The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 38
As if by instinct, he wrapped his arms around me. The anxiety that was causing a raging storm inside me finally settled as we laid there silently. I even placed my hand upon his chest, closing my eyes. It was the most calm I had felt since being a child, roaming in fields and getting grass stains on your nice skirt was the only worry. I smelled his scent with immense pleasure, the lavender soothing me, my perfumed lullaby.
“I’d call this a victory,” Aldrich sleepily mumbled, “the girl who ruthlessly attacked me this morning is now in my arms in bed.”
I reached my hand up and flicked him in the nose. He flinched, chuckling softly.
entally rolling my eyes.
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ere was no night terror, no screaming. The only thing I was waking up to was uncontained, unfiltered sunlight pouring in waves through the bare window.
was supposed to be the night everything went wrong.
xpected to be, but I theorized we had just turned over. I opened my eyes and turned over to find a bare, blank space in the mattress.
, when I opened my eyes and turned over, he was there. Lightly snoring, his long hair extremely tousled, his closed eyes making him appear younger. This was the image Emily stole fr
te of it all, I smiled.
ther for a moment before his eyes fluttered open. I instantly looked away, pretending to be rising from sleep as well. I yawned, p
core, and my heart fluttered.
y, “so, the answer is good.”
of triumph.
back?’ he asked as I sat up. “For the first time ever, no one knows where we are except Alan. No servants, no guards, no ominous stalkers…”
s and grass?”
ith Alan, and I’m sure there will be some celebratory banquet in my honor that I’d prefer to avoid,” he wrinkled his nose in distaste.
ow.”
ing off.”
ff of the bed. My feet hit the cold floor, and I shivered at the morning briskness. Autumn was in full force.
”
o back then.”
in time of our arrival, so we left the small cottage to trek back. I had no reluctance to leave my former home; I thought someone would have to drag me out. But I was content going anywhere Aldrich was.
between us being the crisp crunching and our breathing. It was nice, and I relished in the tranquility of the morning after such a chaotic night. It felt like being on fire then suddenly you’re dunked into a tank of cool ice water.
n. My face heated as I looked at him in surprise.
cold.
the building and the large front yard. The stone path was completely blocked off. I had never seen so many guards, crowded around like a flock of crows.
you, sir,” said the first warrior we passed, “The King is here.”
drich sighed, nodding as if he w
.
but my voice fell flat, “you did win your last battle. Just pretend you’re celebrating that victory.”
ow dangerous a banquet is right now.”
erous?” I whispered.
Anywhere Prine Benjamin is is dangerous,” Aldrich answered und
rted into the small palace I called home now. Immediately, a thousand eyes were on us. The foyer watched us as we passed through, but I did not meet an
m. He did not look like Aldrich. His face was more narrow, his nose small and perky and his graying beard thick. He looked more scary in the way of cunningness and intelligence rather than the brute force Aldrich displayed, his eyes blue and critical. Despite his colored eyes and his essence of ominous wit, he did not come off as reptilian like his wife.
son,” he gr