The Lycan King's Secret Heirs のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 161 - チャプター 170

Daisy I didn't sleep.Not really.I closed my eyes sometime after midnight, but sleep never came properly. Every time I drifted off, I saw the photograph again.Thane and Rissa standing outside the café and beneath them, written in dark ink:FOUND YOU.I had turned the photograph over so many times during the night that the edges had started to soften beneath my fingers.I had stared at the words until they blurred, then I had convinced myself there had to be another explanation.Someone wanted to scare me, someone connected to the harbor acquisition had taken it. Or maybe one of Caspian's people had followed me, maybe someone had recognized me, maybe…..I had run out of maybes sometime around four in the morning, because none of them explained the one thing that terrified me most.The photograph hadn't been of me. It had been of my children.I stared at the ceiling until dawn began to seep through the curtains, and one thought kept circling through my head.Someone had been watch

Daisy I packed faster than I'd ever packed in my life.Clothes went into the suitcase without being folded and the twins' shoes were thrown into a separate bag.I grabbed their medicines, birth certificates, a few changes of clothes, some cash and anything else I could think of that we couldn't replace.“Mama, where are we going?” Thane asked. “Somewhere safe.” the answer slid past my lips without thinking. “Where?” Thane stood beside my bed, watching me with those dark, observant eyes.“I don't know yet.” A part of me hated admitting that, but I knew better than to not be honest with him. “Then how do you know it's safe?” he asked, and this time, I stopped.Of course he'd ask that.“Thane.’ I forced myself to continue packing. “Because it won't be here.”Rissa, on the other hand, sat quietly on the edge of her bed, hugging her little stuffed rabbit against her chest.She hadn't said much since I'd told them we were leaving and that worried me more than Thane's questions.Rissa

Daisy By the time we reached the carnival, I had almost forgotten why I was supposed to be afraid.Almost.The moment we stepped through the entrance, Rissa grabbed my hand.“Mama! Look!” She squealed as she pointed toward a giant spinning ride covered in colored lights.“I see it.” I smiled.“No, look!” She grinned. “I am looking.”“It’s so pretty!” She was bouncing on her feet now, and I couldn't help but laugh. “It is.”“Mama.” Thane was already staring in the opposite direction.I followed his gaze and there was a ring-toss booth.Of course.“You want to play that?” I asked. “Yes.” He nodded.“You don't even know what the prize is.” I pointed. “I'll pick one after I win.”“You're very confident.” I laughed.“I practice.”“You practice ring toss?” I raised an eyebrow. “No.” He shrugged. “I practice winning.”“That's what he always says.” Rissa giggled while I stared at him. “And does it work?”“Sometimes.” Rissa shrugged. “Most times.” Thane gave her a look.“Come on, c

Daisy The world around me had become noise.Music blared from somewhere behind us, people were shouting about the damaged ride, and carnival workers were dragging pieces of broken wood away from the crowd while someone yelled for everyone to move back, but I heard none of it properly.All I could hear was my own heartbeat and the fact that Thane was standing between Caspian and me.After five years of believing I would never see him again, five years of convincing myself that the man I had loved had become nothing more than a memory I had to bury alongside everything else I had lost.And now he was standing in front of me, holding my son.His son, our son. I couldn't breathe while Thane seemed completely unaware of the storm happening inside me. He looked between us with the same curious expression he always wore whenever adults behaved strangely.Caspian, however, wasn't looking at him anymore. He was looking at me, but not casually, and not the way he had looked at me across th

Daisy The moment I saw the words on the mirror, I stopped thinking.I didn't investigate, I didn't check the closet and I didn't search beneath the bed or wonder whether whoever had written the message was still inside the room.I was a mother.Someone had entered our room while my children slept and that was all I needed to know.I turned away from the mirror, ran and shoved the bathroom door open so hard it slammed against the wall.“Thane. Rissa. Wake up.” Neither of them moved and my heart slammed against my ribs. “Wake up.”I crossed the room and shook Thane's shoulder.“Mama?” His eyes opened slowly.“Get dressed.” I let out immediately. “What?” He blinked at me.“Get dressed.”“Mama, what happened?” Rissa stirred beside him, rubbing her eyes.“We're leaving.”“Mama,” Thane pushed himself upright. “But it's night.”“I know.”“Then why are we leaving?” His little face creased with confusion. “Where are we going?”“Somewhere else.”“Now?”“Yes.” I was already moving. “Now.”