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.

cut to the chase.

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.”

does letting Valen mark me help

when he does, you are going to announce whose daughter you

“Excuse me?”

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on the table. I glance

through the phone. I jerk the phone away from my ear and placed it on the loudspeaker, so I didn’t rupture an eardrum. Kalen shakes his head while I try to

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?”

that no good

throat, and I sigh, knowing I had

Kalen nods and folds his arms, obviously happy with my answer. I didn’t get Kalen; I thought for sure he would be here trying to warn me

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me to be with him.

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in his ID, and yadda, yadda like anyone

contact list for his number before hitting dial. He answers it after a couple of rings, and I snapped at him before he had a chance to

to say you have kidnapped Valarian and Casey?”

have done no such thing. Technically I am still on school property,” he states, and I rub my forehead before pinching

Where is my son?” I ask through gritted teeth. I was beginning to get a headache.

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

the teachers there are from the rogue commune. What do

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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 taste my blood coating my lips. I take it from him, and he watches me, his

got time for this. I am in

I will watch them. I am not

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

to be in school, and I am supposed to pick

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

today,” I sigh, shaking my head, amused that

man.

one is Taylor’s class?” I hear him ask one of the kids.

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just kidnap other people’s kids,” I tell him.

them. You have five minutes,”

know my son, and he never

before walking to the door and asking

he is a good man, far better than me. He would be a

Can you promise me that?”

Kalen sighs heavily.

your son safe, right, protected.

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

door burst open. Macey and Zoe rush in. Macey seeing

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my daughter, you won’t be leaving this damn room,”

to calm her down.

nice,” I raise an eyebrow at

to me, and I don’t think he would hurt our kids, I spent all damn morning with him, and he only wanted to help with his son,”

a kid, leave him be; he will