You Don’t Get to Leave

CHAPTER 6

You Don’t Get to Leave

Nyra’s POV

“And when I arrive…”

His jaw hardened.

“Someone will die.”

Fear crashed into me instantly.

“No.”

I threw the blanket away and forced myself out of the bed and the pain shot through my body immediately, but I did not care.

“You can’t do that,” I said fast. “You don’t understand.”

The room spinned for one second, but I still pushed forward.

“I need to go back before Draven thinks something happened.”

Cassian did not move, he just watched me calmly while I struggled to stand properly.

“You are shaking,” he said.

“I said I need to go back!”

I tried walking past him, but it was a big mistake.

The moment I reached the door, two guards stepped in front of me instantly and my chest tightened.

“Move.”

They did not and I turned back toward Cassian angrily.

“You cannot keep me here!”

His expression did not change.

“I can.”

That answer burned through me.

“You don’t own me!”

Cassian finally walked closer, slow, calm and dangerous and every step made my heartbeat faster.

“You are injured,” he said. “Pregnant, exhausted and hunted. Yet you still think returning to the pack that threw you away is a smart idea.”

“The royal healer told me everything,” he continued calmly. “The broken mate bond, the rejection, the child.”

My chest tightened instantly.

So the healer told him.

Humiliation crawled through me again.

“You don’t know anything about my pack!”

“I know enough.”

His voice dropped lower.

“They rejected you.”

Pain slammed into my chest again and I hated that word now. “Rejected.”

I then gritted my teeth hard.

“That child is not yours.”

Silence fell and the guards lowered their heads immediately like they should not even hear this conversation.

The healer had already left earlier after treating my wounds, but the damage was done.

Now the Lycan guards knew too, the castle would know soon enough. A rejected pregnant wolf.

I wanted the floor to swallow me whole.

Cassian then stopped right in front of me, he was too close and his silver eyes were locked onto mine.

“But you are.”

My breath caught.

“No,” I whispered immediately.

“Yes.”

His answer came without hesitation and anger rose inside me fast.

“You sound just like every Alpha.”

Something dangerous flashed across his face.

“If I wanted ownership,” he said slowly, “you would already know it.”

That line hit me hard and then I stepped back without meaning to and my wolf stirred uneasily inside me.

No. No no no.

I already had a mate and I already went through this pain once, I could feel this again.

“I already have a mate,” I snapped and Cassian’s jaw tightened slightly.

“He rejected you.”

There was silence and the pain returned so suddenly that my knees almost buckled and then my chest burned and my throat tightened.

I still heard Draven’s voice in my head.

“A weak omega in chains will never be my Luna.”

I hated that it still hurt and I hated that I still cared. Then suddenly anger exploded out of me and I shoved Cassian hard.

“Stop saying that!”

The guards were tense instantly and Cassian barely moved from the push and that only made me angrier.

I attacked him again, this time with my fist but he caught my wrist easily, too easily and I tried hitting him with the other hand and he caught that too.

Then suddenly my back hit the bed again and a gasp left my mouth.

Cassian pinned both my wrists above me with one hand, his body hovered over mine and my pulse lost control instantly.

“Let me go!”

“You are trying to fight a Lycan King while barely able to stand.”

“I hate you!”

“No, you don’t.”

His face was too close now and I could feel his breath against my skin.

Everything inside me started reacting strangely again, my wolf moved restlessly, it was not from fear but from something worse and something hotter.

Then my breath caught. No. Not this.

Cassian noticed immediately and I could tell from the way his eyes darkened.

“You feel it too,” he said quietly and panic rushed through me.

I jerked away from him so hard that he finally released my wrists and I moved backward fast until my back hit the headboard.

“No.”

My voice shook badly but Cassian kept watching me carefully.

“You are afraid of the bond.”

“I am afraid of you.”

Something almost painful passed across his face for one second and then it disappeared.

“You should rest.”

“I want to leave.”

“You are not leaving.”

“You cannot force me to stay here!”

His gaze hardened.

“Watch me.”

Anger burned through me again but before I could speak, one of the guards suddenly bowed his head.

“Your Majesty.”

Cassian looked toward him.

“What?”

“We found movement near the western hall. Someone entered this floor without permission.”

My stomach tightened immediately and Cassian’s expression darkened instantly.

“Search the entire corridor.”

“Yes, Your Majesty.”

The guards left quickly and Cassian turned back toward me.

“You are changing rooms.”

“I am not going anywhere with you.”

“You are.”

“I said no.”

Cassian ignored me completely and before I realized what he planned to do, he suddenly lifted me into his arms and a shocked sound left my mouth instantly.

“Put me down!”

I then struggled immediately, but my body still felt weak but Cassian did not even react.

“Stop moving.”

“I hate you!”

“You already said that.”

“You arrogant beast!”

One corner of his mouth almost moved and that only annoyed me more.

He then carried me through the massive castle halls like I weighed nothing.

Servants froze the moment they saw us, some stared openly while others whispered behind their hands and heat rushed into my face from humiliation.

News already moved through the castle faster than fire.

The guards heard everything earlier and the healer treated me openly. Now everyone knew the Lycan King brought home, a rejected mate, a pregnant wolf with another Alpha’s child

And from the way they stared at me…they hated me for all three.

“Put me down,” I hissed quietly but Cassian ignored me again.

“I can walk.”

“You can barely breathe without shaking.”

I glared at him but he kept walking.

The castle felt endless, tall walls, silver lights and massive windows and everywhere we passed, people stopped talking.

Then I heard it.

A female servant whispered quietly to another.

“She already has the King wrapped around her.”

The second servant laughed under her breath.

“All because she spread her legs for another Alpha first.”

The words hit me hard and shame burned through my chest instantly and then I lowered my eyes.

Then suddenly Cassian stopped walking and the entire hallway fell silent immediately and slowly, he turned his head toward the servants and his silver eyes became terrifying.

The girls went pale instantly and one almost stumbled backward.

Cassian’s voice came out low and deadly.

“No one speaks about my mate that way twice.”