Traded To The Lycan King by MG Wattsons

Chapter 151

*Kyra*

I catch myself constantly stealing glimpses of Hayes' injury. The way the scars seem to crawl up his neck and into his cheek like a thorny rose vine creeping up a trellis. It twists and dips, spots shiny while others are dull and deep. My fingers itch to touch it, to trace the

tendrils that caused him so much pain as they dance up the side of his head, burning off half his eyebrow.

It's mesmerizing, almost beautiful. A map of his sufferings. He finds it appalling, convinced I could only feel the same way. But I don't avoid his touch because of his injuries. I run from the sparks he seems immune to.

The explosion that rips through my body and tries to urge me to follow what the moon goddess has given me. It's not about moving on from what I lost, but accepting what I am being offered. But I'm not sure I can or that I want to.

"Ask me," Hayes sighs heavily, the annoyance clear in his exhale as he remains looking forward. My brows pull together, the left corner of my lip pulling down in a confused frown.

"What exactly am I asking you?"

"Did it hurt? Does it still hurt? How did it happen?" Hayes says, his voice flat and unaffected.

"Is that normally what people ask?" I watch him closely as he clears his throat and looks in the opposite direction. "Because I got the feeling people avoid you."

"Because of my burns?" He scoffs, and I snort.

"No, because you're an asshole now."

Dean and Marcos chuckle ahead of us, both of them shaking their heads.

"Yeah, well, if I look like an asshole people don't ask me annoying questions," He grumbles.

I arch a brow and smirk up at him, regardless of how much he tries to look away.

any questions. You demanded I ask you what you assumed I wanted to know." I remind him and he nods, a small smile

at me," He

steps, I spin, walking backward as I face him. "Every warrior knows what creates those burns, and I know the pain they bring the bearer of them." Then I spin on my toes and walk toward the front of the group. I catch up to Nisha, sliding up on her right side as she looks amused by my presence. Neither of

me and looks down on me for some reason. But if we are going to be stuck together for a while, then I

lost, Tracker?" She muses, her deep brown eyes blinking

Nisha." I tell her. "Just coming

ears. Being around Hayes is entirely suffocating and when he isn't around, usually there is Marcos drowning me with his closeness and his overwhelming presence. Two entirely different men both successfully making me uncomfortable

before she points up ahead, where Koda

offers and I admit her immediate desire

something to offend you?" I ask, tired of

She arches

purely a personal choice." I scoff and nod

before she exhales and groans. Her hand reaches out, clutching my elbow, tugging me back

They are my family, a weird, fucked up and very anger

a scent prickling my senses as I slow down. The trees are still, not a breeze breaking through the dense foliage of

says something to me as I narrow my eyes,

charcoal in the faintest way pulling me off the path

the darkness I see a dull light, like a thread leading me as it pulses away,

after me, but

around a tree, I notice

green and still moist. It's more like a dent, as

I bring my hand to my nose and look closely. There is a slight shimmer, an oily hue, on my fingertips.

to spit

ways behind me, but I push forward. My nose may have picked up the scent, but my other skills have verified it. Ezrah and the egg are close. Now it is a matter of how

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