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chapter 13
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2026-11-06 00:52:47
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The Lycan King's lost night chapter 13
CassianThe royal crypt was under the oldest part of the palace, down a hundred stone steps that nobody had walked in years. I went alone, at midnight, with one torch.It was cold down there. Cold and silent and smelling of dust and old stone. My footsteps echoed off the walls. Kings and queens lay in long rows on both sides of me, their names carved into marble. My father. My grandmother. People I barely remembered.At the very end, in the newest corner, was Dorian. I stopped in front of his tomb and looked at his name for a long time.'DORIAN ALARIC DRAVEN. BELOVED SON. BELOVED BROTHER.'Beloved. I had chosen that word myself. Even after everything."What did you do?" I said out loud. My voice sounded strange in the empty dark. "What did you leave behind?" The stone didn't answer.I put the torch in the iron ring on the wall. Then I put both hands on the lid of the tomb and pushed.It was heavy. Heavy enough that it would have taken ten men to move it. It scraped and groaned, the l
The Lycan King's lost night chapter 12
Elara "You're not going to the tower tonight." I stopped in the middle of tying my apron. "What?" Mrs. Greer didn't look up from her list. "His Majesty sent word this morning. The study doesn't need cleaning anymore. You're back on laundry with the others." "Did I do something wrong?" "Did you?" She finally looked at me over her glasses. "You tell me, girl." didn't know what to say. My face was burning. Across the room, Bianca laughed. "Oh no. Did the King get bored of his new toy already?" "Bianca," Mrs. Greer snapped. "Sheets. Now." Bianca grabbed a basket and walked off, still smiling. I went to the laundry and stood at the big sink and scrubbed tablecloths until my arms hurt. I told myself it didn't matter. It was just a job. Laundry was easier anyway. No stairs. No stools. No standing in a dark room with a man whose voice made my knees weak. But it did matter. I kept thinking about the storm. His arm around me. His thumb on my cheek. Say my name. And then this mo
The Lycan King's lost night chapter 11
Elara The storm started at seven. By the time I climbed the stairs to the King's study at eight, the whole tower was shaking. Rain was hitting the windows like someone was throwing handfuls of rocks. The thunder rolled so loud I felt it in my teeth. I hate storms. I didn't use to. When I was little, Mom and I would sit by the window with hot chocolate and count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder. It was our game. But it was raining the night my father sold me. It was raining when I ran. Now every time I hear thunder, I smell cigars and whisky and feel an old man's hands on my waist. I knocked with a shaking hand. "Come." I went in with my eyes down. The fire was burning high tonight. The lamp was on at his desk. Everything looked warm and safe, and I told myself to stop being a baby. I started on the books. Lightning flashed. The whole room went white. Then the thunder came, so loud and so close that I dropped the duster and covered my ears without meaning to. "
The Lycan King's lost night chapter 10
Elara "You're coming. That's final." Lucien was leaning against the door of the laundry room, grinning, with the morning sun behind him making his hair look like gold. "I have work," I said, folding a sheet. "It's your day off." "How do you know that?" "I'm a prince. I know everything." He walked over, took the sheet out of my hands, and dropped it on the pile. "Come on. The spring market is in town today. Music. Food. Those little honey cakes that are so sweet they make your teeth hurt." "Lucien, I can't just walk around town with you. People will see," I said trying to reason with him. "So? Let them." "Mrs. Greer will kill me." "Mrs. Greer has been terrified of me since I was six years old and put a frog in her soup." He took my hand. "One afternoon. That's all I'm asking. Then you can go back to pretending you don't like me." "I don't like you." "Liar," he said, and smiled. I looked at Rosie, who was folding towels on the other side of the room and pretending very
The Lycan King's lost night chapter 9
Cassian "Close the door." Lucien closed the door of my study and leaned back against it with his hands in his pockets. Still smiling. He had been smiling since the great hall, and every time I looked at that smile, my wolf wanted to wipe it off his face. "You wanted to see me, Father?" "The maid," I said. "Elara. What is she to you?" His eyebrows went up. "Wow. Straight to it. You haven't even asked me how my month was." "Lucien." "Okay, okay." He pushed off the door and dropped into the chair in front of my desk like he owned it. "She's new. She's pretty. I like her. That's all." "You gave her a bracelet." "I give lots of girls lots of things." "Not with the royal moon on them." For a second, just a second, something moved behind his eyes. Then he shrugged. "It's just a bracelet. Why do you care? You've never cared who I see before." He was right. In twenty-three years, I had never once asked about the girls. I had always told myself he would grow out of it. That he
The Lycan King's lost night chapter 8
Cassian The moment I stepped out of the car, I smelled her. Vanilla and rain. I stopped so suddenly that Rhys walked into my back. "My King?" I didn't answer. I lifted my head and breathed in again. Slowly. Carefully. Under the smoke of the torches and the sweat of the guards and the blood still drying on my coat, there it was. So faint I almost thought I made it up. Her. 'She's here,' my wolf said. He was on his feet inside me, every hair standing up. 'She's HERE.' 'That's impossible.' 'I know her scent. I would know it anywhere. She is here.' I looked up at the palace. At the hundreds of dark windows. At the towers. At the low windows of the servants' wing on the east side, where a few candles were still burning. "My King," Rhys said quietly, "you're bleeding again. The healer is waiting." "In a minute." "Cassian." He only used my name when he was really worried. "You've been awake for three days. You were hurt. Whatever you think you smell..." "I'm not crazy, Rhys.
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