The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 25

Aldrich

I didn’t care that she took it back; it was too late, the words already uttered into our little universe.

I smiled to myself in the darkness, my desk light the only thing illuminating the cabin. It was quite humorous, rejoicing about my wife admitting that she loves me. My only wish was that she let me respond.

ed me, constantly drifting in and out of the forefront of my mind.

n my desk and got to work. I had to let her know what I was feeling whether it came from my lips or my pen. Whether she would know soon, or years from now, she

I pocketed it, making sure it was always by my side.

e some days. Of course, I could not present that to anyone, not even Agar. I had to constantly be restoring a tough front to my warri

I wondered if I would make it out alive

e.

t night.

taken out.

as his grim reaper so that he could go out swinging.

im–at first. I threw my ax back, my favorite weapon to wield in an easy battle wit

king down at Theo.

his stance defensive, stood like he knew he was going to die but didn’t care; he would never back down. It starkly reminded me of my son.

hine. Never look them in the eye, don’t even look at them long enough to remember the face of the person you killed. Just swing and shoot and hack; the only part of them that mattered was their blood.

ire lunged at me; he must have smelled my already suffer

th his jaws. He did it easily as if his head was a hollow pumpkin.

ter I was bandaged, they did not ask any questions.

cept

o the ground, all we saw was a youngling by you, no one else. What got you?”

hesitated a moment before

zation gradually settled in. Letting out a sigh, he put down his drink, plopping dow

He looked just like him. It would be like killing my son.”

to the defeat.

Cathy

what?” Danika exclaimed in g

s and decorations as I admitted to her the conversation Aldrich and I had.

the canopy over her bed.

y, throwing the stem back at her, “plus, I took it back, anyway.”

e him…he’s a great guy.” Her eyes faded into a distant, admiring looking trance.

,” I said mockingly, rolling my eyes.

hink you both deserve it,” she urged, folding her undergarments to put into her armoire draw

der.

hrough the doorway, his cheeks flushed from playing outside.

t an exploding laugh, the kind of l

eyes still far away.

he kicked his feet out.

served, focusing on hanging her gowns in the armoire. “I am so happy for what it has become.”

set Theo down on my rocking chair for him to entertain himself on. “It doesn’t feel like it

ssing her lips t

in a glowing garden. But I felt I was being slowly hunted. My life was more lavish in the cottage. I barely went outside anymore

gazing out the window at the slowly dying garden.