All Chapters of Fated to My Brother in-law, The Lycan King: Chapter 361 - Chapter 370

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A spell to kill you

LUCIAN "What happened?" She winced, "Did I hurt you, or did it work eventually?""No," I shook my head, raising up in an elevated position so that she was looking at me.Then I saw her eyes gradually grow wide with horror."I killed someone," her voice cracked, "I almost killed you and killed someone else instead with a blast. That's what happened, wasn't it?""Shh.... stop talking, let me heal you first. Save your energy," I whispered to her and focused on every healing spell I could think of, mentally searching for the strongest one."Sanitas redeat," I started as she went silent and closed her eyes, "dolor discedat, lux corporis et animae fluat. Per vitam et spiritum, vulnera claudantur."I waited a bit, something should happen now, a wave of light is supposed to move around her now, what was happening??I closed my eyes and repeated the spell with so much conviction. It was the same thing. Nothing was happening.Cassandra peeked her eyes open, "I don't feel any better, Lucia

Three deaths

LUCIAN The world froze for a second, "What?!" Edyrm paid no attention to us. It was like he didn't care."It was supposed to be our foolproof plan against the Dark King.""And you were okay with killing me? You let him do that kind of spell on you?""Don't blame him, I made the decision."I scoffed in annoyance, "You are supporting him still? You wanted to kill me?""You asked what was wrong before, what I was hiding," she started with a cracked voice, "Well, this is it. I was really scared of hurting you. I wanted to get back at the king for everything he's done. Before I came back, the King had done something to me, and Edyrm didn't know until it was too late. The only way to avoid being a vessel and destroying the King's plan was to want to kill you. It's like my body repelling your bloodline.""Oh.." I murmured. "We needed the king to lose, for his plans to fail." Cassandra continued, "Now how that spell works is that if the spell grew stronger or if the king manipulated me

Who am I?

LUCIAN "What?" Edyrm frowned. "You called Lucian, is that my name?" I pressed.The grumpy man's frown deepened. "Lucian," the grumpy man came closer, "Are you okay?"I shrugged, "I guess that's my name then since no one answered my question. What are we doing here? Rather, what am I doing here? Is this all part of Reine's plan? She brought me here?"Mr Grumpy moved closer, pulling me into a hug before I could say Jack."What are you doing?" I grumbled against his chest, "Why are you touching me, and where the hell is Reine?" I pushed him away, feeling hit all over."Are you joking, Lucian? Is this some kind of prank? I just got you back, I can't lose you again! Is this you playing with my emotions?"I scoffed at him in disbelief, "And why the hell would I care about you or your feelings? Who are you anyway?"Edyrm stepped forward, "You really don't know him?"I rolled my eyes, already feeling annoyed, "Am I supposed to know him? Just because I know you, Edyrm, doesn't mean I k

The masked man comes unmasked

LUCIAN "What's next?" Vulwin asked, looking around. Some guards were scattered about in the throne room, mourning the loss of their king."What's next?" Mr Grumpy repeated, snapping, "Going home, and hope against all odds that my mate gets back his memory about me,"I scoffed at him, "Did I hit my head, or did you hit yours because I'm sure as heck that I can't be in a relationship with you. How did I even get acquainted with you in the first place?"I turned to Edyrm, "When I mentioned I was dating this man, didn't y'all take me for a mental check-up? Who are my friends?""Like you have any control over your feelings.." Vulwin rolled his eyes."But then.... him?" I countered. "Come on, Lucian, it's not in your best interest to hurt my feelings." Mr Grumpy said."Like I care about your feelings," I muttered under my breath. "I'm not going anywhere with you.""Your friends are back home. Don't you want to see them and give them an earful about letting you get involved with me?""

I won, loser

LUCIAN Luke's eyes flashed, "What's so special about you anyway?""What did I do to you, Luke?""Pick up the sword Elias, or I swear to the goddess, I'll drive my sword into Lucian's heart because I know you have no regard for yours."Mr Grumpy glanced at me, gritting his teeth hard against each other and picked up the sword. "Why did you get to be the King anyway?' Luke asked, swinging the sword aimlessly as he spoke , his eyes on Mr Grumpy.""Lucian?" Edyrm whispered, "When I give the signal, run as heck away from here like your life depends on it,""What about you?""I'll be behind you.""And him?" I nodded towards Elias, "He'll find his way out if here eventually. They are brothers, let them fight or out. We are to get to safety first.""Oh..." I muttered, "okay,""I was always better than you in everything. I was the better brother. I was gentle, sweet, kind, attentive, everything you'll ever dream of becoming, where as, you are cold, uncaring, and cruel, yet you were made

A chance

LUCIAN I moved.I was unstuck!Edyrm was practically frozen by my side."No running then?" I asked quietly. "How did he die so fast?" Vulwin asked, settling beside me."Poison. The knife was poisoned." Edyrm whispered. Eliass was shaking his brother's body vigorously as if that would bring him back. "How many deaths today?" Vulwin whispered. "Four." Edyrm answered, "It's just us."Elias let out a growl that echoed and resounded through the room."What is next? What do I do?" I asked no one in particular. "Has it been an hour since the King's death?" Edyrm suddenly asked.Vulwin shook his head.Edyrm scrambled to his feet and ran to that King's dead body, placing his hands above the King's eyes and chest."What crazy thing is he doing now?""Taking the King's powers. It can't just go to waste and dissipate into nothing. I can still get half of his powers."I shook my head and returned my gaze to Elias, who was still holding his brother's dead body and staring into nothingness.

Unmarked

**** Kingdom of Kuragari****The throne room smelled of blood.That was the first thing Edyrm noticed when he stepped through the doors later in the evening, before the bodies, overturned furniture, the long dark smear across the stone floor where someone had been dragged and then abandoned when the dragging stopped mattering. The smell hit him first, thick and coppery.He stood in the doorway for a moment and simply looked.The throne room was vast with high ceilings, black stone, the particular architectural arrogance of a space designed to make the person standing at its center feel both powerful and alone. In the light of the remaining torches, which had burned low and sullen through what had happened here, a chair overturned near the wall, shattered glasses everywhere, then the bodies of which only two were important. Edyrm exhaled slowly through his nose and stepped inside.Behind him, Vulwin came to stand beside him and looked at the room with the same still assessment, and

Voting

**** Kingdom of Kuragari*****The meeting was called for midday.Edyrm sent the summons himself.The throne room by midday. All senior officials, and no exceptions.He stood at the window of his room, and he looked out at the grounds the he turned away softly, letting Vulwi help him with dressing up.By the time he arrived at the throne room, he was fully composed. He pushed open the doors of the throne room.Every seat was filled.He was pleased. They were all there, every significant Dark Elf in the kingdom who could be summoned. Lords of the territories, silver-haired and sharp-faced, with the particular bearing of men who had held regional power for so long they had forgotten it was given to them. The high council members, six of them, ranged along the left side of the table.The military commanders. three women and two men, all carrying themselves with the tight and controlled readiness of people who have spent the last eighteen hours waiting for orders that hadn't come. T

A royal funeral

LUCIAN I had never attended a royal burial before, or maybe I had? But I doubt it.I had known grief before this that I was sure, but I had never stood in a place like this.The royal cemetery of the Lycan kingdom sat at the outskirts of the palace grounds, where the manicured lawns gave way to something older and wilder, a sprawling grove of black-barked trees that had no name I knew, their branches high and interlocking overhead, their roots surfacing through the earth like the backs of submerged creatures. The graves here were set into the ground with flat stones of dark granite, names carved deep and without flourish, dates below them. Generation after generation of Elias's bloodline, pressed into this particular soil, returned to this particular darkness.It was still very early morning as I walked with the others, and I did not speak.They had prepared the bodies through the night.I knew this only because I had been awake through most of it, sitting by the window of the room

Mass burial

LUCIAN Me?? I was the Luna?Elias was the Lycan King. He claimed I was his mate, which meant I was the Luna?Then, for Luke, they came one by one, and then in small groups, and then sometimes not in groups at all but simply one lone figure stepping forward from the crowd with something in their face that said they had been carrying this particular thing since they heard the news and needed somewhere to put it.An older pack member, broad-shouldered, grey at the temples, with the bearing of a man who had spent his life in service to the royal house, stepped forward and said, simply, that Luke had once spent an entire afternoon teaching his youngest son to track in the forest, unasked, because he had noticed the boy struggling and had the time and chose to spend it there. "He didn't tell anyone," the man said. "My son told me. Beta Luke never mentioned it once."A woman who had the look of a healer said that Luke had come to her once with a wound he hadn't wanted the palace physicians

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