Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

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Chapter 24

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The rain starts as a light drizzle, but within seconds, it's pounding against the balcony like a hundred tiny hammers.

I can barely see through the downpour, but my eyes remain locked on the whip below, the leather coiled like a venomous snake.

Why is the headmaid's whip... on the ground? Seh treasures that a lot considering it's her source of superiority among the

lower ranks.

Beside me, Kallias is eerily quiet. His earlier aggression towards me has been replaced with a strange stillness, as though he's working through a thousand emotions and coming up blank by what he's seeing.

His lips are still smeared with blood from my slap, and if I wasn't so on edge, I'd take satisfaction in it.

The silence stretches, broken only by the rhythmic drum of rain. And then-

A scream.

A gut-wrenching scream.

It cuts through the storm-a blade, high-pitched and desperate. My head snaps toward the direction of the sound, my heart lurching into my throat. What the fuck was that?

Kallias stiffens beside me, his face paling.

"Shit," I mutter, already moving toward the door. Kallias follows behind me, his steps hesitant at first, but soon we're both sprinting back inside.

The party is in chaos. Omegas are clinging to one another, whispering frantically, while the guests-high-ranking Alphas, Betas, and their delegates-are frozen mid-drink, their eyes wide and fixed on something just beyond the open front doors of the packhouse.

I follow their stares, searching through the crowd, while my pulse raced a hundred beats per minute. The sound of thunder booms overhead, rattling the windows, as I reach the edge of the railing, gripping it tightly, my knuckles begin to turn white.

A woman stands at the entrance adorned with the same flowers I brought from the market, her elegant gown is soaked and clinging to her trembling frame. She's screaming, pointing outside wearing her face with a mask of terror.

"What the hell is going on?" Kallias demands to the crowd, his voice sharp and commanding.

No one answers. Not even being the Alpha's son. They're too busy staring at whoever's outside. Or what...

I rush to the railing, my hands gripping the polished wood as I peer out into the storm. The rain is relentless, sheets of water pouring down, but even through the downpour, I see her.

Someone or something-is crawling toward the packhouse.

Oh my God.

At first, it doesn't register. The figure is barely recognizable, a tattered silhouette against the muddy ground. But as the f drags itself closer, the flickering porch lights illuminate her face, and my stomach lurches. My heart claws its way out of ribs and through my chest at the gore image I'm seeing right now.

The head maid.

Or what's left of her.

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Her body is a mess of blood and torn flesh, her once pristine uniform is now unrecognizable—tattered and ripped. One of her hands is gone-completely gone- leaving a bloody, jagged stump that gushes with every agonizing inch she crawls forward.

"Help me!" she screams, her voice raw and ragged. "Please! Someone help me!" The crowd gasps, recoiling as if her pain is contagious.

This is straight our of hell... As if someone dragged up a soul from the torturing chambers.

"Jesus Christ..."I murmur under my breath, my eyes wide with horror.

She drags herself closer, her remaining fingers and dirty nails clawing at the muddy ground, leaving streaks of red in her wake. My legs feel like they're locked

the floor as I watch her crawl toward the

fuck happened to her?" someone mutters behind me, their voice

No one answers.

The head maid finally reaches the edge of the porch, her broken body illuminated

then the

it's just the shadows shifting, the trees bending under the heavy of the

But no. Something's there.

A wolf.

wolf. This one is massive, its silhouette hulking and monstrous

it's no wolf. It's

light. It's too big, too imposing to be anything but terrifying. The head maid sees it too as she

turning to us in haste, scrambling to

get

lunges, its jaws snapping around her leg with a sickening crunch of her bone. "Ah!" Her scream is unlike anything I've ever heard-raw, guttural, and filled

sharp teeth dug into the head maid's body, off the porch of help and back into the

beast is telling everyone in the room its not finished

disappears into the darkness, taking the head

own two eyes in fear or helping. "Argh! No!" The sound

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through everyone as I feel a bond inside of me breaking, h

She's dead.

sick. The metallic taste of bile rises in my throat as I clutch the railing, my kraukles turning white hoovad me, the pack is deathly silent,

She doesn't.

that returns is

And it's deafening.

floor

alert and useless, they're too

stare into the distant forest where

Far too late indeed.

flood the clearing, their weapons drawn

into the haunting quiet of the woods, leaving nothing but the sound

"What happened now?"

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"She's-she's gone...

I'm moving until I'm pressing against the nearest window, craning my neck to see past the rivulets of rain streaming down the glass. My breath fogs up the pane as my eyes dart wildly, searching for something-anything-that makes sense of what I

then I see

The wolf. The beast.

hulking frame lurks just beyond the tree line, shrouded

it's the eyes that

Red. Glowing.

pierce through the darkness, locking onto mine-a predator sizing up

heart stutters, my fingers gripping the

Fuck.

Crimson eyes.

Crimson fucking eyes.

I've seen those before.

thought claws at the edge of my mind, dark and insistent, but I shove it down, burying it under layers of denial. It's

It's not him.

It can't be him.

my head-the

when I was attacked

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house,

that rope apart. The sheer force of his strength, his

No.

He's too innocent. Too lost with his

Does he?

"Taryn!"

my spiral. I whirl around just in time to see him striding toward me, his jaw tight, his