me to choose damn sides, forcing my hand. Gannon growls.
“I would never hurt like that?” he says, and I instantly regret his words as he looks away.
“It’s Alpha Kade,” I tell him, and his head whips back to face me. His eyes turn black, and his canines protrude.
“No. You are not his mate,” he snarls.
“Yes, I am,” I tell him.
“No, Abbie, you can’t be with him. I won’t allow it!” he snarls.
“It’s not up to you, Gannon,” he’s my mate, not yours. He growls at me, and the angered look on his face frightens me.
“No, you don’t understand. He is not a good man; he-”
“I don’t want to hear your lies. First, Liam tells me he is married and has a family, and now you want to try to get between us too, mates don’t cheat on mates! Liam said it himself regarding the King. He would tell me if he had a family before me.” Gannon steps closer, but I step back.
“You’re wrong. But you need to listen to me. Kade isn’t who you think he is. I have known him for years-” I hold up my hand, having heard enough, and he stops, and I open my mouth to say something but then close it, not wanting to say something I will regret. Instead, I walk down the stairs toward the kitchens.
“Abbie!”
“No, Gannon. I don’t want to hear it,” I tell him.
“He is married!” Gannon yells at me, and I stop spotting Liam waiting by the doors. I growl, storming off to find Clarice.
Gannon POV
Liam wanders up the stairs toward me after she disappears, and I look at him before snarling. “What did you do?” I snap at him.
“Same as you. I told her the truth. She is just blinded by the mate bond,” he says, shaking his head.
“I can’t let her leave with him,” I mutter and Liam climbs the rest of the stairs and stops beside me.
“Sometimes you need to let them see for themselves. Everything comes to light eventually,” he states.
“I don’t want what’s left over after he breaks her,” I tell him. No way could I handle seeing that sort of heartache. The same heartache Liam and I endured.
“I know brother, but the King already granted him permission to take her when he leaves.” Liam tells me.
“He what?” I asked. Liam nods his head and frowns.,
“I saw Kade stop by last night, so I decided to listen in. Kyson told him if she wants to go she can.” my stomach drops and a cold feeling settles over me.
“No! I won’t allow it!” 1 snarled. How could he agree to such a thing?
“You stop her and she will question if she made the right choice,” Liam says behind me and I stop on the bottom step.
“She’ll come back Gannon” Liam calls out to me.
“I know she will. That isn’t what I’m worried about. I am worried about the state she’ll be in when she does!” I growl before storming off to find Kyson. Liam sighs and I peer over my shoulder to see him slip into the kitchens while I head to the King’s office. The moment I walk into the room, he sighs as if the weight of the world is resting on his shoulders and crushing him.
“You heard the news, I take it?” He says and I fall into one of the chairs by his desk. He doesn’t bother looking up from his paperwork.
“You can’t let her go,” I tell him.
“It’s already decided. She leaves in a few days.” He says simply.
“Kyson!” He looks up before leaning back in his chair and folding his arms across his chest.
“You know the laws, Gannon. I can’t stop her unless she directly asks me to force him to reject her.”
“She would never ask. He has her convinced he is some gift from the Goddess!” I snap at him.
“Mates are gifts from the Goddess,” he says and his brows furrow and I knew he was thinking of his mate that has been rotting away because of his neglect of her. However, my experience with mates and Sia, I would hardly call them a gift. That woman was a fucking curse! A curse I broke. And it nearly killed me doing it.
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