Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 36 – part 2

“Where are your coasters? You need coasters,” he says, sitting like a statue as if the thought of placing the cup down would make the world stop.

“Definitely your kid,” Marcus says, rolling his eyes before walking off, and coming back with a coaster. Itch as Valarian places the coaster on the coffee table when Marcus gives it to him before he makes sure his cup is perfectly centered. The coaster is straight, making me remember Everly finding me coasters when I visited her.

She had said one of the kids of the rogues was a little OCD. Now I wondered if she meant our son. Valarian clasps his hands in his lap, looking around and twiddling his thumbs.

“How did you find me?” I ask him.

“Mom, showed me a picture on the internet and I got maps, but I couldn’t find your street. Casey got the wrong maps. And then I found him, and Tatum brought me here.”

“I take it you’re the missing rogue boy, I heard about on the radio?”

“I was on the radio?” he asks excitedly, and I smirk.

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Chapter 36 – part 2

“Where are your coasters? You need coasters,” he says, sitting like a statue as if the thought of placing the cup down would make the world stop.

“Definitely your kid,” Marcus says, rolling his eyes before walking off, and coming back with a coaster. I we i as Valarian places the coaster on the coffee table when Marcus gives it to him before he makes sure his cup is perfectly centered. The coaster is straight, making me remember Everly finding me coasters when I visited her.

She had said one of the kids of the rogues was a little OCD. Now I wondered if she meant our son. Valarian clasps his hands in his lap, looking around and twiddling his thumbs.

“How did you find me?” I ask him.

“Mom, showed me a picture on the internet and I got maps, but I couldn’t find your street. Casey got the wrong maps. And then I found him, and Tatum brought me here.”

“I take it you’re the missing rogue boy, I heard about on the radio?”

“I was on the radio?” he asks excitedly, and I smirk.

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watching as he stands by

sits on.

mother is quite worried about

worries

mothers do?”

about your village,” I

know?” he says, much happier at the promise of food.

you know which pack your mother came

was thinking. “I know mom had a sister, and they used to be best friends, she doesn’t like speaking of her real family,”

you have never met her

whore and kicked her out because mom had me, but she isn’t a rogue- whore right?” he says, his brows furrowing. “Why would they do

what I know, Everly is nearly twenty–three,

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eighteen when she had him. But then Everly’s words flooded my mind, “I am not a rogue whore,” she said, so that meant she knew who I was and

why she didn’t

you didn’t believe her, then she said she

also looks at me, and I try to think for

do you mean she couldn’t? Why couldn’t she?”

me from her, Mom thinks I don’t listen, but I do, she thinks you would

arms on my knees before scrubbing a hand down

if she didn’t tell me how the hell this was possible and also why the hell she kept

you?” he asks

ask, he

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tell him.

he

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think that when

to ask something else, but I speak

I think I should talk to your mommy,” I

nods.

will come live with us now?” he asks hopefully, as if it

wasn’t going to be

were that easy. had no idea, this was the last thing I expected, but I suddenly felt like shit, that she had been raising our son on her own, looking after him all

her when she was rogue and kicked her out of my Packhouse. My stomach sinks. I kicked my own son and mate out in the rain when she was homeless and living in her car. The thought sickened me, he was right there all this time, and