Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

King Novel 56

Chapter 56

Chapter 56

The name flashing on my phone screen is a punch straight to the gut.

Kallias Morrigan.

I stare at it like the damn thing is going to explode.

I haven't heard from him since I left Riverstone.

Well, we did got off the wrong footing and I don't remember giving him my phone number when I left.

Not a single call. Not a single text. Not even a half-assed apology buried under some pathetic excuse like "I was just giving you space"-because we both know he's not that considerate.

Should I answer it? We were good when I left.

Buut he helped Enoch leave. No, he made him leave..

I still holda huge grudge for him doing that even if I was all smiles when he helped me move back then.

The smart thing would be to ignore him. Block the number. Toss the phone out the fucking window.

But some sick, masochistic part of me still hits Answer.

I press the phone to my ear, forcing my voice into something steady and

indifferent. Like his name popping up doesn't have my heart hammering against my ribs.

"Kallias?"

A beat of silence. Long enough to make me wonder if this is a mistake- some

Then his voice spills through the line, low and rough.

"Hey, Taryn."

pocket dial or cruel cosmic glitch.

I close my eyes, biting down hard on the inside of my cheek. Fuck him for still sounding the same-like cigarette smoke clinging to leather jackets and bad decisions. Like the boy who used to press his lips to mine under moonlit treelines before he ripped my heart out of my chest and tossed it to the wolves.

My fingers tighten around the phone.

"Why are you calling me?"

More silence. Then...

"I wanted to check in."

A laugh punches out of me before I can stop it-sharp and bitter.

"Bullshit."

Kallias has never checked in on anyone but himself in his entire damn life.

I hear him exhale through the receiver, like he's already regretting dialing my number. Good. Join the club, asshole.

"You're in the Free City now," he mutters, like that explains anything.

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"No shit."

"Alone."

I blink, caught off guard by the way his voice drops-low, cautious.

"I can handle myself," I snap.

He knows that better than anyone. He's the one who made sure I learned how to fight when the other Omegas used to corner me in the packhouse hallways-long before he decided I wasn't worth fighting for anymore.

be careful... with

I freeze.

the fuck is

against my wrists. Every

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measured, like he's debating whether

fucking mess he made out

he's calling me out of nowhere... right when rumors about the Lycan King start swirling through the Free City

against my skin. Enoch's necklace. The only piece

He's coming here.

They're all coming here.

go."

"Taryn-"

hang up before he can finish whatever cryptic

on me.

it's going to start hissing secrets through the speaker.

already a madhouse by the time I drag myself in-phones ringing,

me over, bouncing in her chair like a puppy someone accidentally slipped an

eyes wide with barely

to scrape the sleep and

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panic coiling hot and fast

Zoe nidges me.

forcing my expression

"Just nerves."

whare how w

Lie.

I can't fucking breathe.

time to fall apart. Not now.

me to crack so he can ship my ass back to filing coffee

and march toward his office

open behind

the far end of the floor-overlooking the whole newsroom like some smug little king

glances up when I

"Close the door."

I do.

"Sit"

I don't

twitches-half amused, half

Calculating.

He sees me.

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just the washed-up Omega everyone at Riverstone used

trying to keep her head down and pay her

A threat.

fold my

to

dead-on.