All Chapters of IN BED WITH THE DEVIL AS HIS SURROGATE : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

LYCAN KING SEBASTIAN Tarry's jaw tightened, but he said nothing."And now your King stands here owning it outright." Casper spread his hands wide, addressing the table. "Which of you still trusts a word that comes out of this palace, when even its own Lord has been caught lying to your faces?"A fresh wave of murmurs broke out, uglier this time, several elders exchanging glances heavy with something closer to betrayal than confusion.‘Tarry lied to the pack members, because it was because I ordered him to.’, I thought. Everything I had told him crossed my mindHe protected this secret with his own name, and now Casper's turned that loyalty into a weapon against both of us at once.That was when it hit.Heat lanced through my chest, sudden and vicious, stealing the breath straight out of my lungs. I recognized it instantly — the same violent pull I'd felt the last time I stepped beyond that door, except sharper now, angrier, like whatever force governed this curse had decided to puni

KATHLEEN" Isn't it?" Casper rounded on him, staring at him like he had said the most funniest thing ever."Or does she simply know she has nothing to fear from these walls because the King himself has made certain of it? Tell me, Tarry — why would a slave risk her life listening at a sealed door unless she already believed herself untouchable here?""Enough." Sebastian's hand came down flat against the table, the sound cracking through the hall. "She came because she was afraid. She must lose her way here ."He was looking at me now. As if he was helpless in front of his pack members. "Afraid for whom?" Casper asked softly, and the question landed like a blade sliding in beneath the ribs. "For the crown, brother? Or for you?"Silence. I felt it pressing down on the whole room, on my chest, on the back of my throat where I was fighting not to make a single sound.That wicked man was trying all he could to set up the King. I was the cause of it. He should face me, not try to drag Seb.

KATHLEENIt was well past midnight when the door to my cell finally opened again.I hadn't slept. I don't think I'd even tried. I'd spent the hours since Casper left replaying every version of what might happen next.Each one worse than the last, until exhaustion and fear had blurred together into something I couldn't separate anymore.Two guards unchained me from the post without a word and marched me down a long corridor lit by the same sickly green torchlight as the courtyard, deeper into the heart of Bloodcast. My legs were stiff, my wrists raw where the iron had sat too long, and still I made myself walk steady, refusing to let them see me stumble.They brought me into a chamber far grander than the bare stone room I'd been held in — a wide bed, dark furs, a hearth burning low. It should have looked warm. Instead something about it made my skin crawl, the way a beautiful room can feel wrong when you know exactly what kind of man claims it.Casper was already waiting, standing b

KATHLEENCasper’s gaze never left mine even as the girl between his thighs worked him with wet, grunt sounds. Even in her own discomfort.The other three women continued touching themselves, soft gasps and the slick slide of fingers filling the room. He tilted his head, studying me.“Tell me,” he said, voice almost lazy, “how does my brother take you? Does he make you beg first, or does he simply claim what’s his whenever the mood strikes? Does he whisper pretty lies while he’s inside you, or is he as silent in bed as he was in that hall?”My jaw clenched. I refused to answer.He smiled like he’d expected the silence. “You can keep quiet. It doesn’t matter. I already know enough.” He shifted his hips, pushing deeper into the girl’s mouth with a quiet breath. “I’m offering you something better than whatever scraps he gives you. Become my surrogate. Carry my blood. In return I’ll spare your life, give you protection, status… more than my brother has ever offered a slave.” His eyes glit

KATHLEENSabastin growled and caught everyone's attention again. "Get him inside!" Alaina's voice cracked across the palace steps. "Before he kills everyone!"It took Fin, Tarry, and four guards to move him, and even then they barely managed it. Sebastian thrashed against every hand that touched him, a low, wounded snarl rolling out of his chest, dark fur spreading over his forearms faster than I could follow.I stayed where I was, at the bottom of the steps, my torn gown clutched at my shoulder, my lip still bleeding. Nobody had told me to follow. Nobody had told me to stay. I was a slave standing in the middle of a royal emergency, and I knew better than to presume I had a place in it.‘But he pushed me away.’ I stared at the spot where he'd stood. ‘He didn't mean it. I know he didn't mean it.’"You." One of the guards stopped beside me, not unkindly. "Lady Alaina wants you inside."My heart stuttered. I followed him in.They had chained Sebastian's wrists to the iron frame of the