The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 32

Aldrich

“Nothing!” Cathy peeped, propelling over to me before delicately snatching the piece of paper from my hand.

I looked at her incredulously. She took the note and buried it deep in the pocket of her trousers, where she sheathed her dagger. “It’s a personal note from my sister,” she said, and the polite buoyancy in her tone indicated she was lying. When she was overly kind, she was lying, as if she was guilty to be doing so. If it actually was a note from her sister, she would be nasty that I was picking it up.

tious, nervous behavior settled into my bones. After being away for so long, I predicted a warmer welcome. And especially less secrets between us.

g my tone. She merely raised an eyebrow at me, annoyed at my volume. It was a habit I used as

s a note from Danika.”

them, and her mouth kept twitching, like she was chewing on her lips. I saw her bouncing her knee, her foot tapping on the wood. Her hair was in knots, looking more like bleached yarn than the usual silk.

eye

ra that oozed in stress and anxiety, her usual smoothness now rough and dry. Like a rope that was tightly braided debilitating through time to become a mess of thread.

oking at me like that,” she hissed, narrowing her eyes.

hat I should know about?”

ith finality, holding her chin up.

neer.

y shut her mouth and I saw a muscle in her jaw tense. She did

.

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nded the rolling hills to the field.

set up a target for him to show off his new skills.

tells me you’ve been working real hard.”

ing with the bow. It was almost bigger than him.

ies of skills that he had learned.

w to hit the target with one eye closed, hit it while running in wolf form, and even learned a fighting technique where the target was to his back until he pivoted around and shot at it flawlessly.

oved,” I noted, admirin

,” he said, shrugging, “it’s tiring but I do it! It even got me in trouble once.”

rd. “Oh yeah?”

roke her number one rule,” he said matter-of-factly,

sked, raising an eyebrow.

ver tal

concerned.

sted.

iping too.

ppened?”

n’t happy.”

ked in a breath, staring at him with growing anger. “Mommy knew about all of this?”

he got really, really mad.”

o that mansion and rip apart her bedroom.

ou mad?” he asked we

atting his head. I didn’t need both of us to be upset. “Let’s continue after lunch,

punged from any form of punishment from me, he nodded with enthusiasm again,

tormed up

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Cathy

on as Aldrich retr

relief, stalking toward me, “we need to talk.”

oked at me. I felt as if the note was burning a hole in my pocket. “He knows something i

is face. He nervously swept it back.

ed, sighing.

hat is going on in here?” a voice boomed from the door. We both gasped in unison and whirled toward his bedroom entrance, di

guilty.

or, “having secret meetings?’

hard slap.

scussing how we were going to reveal everything to him. We both

guess not. Your son has cared to inform me before either of you.”

ut his incident. Aldrich must have known that a child would blab anything happening.

e.

flinch.

just–”

scared to talk any louder.

ming over me like this, like I was some soldier.

s the face.