Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 42

Everly POV

“You look worried,” Kalen states. He leans forward before standing up. He motions toward my chair, and I walk over to it before taking my seat. Kalen takes the seat on the other side of my desk.

“No, I kind of expected it. You here too, what? Threaten me about telling Valen about Valarie?” I ask while pulling my phone from my pocket and sitting it on the desk.

“You think that little of me?”

“Well, you did let your mate die, so what else should I think?”

“I never intended for that to happen. I loved Val, she… I was coming to claim her, and she always hid how bad it was.”

“Bullshit,” I say, hating him more and more by the minute.

“You think I wouldn’t take it back if I could?”

I didn’t care to hear his excuses, and I knew Tatum would be lurking around, so if needed, I only had to call out to him.

“What do you want?” I ask him.

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“Let Valen mark you.”

I fold my arms across my chest and sit back, I didn’t expect that.

“No.”

“Don’t be stupid, Everly. Do you want to turn out like Valarie?”

“And whose fault is that?” I spit at him.

“Fucking stubborn woman, you’re just like her. Set in your ways.”

“Marking me will solve nothing, five years I lived with him screwing around, am I supposed to forget that, forget him kicking me out in the rain when I tried to tell him?”

Kalen scrubs a hand down his face. “My son won’t take anyone besides his mate, and I need some kind of leverage against your father.”

“My father is not my issue.”

“Don’t be so stupid. I am trying to stop a war,” he says.

“And you think I am the answer to it. My father won’t care if I marry Valen or mate and mark him. He hates me and me

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having a kid to him will only make him hate me more if he finds out.”

“You have no idea what’s at stake here.”

“For you or me?”

“Both.”

“Then tell me I am not a damn mind reader you need to be either transparent or get out of my office.”

“I know you don’t trust me, Everly. But I am trying to do the right thing here,” he says.

don’t so cut to the

happy. I want my grandson to be a part of his life.” He pauses and sighs heavily. “I want to make up for the past. I want to do what’s right by Valarie, what she would have wanted.”

mark me help

does, you are going to announce whose daughter you

“Excuse me?”

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won’t mark Ava now he knows he has a mate.”

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you are getting at,” I tell him when my phone starts ringing and vibrating on the table. I glance at it, and so does Kalen, who motions me to answer

placed it on the loudspeaker, so I didn’t rupture an

a man has come and stolen your Valarian and little Casey from class. He just walked out with them. He is claiming Valarian is his son,” I growl, annoyed

“Alpha Valen, ma’am?”

do you know that no good

the most favored Alpha among rogues. Kalen clears his throat, and I sigh, knowing I had to admit there was

and folds his arms, obviously

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ID, and yadda, yadda like anyone would actually be able to stop the feared Alpha Valen even if he

to him,” I assure her before hanging up. I grit my teeth and start searching my contact list for his number before hitting dial. He answers it

has the school rang me to say you have kidnapped Valarian and Casey?”

school property,” he states,

Valen. Where is my son?” I ask through gritted

teacher is a stoner?” he whispered, and I sighed. It was pretty

there are from the rogue commune. What do you

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snaps at me, and I move the phone to the other ear when suddenly Kalen is holding out a tissue to me. My brows furrow when I feel something dribble on my lips and

I am in

will watch them. I am not

to do with them. Yet, I was stuck here in this ridiculous meeting with his father, but I didn’t want to tell him that and have him get it stuck in his head that I was allowing him to

school, and I am supposed to

Taylor?” he demands, and I can hear the burning anger in his voice. Kalen chuckles,

pick them up today,” I sigh, shaking my head, amused that he thought Taylor

man.

Taylor’s class?” I hear him

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other people’s kids,” I tell him.

take them. You have five minutes,” he

someone, I know my son, and he never gets defensive

I tell him before walking to the

he is a good man, far

mate? Can you promise

Kalen sighs heavily.

you want your son safe, right, protected. Valen is

I don’t need Valen’s help or your strange help, if that is even what you are doing or trying to do.”

to say something when the door burst open. Macey and Zoe rush in. Macey seeing Kalen,

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if your son has hurt my daughter, you won’t be leaving

to calm

nice,” I raise

me, and I don’t think he would hurt our kids, I spent all damn morning with him, and he

injured a kid, leave