Traded To The Lycan King by MG Wattsons

"He is baiting us." Teiran gruffs, looking around for something more than the few droplets that linger on the ground.

"Or it's someone else." I mutter, focused on the way the blood seems different. Pinker, almost like paint from the store in shades lighter than blood red.

"Both of you are wrong," Kyra murmurs in thought, scooping up a leaf with some of it on it as she brings it closer to her nose and sniffs.

"And what makes you think that?" Teiran asks, walking over to her.

"There is fur in it," she explains, but he huffs in disagreement.

"The fur could have happened before or after the blood was here." He parries.

Kyra shrugs, her smooth locks falling over her shoulder and swinging toward her face as she looks carefully at what's in her hand.

"I suppose that could be true, too. But this blood smells like a deer.

"Then why is it pink?" He frowns and I grin. It feels nice to know a little more about this than others.

"It's from the lungs. It's more oxygenated and therefore looks more pink than red. Do you not hunt deer very often?"

Teiran looks at me with a blank stare, "We don't hunt our deer the same way you do."

"Right," I mumble, remembering he is a big ass dragon under that human skin. He probably doesn't have to chase and tackle, but does more swooping and swallowing.

"Are you sure it is a deer?" He asks, as Kyra stands and walks further from us.

We follow her, watching as she processes everything in her head, her eyes focused and her mind unable to hear anything we are saying now. Until she stops and places her hands on her hips.

"I am positive." She says, looking back at us and then nodding forward to where a dead deer hangs, partially butchered.

"Ezrah?" I ask, moving closer, looking at the jagged cuts closer.

"Most likely," Kyra says.

Teiran says, moving

gone. She moves forward, passing the deer and stepping into a tiny clearing where she places her hands on her hips and sucks in her bottom lip, chewing on

her but always beneath her, but it feels somehow invasive to see her like this, in a way I have

the version he helped to shape, and that she loves so much. It feels wrong to admire

says from behind me. "There is enough meat here that we can turn it

you sure?" I ask him and he snorts

for a long time." He

you know what you are doing? Because it looks to me like you are cutting that deer like a novice." I wince as he just takes

meat, no matter how it is cut." He says, looking mildly confused.

hint of her scent left behind. I follow it, weaving through trees until I see her.

on the opposite side. My eyes stuck on the thing as it darts around, before stopping and standing at the edge of the

up her lower back to alert her to my presence. She shakes her head out of a

whisper to her, only for there to

not Ezrah." She tells me, her head tilting to

not."

scared." A

cocky smile from me as I chuckle low in my

scared, and most certainly not when it is someone of your kind." I tell her, which makes Kyra

steps forward, her blond hair reflecting the sun with flowers strung throughout

She hisses. "That bastard did it, so

closer. "Can you tell me which way

I can see the

are hunting him." I say, placing my hands up. "He is our enemy and the reason

She

Kyra says, confused,

wrinkles and her nose crinkles. "Is that why there are so many of them around?

her. Shit, if she has seen a lot, then there is a chance we will find ourselves fighting more of them. Which will slow us down and likely mean

killed the deer go?" Kyra