Traded To The Lycan King by MG Wattsons

Chapter 60

“How are you feeling?” Hayes asks, sitting next to me as I lay on my stomach for yet another damn day waiting for the green light to move. If it weren’t for my inability to sit upright, I would have been gone the same damn day, back to our pack where we are safe, where Colette is safe.

“Like a dragon tried to burn a hole through my body.” I grumble, my mood more sour by the minute.

“Considering that’s exactly what happened, I’d say you are fairing pretty well.” He says with a smile, though I can see the way it doesn’t reach his eyes. He looks tired as he plops into the chair opposite of my bedside. “Where did Colette go?”

“With Penny to change and shower, then grab some food.” I tell him and he nods before a yawn breaks free. I watch my brother as he fights to keep his eyes open, no doubt running ragged because of my injury and his mate he has still told me nothing about. “How is she?” I ask.

“Colette?” he asks, snapping his eyes open. “Uh, she seems stressed, but she is managing well enough.”

“No. I mean Leandra.” I say with a point stare. He drags his hand down his face, leaning forward, his elbows landing on his knees as he exhales.

“That would be easier to discern if the woman would talk to me. Instead, she refuses to say a damn thing,” he groans. “It’s like she just shuts down when I am around. She has spoken with Penny and Brent. But me? Nothing.”

“Maybe you make her nervous?” I offer and he scoffs..

“Why the hell would I make her nervous? We are mates, we are supposed to calm each other.” he stands angrily. He paces away from me before he quickly spins, his hand on his hip as if he is thinking.

“Have you discussed the mate bond? Accepted each other verbally yet?” I ask him, and he scoffs.

“She is a traitor to her kind. Why the hell would I accept her?” He asks, like it’s a simple assessment.

“Hayes.” I say, and he shakes his head, scowling at me.

“No, no. I already know what you are going to say. Trust me, I have thought of every scenario. I know what I have to do next. It’s just that…I don’t know that I can do it yet,” he blabbers on, rattling nonsense as if I have the strength to follow his ramblings. I try to get his attention, but he is so far lost in his own thoughts.

“Hayes!” I yell and he freezes, blinking at me like he can’t fathom why on earth I am yelling at him. “What the hell are you on about?”

“Rejecting her, obviously.” He says it likes it’s so simple and I chuckle dryly. The idiot thinks this is the only option? “Why do you think you have to reject her?” I ask him, arching a brow as I try to move. My back burns and I hiss, pushing myself up despite the pain. Hayes rushes over to me, but I shove him off. “Answer me.” I demand.

of them.” He replies,

the side of the bed for dear life. His

head.

He is

him different from her?” I ask. “Is it because we don’t know her? She

no one knows her. Where did she come from? How did she wind up with this group?” He asks. “It comes down to previously established trust.

you

I ask him and he frowns, looking away from me. “I will take that as a ‘no‘ then. How about

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does it matter?” He exhales. “Clearly I have to reject her, but I can’t do that

there with her

her? Because she had the redeyes?” I ask him and he

the enemy,” he

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the sage advice who always calms me down and makes me think harder than I wish to at times. He is so caught up in what is going on around him he is not

I am today. I would not

remind him. “Her actions were not her own and we

he asks, sounding defeated. “How the hell do I trust someone who could kill us at any moment because she

forward to ease the soreness in my back.

not who she was when she was under someone else’s control.” I push myself to

yet, Merikh,” He says, rushing

here. You need to go talk to Leandra. Not as her mate, but as my beta, perhaps she will answer questions not related to you and

head and sighs before he runs his hands through his hair. “I’d really rather not,”

see the way this all hurts him. Hayes has always been the sensitive one. The one I turn to when I am being too dense or hard to notice something needs a gentler

I will go with you after to visit

want to get my ass drowned by my luna?” He scoffs. “Because that is what will happen. I saw how she drowned that damn troll thing with a freaking floating water bubble. Sorry, brother, but your mate

her pretty lips. She rushes to my side, slipping under