The Lycan King and His Dark Temptation by Luna Nova

Chapter 588

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I AM YOUR ALLY KATHERINE "Shhh," he brings a finger to his lips, signaling for me to stay quiet.

limmediately press my lips together.

The Duke closes the door and steps closer, his brow furrowed as his gaze drops to my chest.

I watch as he sits on the edge of the bed, my mind a whirlwind of memories, my urge to bombard him with a thousand questions barely contained.

He leans toward me, and I shudder at the closeness, his deep, low voice pouring into my ear.

"Don't call me by my title here.

No one can know our identities.

We're just a married couple who were attacked by bandits on the road," he whispers, and I swallow hard, nodding.

He straightens slightly, his piercing blue eyes too close.

Istart to feel nervous not just because of his proximity, but because I might have done something unnatural to heal myself.

Did the Duke notice my magic? He couldnt haveotherwise, hed be tying me to a tree and setting me on fire like a torch.

"I...

thank you for saving me, Du I mean, E...

I say, tasting his name

feels strange, yet oddly

Does your wound hurt a lot?" His gaze lowers, and his fingers hover near my nightgown, stopping just millimeters from the buttons, clearly

then pulls his hands

cleaned me up and changed

clothes?" I

you were covered

down as best

of the house gave me that gown

us feels

exactly happened?" I finally ask, unable to hold back my uncertainty any

studies me with a conflicted

tells me we were attacked, that I was

I was injured, but he claims it wasnt as

hand

it was seriousa dagger nearly piercing my heartbut

he thinks that rather

hooded, but the man you killed was the laborer from that grain silo," I frown,

for, how I knew about the theftwhich

serious than just

who attacked us were well-trainednot

me on my own land..." Isee his pupils

you leave the carriage? If you sensed danger, you

never that far away." "Iwas

was a hidden trapdoor in

expression darkens, turning stormy