Lycan's Prey by Jessica Hall

Chapter 49 – part 1

Everly POV

I wake up to pee during the night and realizes Valarian is in my bed. However, it is the body beside him that makes me tense. No wonder my back was killing me with Valarian’s butt resting in the center of it.

Shaking my head, I quickly race to the bathroom. I never usually woke up in the middle of the night and would remain asleep until my alarm woke me. So, I was a little disoriented as I walked back to the room. Glancing at the alarm clock that resided on the bedside table, I noted that it was a little after 3 AM. Why was I awake? In the pit of my stomach, I knew it was the bond, the dull throbbing ache of him being around for so long and the bond trying to pull me nearer and wanting me to seek him out.

I even took one of my pills, hoping the incessant niggling pains would dissipate. I knew they would come on, they always did after seeing him, even if it was only for a few minutes, plus I was worried I would sleepwalk and crawl into wherever he slept. The ache…the need to see your mate is ridiculous.

Bonds are far from a blessing. I would consider the bond to be more of a curse. It was irrational and illogical. Damn, Moon Goddess really screwed werewolves over with that inbuilt setting in our DNA, as if breaking every bone in our body to

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shift wasn’t bad enough. We didn’t even get a say in who our mates were, and we are as good as dead if we didn’t accept them. Valen is turned facing Valarian, Valarian’s head resting on his arm next to Valen’s face,

I carefully pull the blanket back up as I climb back into bed, not wanting to disturb them. They both look pretty peaceful.

I eventually drift back off, but not for long when I feel the bed move. I jolt upright, still caught in my dream of forsaken taking Valarian from me. I try to shake the remnants of the dream away to look over at the clock and see I had only been asleep for twenty minutes. What the fuck? Movement makes me look over at Valarian to see he had climbed out of bed.

“What’s wrong? Are you okay?” Valen asks as Valarian climbs over him to get out of bed.

“I’m just using the bathroom,” Valarian mumbles, half asleep before walking out of the room. My dream is still fresh. I found myself following him, now paranoid about the forsaken getting in my house and stealing him. He shuts the door, and I lean on the wall yawning. Why couldn’t I sleep? I have to do a double tomorrow; I need to sleep.

I debated whether it would be worth taking another pill, but they also gave me terrible heartburn for the first half an hour after taking them; the wolfsbane was not a pleasant ingredient in them.

I hear the toilet flush, and Valarian opens the door rubbing his

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“Val?” I say. He stops and looks up at me through his half–lidded eyes. He is not coherent at all as

yawns.

you want to sleep in my room?” I ask him, knowing his father was

keep kicking me,” he mumbles, turning around, walking into his

to do with myself now. I check all the windows and locks before rechecking them to ensure I didn’t imagine checking them, anxiety at its finest. I debate what to do. I could climb in with Valarian, but

to lead me back to my bed where Valen was. I knew the bond would get stronger, now I marked him, but this was ridiculous, making me wonder what would happen tomorrow when he wasn’t here. Would it get worse with him further away? Would the

one another before my body won, my feet carrying me back to my room while I mentally scolded myself

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sleep on the couch if Valarian isn’t coming back in. Is that why you were pacing in the hall, or did you go retake one of your pills?” Valen says while yawning. Pacing? I didn’t realize I was pacing. I feel like

“Everly?”

fine,” I

my hands into fists and place them under my ass to stop myself from trying to touch him. What is wrong with me? The pain I was used to but the feeling of him so near was making my heart rate

lay back down, getting comfortable behind me. He sighs loudly.

told me what those pills were you were

too observant for his age;

take them? Valarian said for pain, but I am

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