The Loyalties We Break Katelyn Taylor Novels & Stories

Kyle grabbed her hands, stopping her, "I swear to you Taylor, nothing is going on between me and Rose. Besides, sweetheart is just an endearment yuuno, It doesn't mean anything is going on between us..." "You don't have to swear Kyle I trust you, it's your personal life leave me out of it", Kate jerked her hands away turning to the double doors, when she felt Kyle grab her hand again. "No, he was trying so hard to win Taylor's trust so he could get his reward, he won't let one stupid mistake ruin it all for him", Kyle thought determinedly. "Taylor please listen to me, you are the only one In my heart and the one I want", Kyle said, pulling Kate closer towards him.

She tightens her arms around me as she begins to slightly rock me back and forth. I close my eyes and rest my head on her shoulder. I try to make my mind go blank, but my thoughts keep going back to the last two people who are stuck together. What am I missing? Wyatt’s voice interrupts my thoughts. “What is wrong? Is Bridget feeling tired too?” Tired? Is Katelyn not feeling well? Even though I want to respond, I don’t. Katelyn hums, “Bridget is upset she can’t find the last two puzzle pieces. She even said she is worthless and a failure. I have tried to tell her she isn’t, but she isn’t listening to me.”

“You will answer. Or Alpha Lancelot will break you.” Her lungs fought for air. But it wasn’t the choking that made her tremble, it was the name. Alpha Lancelot. Fear swallowed her defiance. She shook beneath his grip, eyes wide, pleading. Raymond released her. She dragged desperately for breath, coughing harshly. “Start talking,” he ordered. But even quivering, she still whispered through cracked lips: “You’ll get nothing from me. Give up, Raymond.” His jaw twitched. “Your loyalty is tied somewhere else…” he murmured, stepping away. “But loyalty breaks when bones do.”

How naïve of her to think that one battle would be enough to have won their loyalty. Loyalty was bred, honed, and cultivated over time. “You cannot demand loyalty,” my mother used to tell me, “You must earn it.” I felt heat prickle across my face and down my chest. My eyes flickered instinctually to Killian, who still stood with his Pack. He seemed to take no interest in the growing unrest that Harrison did nothing to quell. No. Ignoring them completely, Killian’s eyes bore into mine, and I held his gaze. He seemed to see right through me. As heat slowly crept up my body, he raised one amused brow, as though he were asking “what did you do?”

Katrina droned on. "The only person who might testify is Cáel, but he won't do it because it will solve nothing. You two will still be dead, no one worthwhile will believe him, and it will result in his eventual relocation. More to the point, his personal sense of loyalty won't allow him to betray me," Katrina was finishing. "None of that will happen though because Cáel is saving the World."

Probably would have tried to help her rebuild her life. This version of me understood that some betrayals can't be forgiven, only managed. When my phone rang twenty minutes later, Killian's name was on the screen. “How did it go?” he asked. “She agreed to help. Full cooperation in exchange for exile instead of destruction.” “And you're comfortable with that outcome?” I think about Harper's desperate face, the tremor in her hands, the way her entire world has collapsed into this one last gamble. “You taught me something,” I told him. “Loyalty isn't just about friendship. It's about choosing the right side.”

I managed to mumble out a thank you, blowing my nose as he drove. I thought about what Taylor had told me about her last girlfriend. How instead of coming out, she'd broken up with her and moved back with her parents. Taylor had been devastated. In her heart, Taylor was a trusting soul, who saw so much beauty in this miserable world. But she'd been failed. Failed by her family, her past loves, and now by me.

It was also their jobs to do the investigations whenever we had a need for it. What the rest of the Council didn’t know was that a good percentage of our Sentinels were loyal to me and me alone. Part of the oaths that they had to take was that they’d never betray the Council in anything that they did. Since their loyalty was to me, and I was a part of the Council, that little fact allowed the bypass so that they didn’t break the oath. The consequence of breaking the oath was instantly being marked as a traitor by the same magic that created our Council tattoos. Then they’d be tortured to find out everything about what they’d done before they were executed. A knock on the door pulled me out o

“You’re no stranger to pain… Biting, right? Your mate likes to leave love bites? Deep enough to make you bleed, I reckon.” Kate growled and gave me a look that reminded me of my momma. “We’re not talking about my love life, and if you continue to mention my mate, I will bring you back to your cell.” I raised my hands in defeat, “alright.” I was just making an observation, but whatever. Kate clanged her hands and took a deep breath, “can you just let me talk and wait for me to ask a question?” “Alright.” Kate nodded and gave me a tight smile, “okay, then. Your soldiers, some of them, are very loyal.”

Katerina frowned at me, watching as my beta walked out, his heart racing against his ribcage as he walked toward his own office. “What the bloody hell was that about?” Katerina asked, her eyes hardening at me. I sighed, cupping her cheek, pulling her to my chest before wrapping my arms around her. “That, my malyshka, was Carter’s test of loyalty” I said, kissing the crown of her head “we’ll see if he gives any information to anyone now”