The Lycan King’s Healer – Chapter 69
“The last time I was honest with you, you stormed out of here saying you didn’t love me,” I declared acidicly through gritted teeth.
“I did not say that,” he snapped back, matching my energy. “I said you were not acting like the woman I love.”
I laughed humorlessly at that. “Well, maybe she does act like that. Do you not love me now?” There was a challenge in my voice, and I almost wanted to push him to the point of saying no.
do you think I felt when the guards alerted me that you were unconscious?”
hesitate
hought you were dead.”
t him wordlessly, not knowing what to s
we’ve discovered.”
urs or even sense you there anymore. I almost dropped to my knees but I had to get to you, I had to…”
n snaked my arms around his neck, pulling him close to me.
e instantly relaxed, an
osing my eyes as our breaths eventually synchronized.
those were the last words I ever said to you,” he muttere
leaning against his chest. “I deserved it.”
” Aldrich argued, pulling back to look at me. I opened my eyes, reveling in his forest irises.
nest on a roof, and the mens sleep shirt swallowing my figure. “Because you were right. I wasn’t acting ‘strong’ like I used to. I let everything get to me and…I was selfish.”
a good night over someone’s death; I felt nearly monstrous at that.
on my back, looking up at him. He climbed onto the bed before hovering over me, his face over mine. I felt all my breath evade me.
er lip, hesitantly meeting his pointed gaze. “I am not.”
on his lips. “Do it, then.”
ents like these while he was angry with me.
eath, and he laughed loudly at my silent admital of a b
or in his voice while looking down at me. Much to my despair, he shifted his weight to his knees, and the heat of his body over mine was gone.
you doing?”
d my eyes at this immediately.
”
his head, “what happened to you out there?”
efuge in the only place death and despair did not swallow me whole. How I had started experiencing a blistering rage at the lack of normalcy in our lives.
tted as he stood across the room with his arms folded across his chest. He nodded along with my story, brow furrowed. “Al
ls on the tile. Her threat about exposing me to the village and the Queen, practically promising my execution. I had grown accustomed to terror and chaos slowly strangling our lives, but that interweaved with a deadly threat that could endanger me and Theo, was what was making me want to retreat to bed forever. She knew I was already married to Aldrich, but if we were to recite our vows and throw anothe
again. It would be our form of a happy ending in the fairytale that contained nothing but pandemonium and perpetual highs and lows of drama
ould b
at him ashamedly through my eyelashes
now I had no idea how he was going to react to this.
hreatened to expose me to the village and have me executed for what I have done,” I said breathless