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, her gaze snapping to

I say,

widen, darting to Mavis, who stands frozen by the window.

know!” Mavis cries, her voice breaking. “I didn’t know! Please, Your Majesty, you have to

face in Aubrey’s neck. “Dad, please don’t

trembling with the effort it takes not to lash

voice cold and detached. “Take Max and leave, Aubrey.”

of the room. His cries

arms.

gates for Rhett. You

might cry. “I thought he was filling in for his father. I went to get Jacinta’s and Max’s breakfast when the bell for the gates

display panel to see the truck, its logos. I didn’t realize it was Rhett, I assumed it

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out in a

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didn’t think to verify? You let him in! Do you even realize

I used the hidden stairways to

I did all I could. I got Max who was