Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 238

“It’s okay, Max, go find Grandma or Aubrey. You don’t need to see this. I did the wrong thing, sweetie.” Mavis tells him.

“What? I don’t understand?” Max cries.

“She let Rhett and King Alaric in on the day Jacinta was killed,” I tell Damian and the look of shock on his face is

evident.

“It wasn’t her! It wasn’t Mavis! It was the bloodsucker! The one from the news! I remember his face; I saw him before Mavis took me away,” Max says.

I freeze, his words slamming into me like a physical blow. My heart stutters in my chest as I process what he’s just said. The bloodsucker. He said something similar when I was searching for Aubrey, we just thought he was talking about seeing Alaric on the news. I didn’t realize he actually saw Alaric that day.

Mavis’s face pales, her hands trembling as she presses them to her mouth. “I didn’t mean to,” she whispers, her voice barely audible. “I swear to you, I didn’t know!” Max looks at her confused.

Damian’s eyes narrow. “Soren?” he asks, his voice calm, but much like me, he knows this can’t go unpunished and that doesn’t explain her helping Clyde and Rhett.

Before I can respond, Aubrey rushes into the room, her hair disheveled and her eyes wide with concern. She takes one

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look at Max’s tear–streaked face before scooping him up into

her arms.

demands,

say, my

darting to Mavis, who stands frozen

voice breaking. “I didn’t know!

Aubrey’s neck. “Dad, please

breath, forcing myself to regain control of my emotions. My hands are trembling with the effort it takes not to lash out,

with this,” I say finally, my voice

out of the room. His cries echo down the hallway, each one tearing at

arms.

Rhett. You let him

was filling in for his father. I went to get Jacinta’s and

panel to see the truck, its logos. I didn’t realize it

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her words spilling out in a rush.

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verify? You let him in! Do you even realize what you’ve done?”

time I realized, it was too late. They were killing everyone. I used the hidden stairways to get back to warn her, but then.” she wipes a tear that

heard King Alaric’s voice; Jacinta was arguing with him and Rhett. So, I did all I could. I got Max who was hiding in the cupboard, I hid him in the hidden stairwell behind your walk- in cupboard