Traded To The Lycan King by MG Wattsons

Chapter 73

“Colette

“How far ahead of us do you think they are?” Penny asks, tugging the bag further up on her shoulder.

I pause, looking through the trees at the trail Ezrah said Caspian took on his journey to the ocean. Truthfully, I don’t know how fast Caspian can travel by foot on land. There is no doubt he is fast in the water, but here, on land? He should be slower moving, right?

“They can’t be more than half an hour to forty–five minutes ahead of us.” I assure her without actually knowing

“Good,” she says, looking around warily. “These woods are giving me a bad feeling.”

I look where her eyes are, seeing nothing and feeling nothing out of the ordinary. But then again, Penny is not only a trained warrior but a skilled gamma. Otherwise, she wouldn’t be my gamma in the first place.

“I don’t see anything out of sorts.” I say casually.

She scoffs and shakes her head. “It’s not something I see, luna. It is something I feel, here.” She places her hand over her gut.

“Hmm,” I muse again, looking around, trying to feel with my wolf or anything I can. “Instincts?”

“In a way,” she shrugs. “It feels like there is more of a disturbance. My lycan is bristling, warring with me to take over and search the area.”

Suddenly, a shiver runs down my spine, my skin growing cold, and I whip my head around. Penny places her hand on my shoulder, leaning closer while her eyes search every nook and cranny.

“Luna, I think it’s time to run,” she says, giving me a gentle nudge. “Now.”

There is no questioning her or her judgement. I break into a sprint, tearing through the trees like a raging bull let on the loose. Branches whip across my skin, stinging my face as I push forward, my hands out, trying to protect myself.

“To the left,” Penny hisses, “running on that trail will be faster than pushing through the foliage.”

I turn toward the trail I can see pecking out behind a sparse bush. As I approach it, I leap over a root, my foot getting caught as I cry out and slam hard into the ground, my hands saving my face from barreling toward the ground at full

force.

Penny as she runs while dragging me along. I can the fear on her face, the fear she tries to hide from me

look over my shoulder. I see the panic rising and she turns, running backward for a moment before turning forward

and find out we are wrong.” She says, pushing on my back again to make me move

my nerves on full tilt as I scan every area, watching, waiting. Penny remains as close as she

down the narrow trail. I can hear her doing as I do, and I toss it to the side, the bushes crunching under the

back at her to

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Chapter 73

to sand and I giggle with

my right and I turn to look as a branch flings up, a string attached flying higher until my ankle sears in pain and my body pitches forward. My fingers dig into the sandy earth. unable to find leverage as

uses her nail to cute my ankle free. I land on her and she

and she growls, her lycan rippling through her as her spine

can’t tell if there is

to show us she is nonthreatening. “When someone comes rushing after our king, we grow a little

balance and stand, hobbling on one ankle, my other burning with the rope burn and

hoping

drop her guard, instead she chuckles softly.

you?” She asks the

general of the siren warriors. My name is

“Nice to meet you. Are they

to look behind us, her eyes snapping back and she gives us a

She says, motioning toward the

wolf is on edge. I play through this woman’s words, the

city“?” I ask her, tilting my head. “Is it

then within a second they roll, and she lifts her hand, snapping it. Too many sets of hands land on me, taking

lycan breaking out as she bounds toward me, her claws swiping men off me with ease. She tears one in half, throwing him to the side. And I jump up, extending my hands out as I close my eyes and focus. I can feel the water, so strong, so much of it bubbling as