Traded To The Lycan King by MG Wattsons

Chapter 108



*Merikh*

My neck throbs in pain as I frown at Ezrah. This is someone I trust, someone I considered to be a friend or at least friendly, even when the council refused to be that way with me. But Colette is right to question him and where his allegiance stands. Too much is happening, too much doesn't make sense and he might just be that missing piece.

Hybrid Lauren wasn't created on purpose. She was an accident, but who the hell put her back together enough for her body to heal? There is so much that doesn't make sense.

Things that go against the natural law or things we understand as supernatural beings. My head hurts and a wave of exhaustion floats over me, lingering just out of reach to shoo away or catch and nap off.

"You are choosing our side?" Colette asks Ezrah, who looks sad, but he nods in agreement.

"Yes,"

"Why?" she retorts, her eyes narrowed as she waits for the truth.

"Fae have special gifts, and jobs we take seriously," he explains.

"I already know that." She grits out and he frowns.

"And you know that I have the ability to move very fast, to deliver messages and talk my way out of situations."

"Not doing a very good job of talking yourself out of this one," she snorts, and he shakes his head in disbelief.

“Luna, I am trying very hard to be cordial."

I sigh, a heavy exhale as I punch the bridge of my nose.

"We don't need cordial, we need honesty." I tell him and he nods solemnly.

"I know." he paces over to a chair and plops down, looking torn. "This has been my life for hundreds of years, this is what people with my abilities do. To share with you secrets I have been sworn to protect is breaking everything I know and believe. I will have no family after this."

Colette softens in her anger and she frowns before she reaches out and takes my hand in hers.

matters, it is likely you will have no family at all. I don't think Giselle will stop with just me. She has Lily, and she had Lauren.

and I furrow my brows, for the first

say simply, and

at least not

closer. Every dart of his eyes or rise and fall of his chest raises suspicion now. What if Ezrah is lying or what if he doesn't know of someone else because he is

with Giselle since everything has happened?" I

mine as we watch his jaw tighten and his eyes close in guilt as

"Yes."

possible that Lily has control over you, like the others?" Colette asks, and he looks intrigued by the idea before

the nature of my travels, I would be too far from her to be effective," he admits. "That and I have spoken with Giselle, but never

have some honor,"

has been real, and at every turn, when I felt something was amiss, I would do my best to leave hints or clues to help you with my abilities." He says, his face filled with torment and guilt. "I truly believe your kind has

throat, looking over at Colette as she meets my eyes. Her emotions flow freely between us, hers melding with mine as we make these decisions together. She can feel the deep-seated trust I

to choose

too long, and for someone to tamper with my memory, to use me to deliver an assassination attempt...it is time I choose a side as many of my kind have been forced to do." His demeanor changes, growing more frustrated with the situation the more he talks about what happened to him out loud. As if he

she reaches out and waits for his hand. A curious frown tugs

urge him. "You are committing to fighting with

chair and shakes it. Colette smiles a

to the

I guess?" He says back, making Colette

grows lower in the sky. I try to shoot up from my bed, but my legs give out like wet noodles and I tumble to the ground with

as I breathe through the pain that feels like a steel sponge dragging through the insides of my veins. Colette's touch helps to ease it slightly, making it much less jarring, but I look to Ezrah for an explanation of both the

the hell is happening to

light," he says, as if that makes total sense and I should follow the

explain?" Colette asks,

elket

of light. I can bend air and light to my will, in only certain instances. In this case, I forced it through your veins to kill the vampire...genes?... cells? Whatever you wish to call them. In order to save you and your lycan. And the screaming

snap my head up, meeting

still here?" I ask him, and he nods

is indeed," Ezrah