Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

King Novel 60

Chapter 60

The scent of state cigarettes and cheap perfume clings to the hallway like a bad fucking omen.

My boots in against the cracked tiles x 1 mene, exch step heavier than the last. The fluorescent lights overhead flicker- bizzing like a dying mequitting everything in this sickly, yellow glow. The whole building smells like piss and regret. t's the kind of place where dreams go to choke themselves ont in a corner.

Perfect place to chase down a fucking ghone.

My fingers tighten around the strap of my bag skang over my shoulder, the weight of the burner phone inside pressing against my ribe Three weeks. Three fucking weeks of dead ends, classified files, and chasing shadows through back alleys. Three weeks since I walked out of that shitty apartment, leaving Zoe behind with nothing but a goddamn receipt and a promise I knew I'd break

I thought I'd find something by now.

I've been to places where newspapers have said that the Alpha King now has visited with bad intentions.

But instead, I'm losing my goddamn mind.

I know he's out there. I feel it in my fucking bones. Every time I close my eyes, I see him-those forest green eyes staring straight through me, mouth on mine, hand wrapped around my throat like he owned every broken piece of me. And maybe he did.

Maybe he still fucking does.

I shove the thought down where it belongs and keep moving.

Third floor. Room 306.

The tip I bought off some greasy little beta with a gambling debt told me this guy might have something on the Imperial Pack before, Old shit. Before the attack. Before everything went to hell and the world buried the case like they never existed. It's a long shot-like everything I've been chasing-but I'm too far in to turn back now.

I stop outside the door, pressing my palm flat against the peeling wood. My heart's already hammering in my chest, but I force myself to breathe through it.

No more waiting

No more hiding.

I knock twice.

Nothing.

I glance down the hallway-empty. Just flickering lights and peeling walls. My pulse picks up, the little voice in the back of my head hissing that I should fucking leave. But I don't. Because if I've learned anything in the last three weeks, it's that nothing worth knowing comes easy.

If I want to know what connection my parents had with the Imperial Pack, this is just one of the easy ways to do so.

I knock again, harder this time.

Still nothing.

"Fuck it."

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I'm shaking until I hear the floorboard creak

whip around-knife already in my hand-blade glinting under the weak

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shifts. Cold.

when

out of sight. But I can't see shit. My pulse thunders in my ears, drowning out the sound of my own

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back toward the door, knife still clutched tight in my

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Fucking paranoia.

Or maybe not.

photo off the desk and shove it into

the Imperial Pack's Attack out of

is proof. A crack in the

to pry it wide

room, locking the door behind

hallway, the hairs on the

one floor

Slow.

Deliberate.

don't wait to find out who the fuck

of my chest. Cold air slaps me in the face, burning my lungs. I keep moving-tucking my hands deep into my jacket pockets, head down,

three blocks away, tucked into the shadows of a busted payphone booth. My hands are shaking as I pull the

is the kind of suffocating silence that makes me want

his knuckles have gone bone white. Zoe's in the backseat,

that, I know for

been pushing yourself too hard."

through the quiet, rough and low. I flick my eyes to him, barely turning my

"Not your concern, Boss."

eyes fixed on the road. "Actually, it is. You're

is calm, but there's something under it-something... possessive. I fucking

from the backseat. "I don't know if you two hate

messed-up way of

snaps around to glare

fingers flex

holding something back.

drags on, the tension thick enough to choke

of us, the silence

noose.

parks outside our building, kills the engine,

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I don't either.

sit here and stare at the

on the

head tilting against the seat. "Why are you doing

yourself?"

hits like a

force out a laugh, sharp and hollow.

that's only gonna

against my chest so hard I swear he

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straight through me when I've

everything buried under sarcasm and

shove the door open without answering, slamming it behind

my apartment, the overhead light flickers and dies the second I

"Perfect"

into furniture and cursing under my

spare bulb somewhere-I just

knock rattles the

hopeless," Liam mutters the second I crack it open. He's holding a

fucking ladder like some overgrown

"Fuck off."

steps inside without

wall while he sets up the ladder