Lahat ng Kabanata ng The Lycan Prince’s Puppy: Kabanata 231 - Kabanata 240

Violet“He knows,” I breathed.I looked at Kylan for a long moment, just studying him the way he always studied me as I looked for signs. To be honest, I didn’t even know what I was looking for.Maybe a twitch, or a shift, or anything to tell me how bad this was going to be. Was he angry?He looked angry. But I wasn’t sure.Was this the part I had been so afraid of? Where the one person I had been leaning on the most would finally call me stupid?Kylan’s jaw flexed. He pulled in a breath through his nose, clearly trying not to snap, and then he…smiled. His lips curled into a tight smile, and his hand slowly rested on my thigh.“And when did this happen?” he asked. His tone was gentle but tense. He didn’t need to tell me that he was hurt, and he didn’t have to try and hide it either, because I could clearly tell. It had affected him.“It was the first day I got here,” I came clean, my voice small. “That morning I went to Madam Renata. I got overwhelmed, had a panic attack, and my eyes…

VioletKylan’s body stiffened. His hand slipped off the door handle, and his eyes went big as he turned around all the way.“What did you just say?” he asked, stunned.I gulped, knowing it was not exactly what he wanted to hear, but he was the one who told me not to lie to him again. My heart was beating out of my chest, but I held his gaze.“You told me to be honest with you,” I said, my voice steady. “So I’m being honest.”Even as the words left me, my mind was spinning. I didn’t want to go against Kylan, and I didn’t want to provoke him or turn this into something ugly. As a matter of fact, it had always been hard for me to be open about what I wanted, and what I believed in. I had spent most of my life watering myself down so I wouldn’t scare anyone off.But Kylan had told me to be real…So I was being real, and yes, I was shitting myself.Kylan looked down at his balled fist, then slowly opened it. “My hand,” he said, “could be wrapped around Kayden’s throat at this very second.”

KylanI let out a surprised laugh, even if I didn’t mean to. I didn’t know what was funnier, that she had called herself a failing mother, or that she thought she might still have something to offer after I had already ruined everything.She was the woman who gave birth to me. My mother, and not just mine, but Lyperia’s mother. I had always been desperate for her love, and I still was. I remembered how relieved I had felt when I saw her standing with Violet at the feast. Even more when I bumped into her in the halls and she didn’t look at me with that same coldness I had learned to get used to.I understood why she was angry, and I accepted it. She had every right to be. For so long, I had wished she would forgive me.But now that she was here, standing in front of me, I wasn’t quite sure if I even liked the sound of what she was saying.She acknowledged something, and it meant I had to face something I wasn’t ready for, something I wasn’t even focused on at the moment. Her actually t

Violet“What?” I shook my head in disbelief. “You want me to…speak in front of them? Me?”“You said you wanted to help without making your eyes glow, and I agreed to help you,” Kylan pointed out. “This is how.”My throat tightened, my heart pounded. I could barely open my mouth to greet anyone at the feast, where I had also failed to give a speech. How could he possibly believe I was capable of even uttering a word during a council meeting?And most importantly…“Will the king be there?”“He is the king,” Kylan lifted his shoulders. “Of course he will be there.”My lips parted again, but the words refused to come. I kept waiting for him to laugh, to tell me it was all some kind of joke, but there was still nothing. “Why me?” I asked. “Why do I have to be the one to do the talking?”Kylan kept his eyes on mine. There was something steady in them, something that told me this wasn’t a spur-of-the-moment decision. He had thought this through.“When I was younger,” he began, “and I wanted

VioletI smiled at him, trying to act casual even though there was a lump in my throat. “Well, that depends,” I said. I almost sounded like Kylan for a second—that was his line, not mine. I squinted my eyes at Kayden, tilting my head a little. “What does ‘good’ mean?”His eyes flicked to Trinity, and he gave her a curious look. As bold as Kayden usually was, he was probably wondering why he had sent away his maid while I hadn’t sent away my ‘lady-in-waiting’, but Trinity was so much more than that.She frowned back at him, arms crossed, not even a little bit scared. If anything, her face said go ahead and try me.I looked back and forth between the two of them before softly clearing my throat. “You can just talk freely,” I told him. “I already told her everything there is to know.”For me, that was the first part of drawing a clear line. There would be no secrets between me and Trinity anymore, and I wasn’t going to start hiding things with him either. Kayden didn’t respond right away