Found by the Lycan King by Natalie Winter

Chapter 120

Zenovia

Drusilla turned to look at him, and I saw the way she was beginning to lose a temper.

“Do you not understand that she is our only hope? Yesterday, you had barely gotten out of control, yet. you caused so much chaos.”

Callahan was quick to reply. “Exactly. I am the problem. If anybody needs to take the risks, it is me, not her or anybody else.”

We were going round and round in circles as Callahan kept arguing against Drusilla’s words, no matter how much she tried to make him understand.

And I only stood around like a silent bystander. Drusilla cared for Callahan and it showed, but I also felt nice that he cared for me. That he was not selfish enough to make me do anything and everything just because his life was at stake.

“Cal, you don’t understand. The rogue king and his influence are growing stronger. Yesterday, you just lost your control in front of the servants and maids. They will keep mum about it. Elijah and Zee would too. But what if next time it happens in front of others? The rogue King is already trying to break our unity and show how you are incompetent. What do you think will happen when they see you in your beastly state, like yesterday?”

Callahan replied, “Well, I told you. I would step down as the Lycan King and go lock myself in a dungeon or something and only return when I can carry myself without wanting to rip heads apart.”

“No,” I replied before Drusilla could counter.

“Isn’t that what your enemies want? To drive you away from your people? The witch cursed you so that you had to put distance between yourself and your pack. You stay in this mansion all by yourself while your pack stays elsewhere. Do you think they would like that their King is suffering all by himself?”

Callahan shook his head.

“Look Zenovia. You have barely awakened your wolf and you are still learning how to properly shift. You are inexperienced when it comes to battles and I doubt you would stand a chance against the rogue King, let alone me, when I…when I completely lose it. It is risky. I might injure you, hurt you more than you could take. I would have no sense of right or wrong…’

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I interrupted before he could continue, “But that is what the anchor bond is for, right? To stop you before you completely lose yourself. Maybe, the moon Goddess sent me here to help you. To save you and all of us from the future dangers.”

“I am the danger, Zenovia. Why can’t you understand it?”

“The lives of werewolves are filled with danger. Pack wars are as common as something we would discuss for breakfast. I was thrown out of my own pack and if not for you, I would have ended up dead. You saved my life, and I got this one chance to repay you. Don’t take it from me.”

I replied, and my voice cracked a little when I recalled the past. Somehow, whenever my family was brought up, I could not keep the hurt hidden from my voice.

yesterday’s events, I feared if I brought it up, Callahan would send me to my home right away and ask me to

few months ago, but now I wanted to stay back and help him,

brave or too stupidly in love

YOU

said and drove a fist in the windowpane and both I and Drusilla staggered back. His punch went straight through the

still resting on the broken glass and I saw blood beginning to ooze out of his skin.

out of the wounds, but he only dug his hand deeper into the glass.

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are you doing?” I asked, feeling alarmed that he was already on a

him and plucked his hand off the glass. He let me and I saw the way small shards were sticking into his palm and

trickled out of my eyes when

are not healing,” I muttered

into a beast but taking away everything positive of my werewolf

He chuckled humorlessly.

seen him injured and bleeding from the abdomen. How far

out a sigh and spoke, “I will

and closed it from outside, leaving us both

to break the bond as long as it is me who gets to break it. I owe you my life, my

out of my eyes. Seeing him crushed and broken was like somebody was twisting

I would always think that I would wipe off that smirk from his face. But I could not stand this version of Callahan- the one who was doubting himself and my faith in him.

first aid kit from one of the drawers last time

gently plucked them off with tweezers and bandaged his

listen to whatever Drusilla said but then you were going to listen to me. You said I

lower lip. Of course, I had said that but that was only because I wanted to get to

I knew all of it, the urge to help him break the curse was even greater than

back in the first aid kit

So you are going to listen to

head, “I am

to realize what I

act smart.”