Babysitting The Amnesiac Lycan King

CHAPTER 115

The next morning feels as though someone shoved a sock down my throat and dared me to sprint a marathon. It was thee total contrary of what had happened last night's break down.

I don't know what the fuck is in the air today, but it feels lighter. Almost... buoyant.

'You were a bitch just a few hours ago.' Eris murmurs in the back of my mind and I internally roll my eyes at her. As if I was the only one who lashed out. I walk over to the guest room of the palace where Zoe has been staying since Jacob invited her to help with the Unity Ball.

"We need to move," I called out and I hear her murmur 'bitch' as she wakes up from her

slumber.

It took a couple of minutes as I stare straight into the vanity mirror, staring at the auburn eyes of the woman in front of me. A smile spreads on my face, remembering my mate's words last night.

"If we're gonna burn, then we'll burn together, baby." A grin slips past my lips as I swipe my lip balm before fixing everything else.

Get a grip, Taryn, tomorrow's the big day.

I drag myself into the giant ballroom with a now chattering Zoe at my side, arms full of

decorations, glitter, fake snow, and enough ribbon to strangle a damn elephant.

"Smile, Taryn!" Zoe chirps, almost dropping a box of glass ornaments on my foot. "It's a decorating day, not a funeral."

"Same thing," I mutter, shoving a chair into place with my hip. My hands still feel raw from last night-clutching too tightly, holding onto someone who wasn't mine to keep.

"Move your ass, Sinclair," Jacob barks from across the room, grinning like a hyena.

"Eat shit, Wyatt," I shoot back automatically.

He smirks.

We start the decorating with all the pack members' eyes on the four of us. The Alpha King, his Beta, an Omega, and a clueless human. A bunch of people you would not expect to be helping with the decorations.

Most especially Enoch.

Zoe moves to one of the cabinets and drags a plastic crate bigger than her entire body, bitching under her breath about how "they always make the hot girls do the heavy lifting" while Jacob leans against the nearest pillar like he's posing for a goddamn. magazine cover.

And Enoch.

Of course,

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Enoch's stalking around the ballroom in that lazy, predatory way like he owns the entire fucking place-which, technically, he does-but today he's decided to 'help.'

Which apparently means sabotage.

Black Henley stretched over his chest, jeans hanging low on his hips, forest green eyes locked onto me like I'm the last drinkable thing in the desert.

I pretend not to notice to which I absolutely fail miserably. Last night was both our hearts raw on each other's hands. I sure as heck know it was the most intimate we've

ever been.

Nothing would separate us now. I just need to announce to the whole world who I am. A daughter of the Lancasters-one worthy to be Queen. His Queen.

Zoe and I are wrapping the massive support beams with silk ribbons, trying to make the ballroom look less like a haunted Victorian murder house, when it happens.

"Don't even think about it," I snap without looking.

"Think about what, Omega?" Enoch's voice practically purrs from behind me.

I turn just in time to catch him mid-smirk, a thick ribbon looped casually around his fingers like he's already imagining me tied up in it.

“You tie me up and I'll shove that fucking ribbon so far up your ass, they'll have to surgically remove it," I warn.

Jacob actually snorts from across the room.

"Hot," Enoch says, and before I can blink, he lunges-fast as a goddamn viper- snatching my wrist and spinning me like I weigh nothing.

The silk wraps around me quick, a blur of forest green and muscle and a wicked grin.

"Hey-HEY!" I shriek, trying to fight him off, but my arms are pinned to my sides, the ribbon circling me like a boa constrictor on meth. I yelp, spinning, but it's too late- Enoch's behind me, laughing under his breath, yanking the final knot tight.

"You son of a bitch!" I wriggle, glaring over my shoulder. The pack members immediately look at me and I swear one of them gives a disgusting look. Jokes on you, I'm the only one who gets to call him like this.

Your powerful King kneels in front of a lowly woman.

"Language, Omega," he murmurs, smirking as the absolute bastard he is.

Across the room, Jacob is tying Zoe up like a holiday roast while she shrieks.

"We're being attacked!" Zoe shouts to the rest of the pack members, who are just standing there blinking as if someone dropped acid in the water supply. "Help! Tyranny! Abuse!"

Nobody moves. Some are even laughing. Actual warriors. Useless.

"You're all children!" I bark out, half-laughing, half-plotting murder. "Literal, grown-ass

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toddlers."

'fun-loving entrepreneurs," Jacob says,

weighs nothing. She screeches like a kettle

into Enoch's ribs, practically dislocating my shoulder in the process,. He grunts-satisfyingly, might I add-and I lunge for

A bucket of glitter.

it straight down his shirt collar. He

as if I just dumped

down in horror

"You dared," he growls.

cackle so hard I double over, clutching my

I'd do it again," I grin,

stoic, covered in white

his

"1

Majesty," I wheeze out

entire bag of fake

dead," Jacob mutters, spitting out

I didn't realize how

even if it's

cold, slithering fear still lingers. Brooke's

stuck

head that it's

in

today, I'm choosing not to

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chaos doesn't

of us for the Unity Ball auction tomorrow, and I'm still finding glitter in Enoch's hair. We're supposed to create

for fun, decides to vote which are the best paintings and I'm already waving my

art. "What are you doing?" I

covers it

scowling," I tell him, dabbing a tiny brush

paint,

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gonna stick

last thing you see before

Zoe sighs dramatically beside

my eyes but back off, grabbing my own ornament

psycho eyes and

little

it, I

masterpiece, it's a tiny wolf, a silver one... with " Property of Enoch" scrawled underneath in aggressive black

and my heart

face proudly like a goddamn caveman showing off his kill. "Subtle,"

winks. "Not a boyfriend,

eyebrow raised, flashing

comes, and to nobody's shock, Zoe wins.

Enoch

A good one, honestly.

all blind," Enoch grumbles, tossing

I didn't paint

you're

grin that

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into a dance practice

deranged drill sergeant. I

to process out his dancing

amnesia but he's

one, two-Taryn, you're

grinding my heel

I say with zero

pay for that," he warns low, grabbing

me before the Ball,

ear, the bastard.

grin sweetly. "You'd

to the steps like a normal person, he dips me so low my

brushes the floor-

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me like he doesn't give a single

lower, making my knees go weak. His kiss deepens and my knees

Zoe groans loudly from the sidelines. "Get a room before I

her off without breaking the

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and Zoe in our room,