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CHAPTER 85
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2026-04-09 08:03:05ETHAN
We caught him in the servants' corridor at midnight.
Young. Maybe twenty. Scrawny build that let him pass as a kitchen assistant. He had been working in the palace for three weeks under a false name and forged references. Long enough to map the guard rotations. Long enough to learn which council members kept irregular hours. Long enough to be useful.
My men dragged him into the interrogation room beneath the
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MAYAThe first message arrived at dawn.A palace runner delivered it to my door. Young girl. Maybe fourteen. She handed me the sealed envelope and left quickly without meeting my eyes. Like she had been instructed not to engage.I recognized the handwriting on the front. Sharp. Precise. The penmanship of a man trained from childhood to turn even casual notes into formal declarations.Asher.I set it on the table. Did not open it. Went to training instead.The second message arrived at noon.Same runner. Same instructions. She placed it in my hand and retreated before I could speak. This envelope was thicker. More pages. More words trying to bridge a gap that felt insurmountable.I set it beside the first one. Still sealed. Went back to the striking post and hit it until my knuckles split.
AUCTIONED TO THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 85
ETHANWe caught him in the servants' corridor at midnight.Young. Maybe twenty. Scrawny build that let him pass as a kitchen assistant. He had been working in the palace for three weeks under a false name and forged references. Long enough to map the guard rotations. Long enough to learn which council members kept irregular hours. Long enough to be useful.My men dragged him into the interrogation room beneath the barracks. Stone walls. No windows. A single torch bracket that cast shadows designed to make prisoners feel smaller than they were.I let him sit in the dark for an hour before I walked in.He was shaking. Good. Fear was a crack I could work into a fissure.I pulled up a chair. Sat across from him. Did not speak. Just looked at him with the expression I had perfected over years of extracting information from people who thought silen
AUCTIONED TO THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 84
MAYAThe morning session ended with blood on my knuckles again.Rhea did not comment. She just tossed me a clean rag and walked toward the armory muttering something about needing to reinforce the next batch of striking posts with iron.I sat on the bench at the edge of the training grounds and wrapped my hands. The bond hummed with dull exhaustion. Not mine. His. Asher had been in meetings since dawn. I felt every minute of it through the connection. The strain. The effort it took him to focus when his body was screaming for proximity I refused to give.Good. Let him suffer through council sessions while his wolf clawed at his ribs.I was tying off the last bandage when I felt her approach.Not through the bond. Through instinct. The particular awareness that came from spending years in a pack where you learned to read tension in the air bef
AUCTIONED TO THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 83
KAELThe meeting took place in Lord Harlen's private study. Away from the palace. Away from eyes and ears that reported to the King.Three council members sat in leather chairs arranged in a careful semicircle. Lord Harlen. Lady Voss. And Lord Torven, the oldest member of the council, a man whose loyalty had wavered in recent weeks like a compass near magnetic interference.I stood near the fireplace. Not sitting. Standing conveyed authority. Control. The unspoken message that this gathering existed at my discretion, not theirs."Thank you for coming" I began. My voice was measured. Calm. The tone of a concerned advisor, not a conspirator. "I know the hour is late and the request was irregular. But what we must discuss cannot wait for formal sessions."Harlen shifted in his chair. He was nervous. Good. Nervous men were easier to guide."You s
AUCTIONED TO THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 82
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ASHERI sat on her doorstep for three hours.The sun moved across the sky. Shadows lengthened. Children played in the settlement around me. Blue Moon survivors moved through their routines with the quiet efficiency that Olivia had drilled into them. A few noticed the Lycan King sitting on a wooden step outside the smallest house in the lower quarters. Most pretended they did not.I did not blame them. I was trespassing. This was her space. Her territory. The place she had fled to when my sins became too heavy to carry.But I could not leave. The bond would not let me. It pulled tighter with every hour of separation until sitting in the palace felt like being buried alive. I needed to be closer to her even if closer meant waiting on a doorstep like a beggar hoping for scraps.Through the bond I tracked her. She was training. Again. Always training. Channeling grie
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MAYAThe messenger arrived during my morning session with Rhea.I was mid-strike when I heard the commotion at the edge of the training grounds. Raised voices. The scuffle of boots on packed dirt. A sharp commanding bark from one of the Lycan guards stationed at the perimeter.I lowered my fists. R
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DAMIENThe war camp stretched across the valley like a wound carved into the earth.I stood on the ridge overlooking it. Rows of tents. Weapon racks. Training circles where fighters sparred in the mud. Cook fires sending grey columns of smoke into the overcast sky. The sounds of a thousand men prep
AUCTIONED TO THE LYCAN KING CHAPTER 78
MAYAI woke to the sound of organization.Not chaos. Not the frantic scrambling of refugees trying to survive another day. Organization. Structured. Purposeful. The kind of sound that meant someone had taken the mess and started turning it into something functional.I sat up in bed. My muscles prot
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MAYAI hit the wooden post until my knuckles split.Then I hit it again.Dawn had not fully broken. The training grounds were empty. Fog clung to the dirt like a living thing, swirling around my bare feet as I drove my fists into the striking post with a rhythm that matched the pounding in my chest
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