All Chapters of The Lycan King's Secret Heirs : Chapter 131 - Chapter 140

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One Hundred and Thirty Four

Daisy. The days blurred together until I could no longer remember whether it had been two or three since the doctor had been called away.And worse? Every morning began the same way.I woke before dawn, I rushed to the bathroom and I threw up until there was nothing left.By the time I managed to stand upright again, my legs trembled so badly I usually had to lean against the sink just to remain standing."It's getting worse," I whispered to my reflection one morning.The pale woman staring back at me looked nothing like herself.Dark circles had settled beneath my eyes, my cheeks had lost their color, and every time I caught myself smiling at the thought of the tiny life growing inside me, another wave of nausea followed as though determined to remind me how fragile my secret really was."You really are making yourself known." My hand drifted over my stomach as a tiny laugh escaped me, but it quickly dissolved into another groan."I love you," I murmured softly. "But you could be

One Hundred and Thirty Five

Caspian I couldn't stop seeing it. No matter how many times I closed my eyes and no matter how many times I told myself there had to be an explanation.It was still there.Daisy, Octavian, on the same bed.The image replayed over and over until it felt carved into the inside of my skull. I paced the length of my study for what must have been the hundredth time since leaving that room, but it did nothing to help. Instead, I went to one end, I turned back to the other end, before turning again. My fists opened and closed at my sides and it took everything in me to not smash something right now. Added everything I'd been through, I had come home with hope burning inside me. For the first time in weeks, I hadn't been carrying bad news.Professor Hawthorne's discovery had changed everything. Someone had altered the legislation and someone had manipulated the law itself.We weren't chasing a fantasy anymore, we had evidence. Real evidence that could upturn whatever Yvie had up her sle

One Hundred and Thirty Six

Caspian I had always believed anger clouded judgment and that was why I refused to make decisions while I was furious.Hours earlier, I had nearly forgotten that rule. Now, as the silence settled over my study once more, I forced myself to do the one thing I hated most.Think.I lowered myself into the chair behind my desk and closed my eyes and the image returned immediately.I saw Daisy and Octavian, both sprawled on the bed. My jaw tightened, but this time I pushed past the anger instead of surrendering to it and as the seconds ticked by, I asked myself one question.Just one.Why? Why would Daisy do something like that?The answer didn't come, because there wasn't one. Everything I knew about her stood against it, then another question followed.Why would Octavian?I almost laughed.If there was one man in this house who respected boundaries to a fault, it was my brother. He would rather argue with the entire council than betray me.So why?Nothing. I didn't have an answer an

One Hundred and Thirty Seven

Daisy The room suddenly felt too small, and worse, I had crossed it so many times that I was certain I could walk it blindfolded. I went from the window to the door, to the fireplace, then to the bed, and then back again.My footsteps had become a rhythm all of their own, one that refused to stop because the moment I stood still, my thoughts caught up with me.Nothing made sense, not one single part of it. I remembered drinking tea with Octavian, I remembered trying to tell him about the baby, I remembered the room spinning, and then, nothing.Absolutely nothing.The next thing I knew, I had opened my eyes to find Caspian standing in the doorway while Octavian lay naked beside me.A shudder ran through my entire body at the mere thought of it. "No..." I whispered for what felt like the hundredth time. I pressed trembling fingers against my temples. "Think."I squeezed my eyes shut as I thought…Had someone come into the room? Had I heard voices? Had someone touched me?Anything, a

One Hundred and Thirty Eight

Caspian Two days, that was how long I waited, not because I wanted to, but because I had to.The physician had insisted Octavian spend the first day resting. Whatever had happened to him had left him with blinding headaches, spells of dizziness and an exhaustion that refused to lift.Pushing him before he had recovered would accomplish nothing, so I waited.It was the longest two days of my life, because not once during that time did I go near Daisy.More than once I found myself standing halfway down the corridor that led to her room before forcing myself to turn around.I wanted to see her, I wanted to hear her voice and I wanted to ask her a hundred questions. Instead, I needed facts first.Emotion had already nearly cost me once, and I refused to let it happen again.By the third morning, Octavian looked more like himself, not completely, but enough.He was already waiting when I entered his study, standing beside the window with a mug of black coffee cradled between both hands

One Hundred and Thirty Nine

Caspian I stared at the tiny shard of porcelain resting against my fingertips. It looked insignificant, ridiculously so, but I knew better. A fragment no larger than my thumbnail had somehow become the most important thing in the room.“So.”Octavian remained standing near the doorway, his eyes fixed on it. "You really think that's what made us lose consciousness?""I don't know." The answer frustrated me as much as it frustrated him. "But I know it wasn't tea."I rubbed the pale residue carefully between my fingers again. The powder had almost no scent. It wasn't sticky, nor did it resemble dried leaves or sugar.It was something else. “So what do we do with this?” Octavian crossed the room, stopping just short of me. "Can anyone even test something this old?"“They can.” I looked down at the shard. “But not here."Silence settled between us as I turned the fragment over once more before another face appeared in my mind.Professor Hawthorne. He could help, not because he was a p

One Hundred and Forty

Daisy Sleep refused to come.No matter how tightly I closed my eyes or how many times I rolled from one side of the bed to the other, my mind refused to quiet itself.The room was dark save for the thin ribbon of moonlight spilling through the curtains. Shadows stretched across the floor, shifting whenever the branches outside stirred in the wind.Usually, I found the silence comforting, but tonight, it felt unbearable. With a frustrated sigh, I threw the blankets aside and sat upright."Wonderful," I muttered into the darkness. "Now I'm talking to myself."The words earned the smallest smile, but even that disappeared almost immediately. I wasn't thinking about the food from dinner, or Lady Zara. I wasn't even thinking about Yvie and her poisonous little visit earlier.I was thinking about Caspian.Again.I rested my elbows on my knees and buried my face in my hands.Why? Why had he done that? He'd looked at me but not with disgust or anger. There wasn't so much as a hint of disa

One Hundred and Forty One

Daisy I barely slept, because every time exhaustion finally dragged me under, I woke again only minutes later, my heart racing as though it already knew something was wrong.By the time the first pale light crept through the curtains, I gave up completely.I sat on the edge of the bed and pressed trembling fingers against my temples."You have to think." The words sounded far steadier than I felt. “Think of what to do next.” The words had barely settled at the back of my mind before another wave of nausea rolled through me. I barely made it to the bathroom before I dropped to my knees.My entire body shook as I emptied what little remained in my stomach. When it finally passed, I stayed exactly where I was, one hand braced against the floor while the other rested instinctively over my abdomen.Tears burned behind my eyes, but I didn't let them fall. "Please..." My voice cracked. "Please be alright."Right now, I hated that I didn't know whether this was ordinary morning sickness

One Hundred and Forty Two

Caspian The note arrived just after breakfast.It wasn't delivered through the usual correspondence tray or handed to one of the household staff. Instead, one of Professor Hawthorne's assistants appeared at the front entrance asking specifically for me.The moment I saw the familiar seal pressed into the folded paper, I dismissed everyone else from the room before breaking it open.There were only four words written across the page.Bring the sample personally.There wasn't any greeting or explanation and no signature beyond the professor's unmistakable initials at the bottom.I read it twice before folding it carefully again.Octavian, who had been watching me from across the study, frowned."That's it?" He asked and I handed him the note.He scanned it quickly before looking back at me."He couldn't have written anything less." He mumbled. "He could have written nothing." I shrugged. “Actually…” Octavian parted his lips to speak, but decided against it last minute. "Fair point

One Hundred and Forty Three

Daisy Thursday.I'd repeated that word to myself so many times over the last two days that it no longer sounded like a day of the week.It sounded like hope.I stood beside my bedroom window long before sunrise, watching the first hints of morning spill across the estate.Today,it had to be today.I rested both hands over my stomach, taking a slow, careful breath. "We're going to be alright."Whether I believed those words or not didn't matter anymore, because I needed them more than ever now. With each passing second, the household slowly came to life around me. Doors opened, footsteps echoed through distant corridors and servants moved from one wing to another as breakfast preparations began.Everything unfolded exactly the way I'd watched it unfold every morning, exactly the way I'd hoped it would. It was probably routine for the others, but for me, it was the best thing I could get this morning. Despite how smoothly things seemed to be going, I waited and that turned out to

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