Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

King Novel 59

Chapter 59

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I rush to the ends of the Mall where the limo has now stopped and my eyes widen

to see the media fucking round it like bees. I swear the fucking universe has a personal vendetta against me

"Alphat

"Your Majesty, look here!" I can't see him at all with all the people flocking around, though I doubt they're going to get a good picture either.

Shit, it was their car.

I swear the unifverse has some personal vendetta against mm.

It's the only explanation at this point.

Out of all the rich assholes speeding around the city, it had to be him.

He's here.

Watching.

Waiting.

The Alpha King himself, lurking behind tinted windows like some goddamn puppet master, pulling strings while I stumble through life trying to piece together the mess he left behind.

I don't know whether to scream or laugh hysterically.

Instead, I flip off the spot where his limo disappeared down the street, muttering under my breath like a lunatic while Zoe drags me toward another overpriced boutique.

"Okay, simmer down, unhinged little gremlin." She snickers, looping her arm through mine. "You're officially one coffee away from committing vehicular homicide."

"I should've thrown the whole fucking cup."

"You did, babe. With terrifying accuracy, might I add."

I huff, brushing dried coffee stains off my shirt.

It's been hours since the limo incident, but my pulse hasn't settled.

I felt him.

Even through layers of glass and steel-

He saw me.

I know he fucking saw me.

But he still drove away.

Like I'm nothing.

Like I never meant anything.

I gnaw the inside of my cheek, swallowing down the bitterness rising in my throat.

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He wants to hide

Fine.

Let him

But I'll be damned if I let him ham me from the shadows.

Not anymore

By the time we finally get back to the spartment, my body feels like it's been wrong cot and hung to dry. Zoe themes herself onto the couch, scrolling through her phone like her entire existerace depends on whatever trathy posip page the doom scrolling

Meanwhile. I pace like a caged animal-staring at the coffee-stained photo of that fucking crest spread out on the kitchen

counter.

That stupid little emblem has been gnawing at my brain for days.

It's not just some crest-I know that now.

It's a thread-

One pull, and the whole goddamn tapestry of my life is about to unravel.

and start digging, but Kallias's warning keeps

careful where you start

I should listen.

has always been my fatal

mother's daughter,

I sketched the crest last night. My hand moves like muscle memory-

how I know

I just know-

this symbol

Not in a book.

some

In my father's hands.

rush prickles

pen tighter as fragments of an old memory

father kneeling before me-his rough hands pressing

come from... and never

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Fuck.

Fuck.

jackknifes against my

clutching the necklace around my

me to

seem

what this crest

I've always known.

Imperial

bloodline that ruled

same bloodline that was slaughtered in one

same bloodline Enoch was

might be

Holy fucking shit.

stagger back, knocking into the table hard enough to

hammering in

This whole time...

into

Into the Riverstone Pack-

Alpha

didn't

been digging into my

"Taryn?"

voice breaks through the panic

over the

"T-"

snap, my heart in my

Something's wrong.

The air feels... off.

Too still.

Too heavy.

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Like someone's watching.

of glowing eyes staring back at me from across the street. But there's nothing there-just the flicker of neon signs and the low buzz of the city

Paranoia is a bitch.

to trust it

inch toward the window, fingers

I

the rooftop across

Still.

Silent.

Watching.

my spine, locking me

He's not a wolf.

feel that

scent doesn't reach me-masked by distance or magic or whatever the

bastards use

But he's there.

Waiting.

Tracking. They've found me.

me like a

away from the window, heart

Fuck.

Fuck.

Fuck.

Okay-

Okay-

Think, Sinclair.