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.

going on?” she demands, her gaze

I say, my voice flat

eyes widen, darting to Mavis, who stands frozen by the

didn’t know! Please, Your Majesty, you have to believe me!”

his face in Aubrey’s neck. “Dad, please don’t hurt her,” he begs, his small voice muffled

of my emotions. My hands are trembling with the effort it takes not to lash out, not to let my

deal with this,” I say finally, my voice cold and detached.

of the room. His cries echo down the hallway, each one tearing at me as he

arms.

opened the gates for Rhett.

filling in for his father. I went to get Jacinta’s and Max’s breakfast when

didn’t realize it was Rhett, I

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words spilling out in a rush.

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You let him in! Do you even realize what

realized, it was too late. They were killing everyone. I used the hidden stairways to get back

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 until you got back.”