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Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy
NOLA REYNOLDSI could still hear the screaming after I’d ducked under the scribe’s rubik table in the Lycan’s throne room.We weren't even two days in from the cave and it was already a mess.“Saints no! Please,” I whimpered, hugging my knees to my chest and clapping my hands to my ears as the screams from outside threatened to consume my mind and snapping my eyes open when the odd thumb came again.What the hell was that? My heart hammered between my ribs as I moved my eyes from the brass plate of the door to the sepia-shadowed blackness of the window.Empty. But it had come from there, hadn't it?I felt my wolf hairs rise with uneasiness, something was lurking outside, and whatever it was, I was almost certain it was waiting to play a game of ‘tag, you're dinner.’And damned if I waited around for that to happen.“Shit.” I cursed in a hushed tone as I scrambled out from my hiding place on my hands and knees, the metal tang of blood getting stronger as I approached the window.The L
Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy One
HECTOR BAYESI let my wolf energy swirl around my hind legs as I bound over to the front of the castle before barreling to a stop when I saw that the double bronze doors to the banquet hall were hanging open, swaying softly in the air that had grown to become almost, stifling.Memories of what happened all those years ago flashed through my yellowed eyes like lightning as I tethered in the foyer, jolting when the slick body of a low-level hybrid settled heavily on the broad triangle of my back only seconds before I felt the pitchfork of its jagged teeth as they sank into my shoulder.“Saints!” I bellowed, throwing my head back in pain and slamming it into the hybrid’s skinhead with enough force that I felt the slippery skin break away and the bones of its skull poke into my heavily furred neck.“Fucking pigs!” I roared, pinpricks of rage dotting my vision as I wound one large fist around the creature’s slack neck, the slick goo of its fluids matting my fur as I snapped it up before sl
Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy two
NOLA REYNOLDSSomething had followed me from the Lycan’s palace, into the shifting shadows of the forested valley beneath. Something that stayed in the dark leakage of the trees, shifting every time I blinked or looked away.It made the blood pound hotly between my ears as I backed up into the carcasses of trees, paying no mind to where I was going.“Hello?” I called out, after turning to stare at the slender skeleton of trees, my wolf eyes squinting as I peered over the underbrush.Crickets.I gasped, choking back a whimpered howl and striding forward, weaving past the sharp tips of the branches that seemed to take an odd fancy to my eyes when I was almost certain I had seen the shadow of the gargoyle hybrid hunched between the trees.I had looked back after my fall to make sure it wasn't following me and was surprised to find that the kinks of its milk-gray back were rigidly facing me, with only the decagon of its head twisted impossibly in my direction.Could it have gotten here th
Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy Three
HECTOR BAYESI’d been following the maiden’s scent for a while, Kalden’s frantic hoof falls trailing behind me on the forested path with the wicked hag of the mountains tottering ahead of us.Ma Jules had been acting weird ever since we arrived at the mountain city, but I hadn't given it much thought until now, in the dark shadows of the trees, where I was looking for my mate.Dammit if it didn't kill me to accept the fact, but there was something about the green-eyed imp that brought my temperature to boil.“Dammit! We're never going to find her!” I roared, throwing my fists into the closest tree I could find so that it cracked dramatically under my assault.There was silence for a moment as I tried to control the rise and fall of my chest, pushing back the anger that dotted the edges of my vision.“And what a blessing that would be,” The hag drawled airily, turning back to sigh at the path after I’d calmed down somewhat.“We'll find her Hector, best believe. We know she came down th
Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy Four
HECTOR BAYES”I’ve watched you, Lycan! Bringing your pert little whores into the city the way you do!” Esmeralda screamed gutturally, a bolt of lightning only just washing over her face so that her crazed expression was crystal clear.”The woman has gone mad!” Kalden screamed beside me, gritting his teeth and making to take a step forward when the old maids warning chuckle cut him off.I winced and shot my arm out to keep the angry werewolf in line, my eyes trained on the blade where a drop of blood had pooled on Nola’s neck.“What the fuck do you want Esmeralda? There's nothing between us, not anymore. Release the woman, DO NOT TEST ME.” I growled, the rumble of my Alpha voice so frightening it made the leaves on the trees around us wither and die.I remembered how I’d placated her even then, as any nobleman would, believing her homelessness to be the cause of her malaise- Never mind that I’d carved a queenly lot for her in the castle.If I could, I would go back and kick the young k
Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy Five
NOLA REYNOLDS”Your Highness!” I screamed mindlessly as the Lycan King fell on his knees, keeling over to reveal the wicked hags smirking face.“Should have left it alone as I told you to, now look what you made me do,” Ma Jules tutted, slamming the blunt end of the spear into the man’s silver-coated head as he turned sharply to growl at her before slumping back down.I gasped, scrambling back until I ran into what must have been Kalden’s unmoving chest as he stood behind me. I jolted away, before realizing that he had been shocked out of his mind too. It was unheard of for a witch mage to stab her king.I stepped forward to meet the wounded king before I felt the heat of his best friend’s hands grab me almost painfully.Was he a part of them too? I struggled against him, snapping my jaws at the space where his hand met my skin before his frantic whisper stilled me.“Don’t make a sound!” Kalden murmured, but it was already too late, I looked up to see that the two women were watching
Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy Six
NOLA REYNOLDSI gasped, sputtering until I'd managed to hack the clot of black goo out, blinking away the oily slime with a profound measure of disgust until the Lycan’s face came into view.”Nola, Are you okay?” Hector panted, his shoulders bowing forward as the split face of Esmeralda’s Gorgon fell to the earth with a wet splat, and I saw where the Lycan had clutched one half-shifted hand to his abdomen, the claws he’d used to burst the old maiden’s head pressed into the hole where his skin was overflowing with blood.So much red, the king was losing a lot of his essence!It shouldn't have been possible that the Lycan was able to stand and half-shift the way he had been this whole time, I gulped reflexively, unable to look into the smoky daze of his gray eyes.I nodded, “Yes, I-I am,” I breathed, raking my eyes over the man’s face as his gold-brown eyelashes fluttered with relief and the hole that had been burning in my heart sagged wider as he bowed forward, leaning heavily into my
Bride of the Beast Chapter Seventy Seven
HECTOR BAYESI narrowed my eyes at the witch that had stabbed me in the back, the garb-clothed coffee-brown of her form blurring slightly in the fog that had begun to cloud my vision.“You will pay for this betrayal Jules, in your blood,” I hissed to myself, seeing the faint shape of her full lips opening and closing, her eyes popping open animatedly before I dug my feet into the soil and pushed forward, trying to ignore the stab of pain in my upper chest as I flew towards the woman.Ma Jules had not expected my attack, because the midnight black of her eyes widened dramatically as a bolt of lightning blazed through the sky, throwing the drawn lines of the Witch’s face in a white overcast seconds before my balled-up fist connected with her jaw, sending her staggering backward.“I have to give it to you Jules,” I laughed darkly, the sound more like a gurgle as the woman sputtered a gasp, looking up at me and holding the slack belly of her jaw with one arm before her eyes moved behind m
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