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.

to the chase.

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.”

me help you with my father?”

going to announce whose daughter you

“Excuse me?”

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are getting at,” I tell him when my phone starts ringing and vibrating on the table. I glance at it, and so

phone away from my ear and placed it on

He just walked out with them. He is

“Alpha Valen, ma’am?”

know that

his throat, and I sigh, knowing I had to admit there was no kidnapping, and Valen is his

his arms, obviously happy with my answer. I didn’t get Kalen; I thought for sure he would

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forms out at the school, that Valen had to hand in his ID, and yadda, yadda like anyone

teeth and start searching my contact list for his number before hitting dial. He answers it after a couple of rings, and I snapped at him before

say you have kidnapped Valarian and

done no such thing. Technically I am still on school property,” he states, and I rub my forehead before pinching the bridge of my nose in frustration.

ask through gritted teeth. I was beginning

with Casey, do you know his teacher is a stoner?” he whispered, and I sighed. It was pretty obvious she was I don’t think a single teacher there was actually sober.

A lot of the teachers there are from the rogue commune. What do you expect?”

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a tissue to me. My brows furrow when I feel something dribble on my lips and taste my blood coating my lips. I take it from him, and he watches me, his brows pinching together, and he

time for this. I am in a meeting with….ah…

I am not leaving them with her.”

what 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

in school, and I am supposed to pick up Taylor today.”

is this Taylor?” he demands, and I can hear the burning anger in his voice. Kalen chuckles, and I raise an eyebrow at

daughter, it’s my turn to pick them up today,” I sigh, shaking my head, amused that he thought Taylor was a

man.

which one is Taylor’s class?” I hear him ask one of

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can’t just kidnap other people’s kids,” I tell him.

permission to take them. You have five minutes,” he abruptly hangs up,

thought you were seeing someone, I know my son, and he never gets defensive like

tell him before walking to the door and asking the secretary to

a good man,

good mate? Can you promise me

Kalen sighs heavily.

want your son safe, right, protected. Valen is

or your strange help, if that is even what you are doing

burst open. Macey and Zoe rush in. Macey seeing

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swear, Alpha Asshole, if your son has hurt my daughter, you won’t be

calm her

I raise

our kids, I spent all damn morning with him, and he only

hurt a child. Tell me one article you have read where he has injured a kid, leave him be; he will just take them out or bring them