Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

Chapter 59

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I should feel on top of the fucking world right now.

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I just landed my first official byline-the kind of shit most interns would sell their souls for-and yet here I am... pacing my shitty apartment like a fucking lunatic, chain-smoking mental breakdowns in the form of stale gas station nicotine gum.

Because the one story that could make my entire carcer-the one I've been chasing my whole goddamn life-

Is him.

The Alpha King.

And his fiance.

The faceless ghost who clawed his way back from death.

The same man who left me behind in the middle of the night with nothing but a cheap silver chain hanging around my neck.

Enoch fucking Blackwell.

The man I babysitted.

My murderer.

I grind the gum harder between my molars, the bitter taste burning the roof of my mouth.

I wish I could hate him.

I wish I could rip this necklace off and throw it into the gutter where it fucking belongs-pretend like I didn't spend the last six months sleeping with it tucked under my pillow.

But I can't.

Because no matter how much I want to carve him out of me-he's still there.

Lodged under my skin like a rusted nail.

But he's about to get married, Taryn.

I keep telling myself that ever since I saw that article and yet I can't seem to wrap my head around it. Do I even have the right to feel like this?

I stare down at the half-empty coffee cup in my hand, the logo smudged from my sweaty grip. Zoe's voice drifts in from the bathroom, humming some shitty pop song while she curls her hair.

We're in my apartment right now, planning to have the day to ourselves.

"I still can't believe Liam actually gave you the gig."

"Me neither," I mutter, tapping the rim of the cup against my bottom lip.

It's been three days since that meeting. Three days since I walked out of his office

with shaking hands and the taste of victo still sharp on my tongue.

And yet the more I dig into the Alpha King...

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The less I want to find.

Every article, every headline-it's the same recycled propaganda bullshit.

Mysterious new ruler rises from the ashes.

A savior to the packs.

king about to

him like some fucking war hero-this

But I know better.

kind

against the cabin wall-when his fingers wrapped around my throat like he was trying to memorize the

I should've run.

locked the door behind him and

I begged him

is open on the kitchen counter-tabs stacked

house of cards ready to

Blackwell's Rise

Imperial Pack

Unsolved Disappearances

Unknown Heir Rumors

The Alpha King's Fiancee.

cursor blinks in

fingers hover over the

don't even know what I'm looking

kind of fucked-up proof that

find his name buried under some

Dead.

Gone.

fucking

ugly twist-like the traitorous little bitch

out of the bathroom, flipping her hair over one shoulder.

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the ripped jeans and crop

tits into.

you'd fuck a minor celebrity

winks at herself in the mirror, then swipes my untouched coffee

this whole Alpha King investigation thing, by

"Noted."

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serious, T. People don't dig into him

everywhere-spies

my fingers through my tangled

If he really had spies everywhere, they'd have killed me years

definitely happened back in the pack. I didn't mean for it to but it hit Kallias' crotch when

"You're not funny."

"I'm fucking hilarious."

through the apartment, cutting

to

groans, stomping

another delivery from that weird guy

"It's for me."

already know who it is before she even presses

downstairs isn't marked. No

long enough to

found.

the middle of my floor with documents spread out

edges and black-and-white photos stapled to crisp typewritten reports. It was on the archive I was able to access thanks

is standard council shit-border

at

There's a crest.

on the

a crown of jagged thorns

cold sweat prickling

seen that symbol before-long before I ever found

woods.

Flash.

father's voice in

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