All Chapters of AUCTIONED TO THE LYCAN KING: Chapter 141 - Chapter 150

OLIVIAThree hours earlier.I stood on the southern wall, watching the horizon darken with approaching torches.My shoulder throbbed where the healer had stitched the wound, but I ignored it. Pain was something I had learned to live with since the night Blue Moon fell."How many do you think?" Marcus asked beside me. He was young, barely eighteen, one of the survivors who had never held a sword before coming here."Too many," I said honestly. "But we hold this wall anyway."He swallowed hard, his knuckles white on his weapon. "I am scared.""Good. Fear keeps you sharp." I looked down the line at the other Blue Moon survivors. Forty-three faces, most of them showing the same terror Marcus felt. "Listen to me. All of you."They turned, their attention fixing on me."We are not soldiers. We are bakers and farmers and teachers. We lost everything when Damien destroyed our pack. Our homes. Our families. Everything."A few heads bowed. Some eyes filled with tears."But we are still here," I

MAYA The corridor fell into absolute silence.Damien leaned against the wall, blood dripping steadily from his wounds onto the marble floor. His eyes held mine with an intensity that made my skin crawl."You are lying," Asher said flatly, his sword still raised. "You want to get close to her. To finish what you started.""If I wanted her dead, I would have let Gabriel take her." Damien's laugh was bitter and wet. "Trust me, Lycan King, killing Maya is the last thing I want.""Then what do you want?""Redemption." The word hung in the air between us. "And to stop my brother from destroying everything."I stepped forward, ignoring Asher's sharp intake of breath. "You said you saw the first Alpha Queen. How? She disappeared three hundred years ago.""Disappeared. Not died." Damien's eyes gleamed with something like madness. "My family has guarded that secret for generations. The Moon Goddess bloodline. How to awaken it. How to control it. How to weaponize it."My stomach turned. "Is tha

DAMIENPain had become my constant companion.Every step sent fire through my chest where Gabriel's blade had pierced between my ribs. Every breath felt like drowning. The wolfsbane he had coated the weapon with was slowly eating through my system, blackening my veins.I should have been dead hours ago.But I was not ready to die. Not yet."My lord, you need to rest." Marcus, one of the few fighters still loyal to me, tried to steady me as I stumbled. "You have lost too much blood.""I am fine.""You are dying.""Then I will die after I finish this." I pushed his hand away and kept walking through the ruins of what had been my forward camp.Bodies littered the ground. My soldiers, cut down by Gabriel's forces when he had turned on me. The betrayal still burned, though I suppose I had no right to be surprised.Gabriel had always been ambitious. I had just been too blind to see how far he would go."Where are we going?" Marcus asked."The palace."He stopped walking. "My lord, that is s

MAYAThe blade drank deeply of my power, and I felt myself dimming from the inside out.Gabriel's face twisted with triumph as green light crawled up the knife toward the hilt. My blood glowed on the blade, transforming into pure energy that fed into him."Yes," he breathed. "I can feel it. The power of the Moon Goddess herself."His eyes began to glow with stolen silver light.But something was wrong.The power was not flowing smoothly. It stuttered and sparked, fighting against him."What..." Gabriel looked down at the blade, confusion replacing his triumph. "Why is it not..."I smiled through the pain. "Because you do not understand what this power really is."The green light flickered."It is not just strength or magic," I continued, forcing myself to stand despite the agony. "It is connection. Love. Sacrifice. Everything you have never felt.""Shut up." Gabriel gripped the blade tighter, trying to force more power through. "It belongs to me now. My family hunted for this. Died fo

ETHANTwo hours earlier.The antidote burned through my veins, fighting against the wolfsbane that had nearly killed me.I should have been in the medical wing, recovering under the healers' watchful eyes.Instead, I was mounted on a horse, leading twelve of our fastest riders through the forest.Because Gabriel had escaped."Commander, you should not be riding in your condition," Marcus said beside me, his young face creased with worry. "The healers said...""The healers can lecture me when we get back." I urged my horse faster through the trees. "Gabriel knows too much. About the binding stones. About Maya's bloodline. About our defenses. We cannot let him reach another pack.""He has at least a thirty minute head start. We might not catch him.""Then we ride faster."The forest blurred past us, branches whipping at our faces. My wounded body screamed in protest with every jarring stride, but I pushed through the pain.Gabriel could not escape. Not after everything he had done."The