All Chapters of THE LYCAN KING'S BIGGEST REGRET: HIS CHUBBY MATE: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

The living room smelled like cheap pine cleaner and fear.I sat in my usual spot near the back wall, the one chair nobody ever wanted because the cushion was flat and the armrest wobbled. My stepmother Lily stood at the front of the room next to my father, Beta Albert, and both of them looked like they had swallowed something rotten. The whole Ashford household had been called into this meeting, every cousin, every aunt, every ranked wolf in the family. That never happened unless someone was dying or already dead.My half sister Scarlet sat in the center of the front row with her legs crossed and her long blonde hair swept over one shoulder like she was posing for a magazine cover. She kept checking her phone and sighing every few seconds, annoyed that this meeting was cutting into her evening plans. I pulled my oversized hoodie tighter around my chubby frame and tried to make myself smaller, which was something I had gotten very good at over the past twelve years."There is no easy w

The Alpha's office smelled like cedar wood and broken things.I stepped through the door and immediately felt the crunch of shattered ceramic beneath my borrowed heels. Pieces of plates and cups were scattered across the hardwood floor like someone had swept an entire table clean in a fit of rage. The breakfast spread that had been carefully prepared for the King's visit was smeared across the ground in a mess of crushed pastries and spilled juice.But the mess on the floor was nothing compared to what was sitting in my father's chair.Xavier Kane, the Lycan King, occupied the seat like he had been born in it. He was enormous. Not just tall but broad and carved from something harder than muscle, something that made the oversized leather chair look small beneath him. His dark hair fell across his forehead in a careless way that somehow looked intentional, and his jaw was sharp enough to cut steel. But it was his eyes that stopped my heart. Molten gold, burning and ancient, like staring