Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

Chapter 79

Chapter 79

"I'm coming back."

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Kallias goes silent. I hear a sharp inhale, followed by a static crackle like he's covering the receiver. Then his voice comes back, tight with disbelief. "Taryn, what the fuck are you talking about?"

I don't answer. I don't have to.

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"You fought like hell to get out of this pack," he presses, his tone edging toward desperation. "You worked your ass off for this job, for your future-"

"I don't have a future here anymore." My own voice doesn't even sound like mine. It's flat. Distant. Like I've already left.

"The hell you don't," Kallias snaps. "You think quitting is gonna fix anything? You think crawling back here is the answer? If you-"

"I'm fired."

The silence this time is heavier.

Then, slower. "What?"

I drag a shaky breath in, gripping Zoe's phone tighter. "They're going to fire me, Kal. I just lost everything."

"Shut up

and turn on the TV," I cut him off, voice flat.

A pause.

Then the sound of rustling, a remote clicking. Silence.

It stretches long enough that I almost think he hung up. But then Kallias exhales sharply. "Shit."

Yeah. No kidding.

"This is bad," he mutters, his voice lower now, serious. "Like, really fucking bad." No shit, Sherlock.

open my mouth to respond, but before I can, Zoe practically yanks me off balance. "Taryn," she hisses, her grip tight around my wrist. "Liam's calling."

I shake her off. "I'm on the phone-"

"Liam. Is. Calling."

The words sink in like a cold slap.

Fuck.

I tighten my grip on Zoe's phone and exhale through my nose, steadying myself. "I gotta go," I say quickly into the receiver.

He exhales hard. "Taryn, you-"

I hang up.

Zoe shoves the phone at me like it's about to explode. "Answer it." Chapter 79

I do.

Zoe is vibrating with barely contained curiosity as she watches me swipe to answer. "Holy fuck, what is happening?" she whisper-screams.

I ignore her.

Press the phone to my ear.

Silence.

For a long, suffocating moment, neither of us speaks.

The tension stretches, thick and suffocating, wrapping around my throat like a noose.

The line is silent for a solid thirty seconds. I can feel Zoe's' stare boring into me, her mouth half-open like she's trying to eavesdrop through sheer willpower.

Then, finally-

through it, deep and even. "This

air leaves

tightens

My breath sucks in.

want to stay in this company?" he continues. "You want access to the archives, to your

tightens around the phone.

it big." His tone leaves

I can use, and you

to ruin his reputation..." I

the media, Taryn.

to

The call clicks off.

stand there, frozen. My heartbeat is

a hand in

I don't move.

I just lost everything.`

Or-

have one last

Fuck.

something at the wall. But I'm

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mind feels like it's buffering, stuck in a loop of what the

lose everything. My job, my shot at the

twists, bile

out of it. "Taryn? What did

response. Lying isn't my strong suit, but

voice is too controlled. Not a lie, but definitely not the

brows knit together.

air shifts. A weight settles in the

Then I smell him.

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His scent-dark woods and power-wraps around me before his arms do. His chest presses against mine, solid and unyielding, caging

I freeze.

back, his breath fanning against my

thing keeping him

uncomfortably

the door

He's too busy branding me with

second the door clicks shut, his grip tightens. "No one will hurt you again," he breathes against my skin, his voice low and edged with something primal. Promise

shudder, the sheer weight of his authority pressing against me like a second skin.

eyes are dark-too dark. No hint of gold, just obsessive,

you do?"

tighten on my shoulders.

stutters. Leave? As in-fuck off into the sunset

Like he's already decided. Like nothing else matters except

And that's dangerous.

on mine. He stiffens under my touch, muscles taut like a wire about to snap. “You're a King now, Enoch. And a King has a

in his eyes. Guilt.

I give a fuck about

any of this fucking matters if

I swallow hard. "Enoch-"

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on me tightens, like he's trying to keep himself from breaking

voice is

shit. If I wasn't-" His breath shudders.

Fuck.

man-this wolf-would rip apart everything for me,

not a safe

force a small, shaky smirk. "How about we don't

just a fraction, his eyes narrowing like he's

"A vacation?"

expression as

Roulette with a loaded

unemployed. Why not?"

A long, heavy silence.

Then-