Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

Chapter 67

The Beta's grip is a fucking vice.

His fingers dig into my arm as he drags me forward. I stumble over the polished stone floors. The moment the heavy iron gates slam shut behind us, I know I've made a mistake.

Not because I regret coming here.

Not because I'm scared.

But because I wasn't ready to see him.

"You're Taryn, aren't you?" He asks as we pass through guards after guards who keep glancing at me with confusion. Great, they probably are all stuck up on how the desperate, crazy woman banging on the gates has now entered.

"Yes, did he tell you that too?" I answer, gritting my teeth. "No, he's way too stubborn for that. Jacob. Beta Jacob. Might as well you know if we keep seeing each other like this." He replies and I roll my eyes.

"You have a death wish, don't you?" Jacob mutters, yanking me forward as if I'm some unruly prisoner.

"If that's what it takes to see him," I snap, jerking my arm free. My skin burns where he touched me, but I don't rub it. I won give him the satisfaction.

I can feel the eyes on me. Guards lined up along the entrance hall. Their postures are tense.

They've probably never seen anyone this fucking stupid before-an Omega demanding entry to the Imperial Pack's stronghold as though I have a goddamn right to be here. Like I belong.

Too late now.

A slow yet loud click of heels echoes against the marble floor. The sound slithers down my spine like a warning before I even turn to look.

It's that bitch.

Lady Celeste Vaelor.

She steps forward with the kind of confidence only a woman born into power can wield-her sleek black dress clinging to her curves, her blonde hair cascading down in carefully arranged waves. The picture of perfection.

And the expression of pure, unfiltered disgust she's directing at me?

Yeah. That makes it even better.

"You really have no shame, do you?" she sneers, lips curling like I'm something rotten that's just washed up at her feet.

I smirk, my adrenaline still riding high from my dramatic entrance. "I could say the same about you. You almost ran me

over."

Celeste scoffs, looking me up and down with an unimpressed flick of her eyes. "Pests tend to throw themselves into places they don't belong."

I take a step closer. Not threatening, not obvious. Just enough to push into her space, to make her feel what I already know- she doesn't intimidate me. "And yet, here I am," I murmur. "Inside, Looks like your Alpha King wants me here."

Her nostrils flare. Just a little. But I catch it.

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"Oh, sweetheart," she purrs, voice laced with the kind of faux sympathy that makes me want to punch her right in her perfect fucking teeth. "Enoch doesn't want anything to do with you."

I arch a brow. “Right. Because he sent his Beta to drag me in?" I tilt my head, studying her. "That tells me all I need to kno

Her smirk vanishes. And then, before I can blink, her hand slices through the air.

The slap lands hard across my cheek. A sharp, stinging burn that blooms across my skin.

A gasp ripples through the guards.

I barely fucking flinch.

Instead, I tilt my head back, slowly dragging my gaze back to hers as I smile. A slow, taunting curve of my lips. "That's all you've got?"

Her pupils dilate. Just for a second.

She expected me to crumble.

She thought that, because I'm an Omega, I'd do what I've been taught to do my entire life-drop my gaze, submit, fucking

cower.

She doesn't realize I've had worse.

"You're pathetic," she hisses, her voice trembling with rage. "A desperate little girl chasing after a man way out of your league."

I don't hesitate

I shove her. Hard.

Celeste stumbles back, her hands flailing for balance. Shock splashes across her face, quickly twisting into pure fury.

The guards move.

But so do I.

not fucking

so tight my nails threaten to break skin. The urge to lunge again is

voice low and edged with warning. The kind that means he's one second away from tossing me over his

stupidly elegant

Oh, fuck off.

even glance at her. Instead, he leans in, close enough that his breath fans against my ear, voice dropping. "If you don't want this to end here, shut up

I blink. "Excuse me?"

elaborate, He just turns, expecting me to obey.. Celeste watches with narrowed eyes, seething as Jacob grips my wrist and drags me away again, deeper into the palace grounds. My feet stumble at first, but I keep up,

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drumbeat in

glare burns into my back,

This isn't over.

I know it.

She knows it.

right there, is

we move past

his grip tight. I take in

best I can-tall arched ceilings, dark stone walls that seem to stretch on endlessly, guards posted at nearly every turn. It's colder here

I shouldn't be here.

yet, I can't

every instinct is screaming at me to keep going.

me I'm close-so fucking close-to what I came here

toward a side hallway, a door creaks open

toward the sound, breath

My pulse stops.

open doorway.

even in

I know that presence.

I've memorized it.

locks up, my heartbeat slamming into my ribs

something cracks.

Enoch.

even think. I

is faster, stepping in

entirely.

Oh, for fuck's sake.

Taryn," he mutters,

tight, a thousand words fighting to claw their way out.

him."

"Not today."

he doesn't even flinch

as if I could set him on fire with

mind.

push past him. I could keep going and demand

to.

the door is

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my desk with a

"ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!"

through the office, yanking every pair of eyes in our

this point, my nervous system has adapted to his

state of pissed-off.

glance at the front page. 'Omega Causes Royal Scandal

a high-resolution photo of me

exhale. "To be fair, I was only

hard I

eyes sharp enough to skin me alive.

he emphasizes.

this is twice now.

decisions.

this company into a political shitstorm, and for

To

closer than anyone

fucking tackled,

you're proud of it or that you think this is

arms. "I have every

thanks."

in front of my desk like a caged wolf. "You really don't, Sinclair. Do you know what happens

low and cutting. "They don't throw tantrums.

strange silence falls