Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

Chapter 105

Chapter 105

There are five hundred things I should be doing right now.

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Like sleeping. Crying. Repacking my bags. Rewriting the Unity Event proposal for next week as I have told the board of directors-I was fucking confident on that speech. Hell, even bleaching my eyeballs after the shitshow that was Enoch's sudden regression into hormonal territory-marking toddler mode carlier.

He's a King for god's sake! Yet I have never even seen him behave like one.

But instead, I'm in the palace's dusty ass security room, staring at twelve screens and trying to pretend I'm not here for this. There's no one in here right now after I used Enoch's name, and considering that batard is only soft on me, they can't risk having their heads beheaded.

Thanks for that, I guess.

The tiny, crusty fan in the corner of the room keeps rattling as if it's about to give up on life. The chair I'm sitting in is squeaking under me like it's judging all of my life choices.

"Just pull the footage and leave," I mutter to myself, clicking through the timestamps. “You're here for evidence, Taryn. You're being rational. Smart. Cool- headed. Definitely not unhinged and obsessed and stalking your maybe-mate who practically ruined your fucking life."

Click.

"Totally emotionally stable."

Click.

I'm only here to get more footage of Celeste's death. That's it.

The camera view shifts to the hallway outside Enoch's office. My fingers hesitate. My stomach clenches as though it already knows what it's about to see.

The time stamp reads two days ago. Right before I found Brooke in his office. Do I really need to watch this? My heart pumps wildly staring at the screen-blue light hitting my face.

Before I knew it, I hit play.

The scene comes in the hallway, her hair up to reveal her shoulder blades in those thin strapped dress. She knocks once yet with no purpose as she doesn't really wait.

I watch as Brooke walks in Enoch's office as if she owns the damn place. I stare harder and it doesn't take a genius to see she's trying to seduce him with her hips swaying like a bad movie villain with cheap heels and worse intentions.

My fist clench as she just lets herself in, walking over to Enoch who's signing a heck of a paperwork. Whether he reads it or not is beyond me with how fast he's picking and putting the paper back.

Also, did I mention how hot he looks in those glasses? I've never seen him wore one. He's shifted back into his seat as he stares at a paper, he spins the chair to the balcony at his back as he reads, the moonlight penetrating through hits his face.

I lean in closer.

The audio sucks-garbled static with the occasional blip of a word—but the video's clear.

Brooke leans across his desk and Enoch spins back to his office table only to find her nestled on it already, the documents scattered all over the table and on the floor. Her mouth moves fast. Angry. Desperate maybe? She slams her hands down. Then-fuck. She climbs on top of his desk like she's reenacting a porn parody of The Secretary.

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My breath catches in my throat. This is what I saw and heard. She was convincing him to leave me. My brain replays and I hear her tempting voice again, “She made her choice."

However, I stare harder and yet Enoch doesn't move. He doesn't even stand. His arms are crossed. His jaw tight. He mutters something-sharp, clipped which made Brooke flinch. Whatever it may have been must be scary for her to react like that.

Did he reject her?

Enoch's face and my heart drops and

One,

Two,

Three seconds.

was out the door and Brooke's back was on me as she leaned in, so does

see it

his desk, but only to grab her wrist and shove her off his desk. Roughly as she landed on the floor. With all the grace of a royalty and

as she hits the ground and I could hear that thud from a mile away. Brooke says something else,

then she storms

kiss. Not even a hug. Nothing.

I sit there in silence. Let that raw, sick, tight thing in my chest loosen just

my hands down my face. "You didn't betray me." A small smirk edged to slip out of my lips and my heart

didn't still walk away. Or

it does

a lying, manipulative

to show to court. She killed Celeste and as much as I don't like that woman, her death needs justice. Plus, this is for rewriting my perfectly written article and publishing it under my

it onto my phone and two flash drives. One goes into my bra. The other gets shoved in the sock I still have in

hallway outside Enoch's

Beta Jacob to help. This isn't a group project.

personally handling the snake that's been hissing

to his room

And there she is.

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Brooke.

perfect. Lip gloss on. Smirking like a cat who just rolled around in milk

sweetly, fake-surprised. "Didn't realize you were

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boils. But I smile. The only reason I'm not freaking our that she just came out of his room is the fact that I am a million percent sure he's still in his

she touched herself and got off with

full of

eyes narrow. She tilts her head, still acting. "You shouldn't lurk in hallways, Taryn. It makes you

The screen lights up

gymnast.

She freezes.

Her smile gone.

the silence stretch until she finally

arch a brow. "You can wipe that

"You think

"Last I checked, the royal family didn't allow cousins

for a second. Then-like someone yanked a switch-her whole

why I did it. I needed him to kill my father. You have no idea what it was like growing up in that house-do you

up the sleeve

And I freeze.

white lines trailing down the inside of her arm. Another one

from under her collarbone.

Holy shit.

That wasn't about revenge-it was salvation." Her voice cracks, for the first time sounding less like a villain and

But I don't soften.

pain doesn't excuse what she's done to

I scoff like it's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, "He saved me," She whimpers and my walls drop, until that whimper turns into a creepy smile, "And I will do whatever it takes for my hero to

Oh my goddess.

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I mutter, taking