Chapter 56
“We need to get to Dustin! But I can’t shift,” Ivy chokes out, while nodding toward the treeline, and I
look up at the steep incline when I am suddenly tackled. I scream when Kade sinks his teeth into my
neck, re-marking me and reinforcing their bond. Wolves burst from the trees and across the road,
coming out from behind the service station, racing toward us. He rips his teeth from my neck and turns
toward his men.
“You can’t touch the girl!” Kade screams at them while pointing at Ivy before turning his attention back
to me. He grips my shoulders, mming me onto the ground. My head bounces off the ground and I
see the stars above, blurring as they twinkled back at me.
“Submit!” Kade screams at me. My body seizes at hismand and I blink dazed at him.
I shake my head, trying to fight it off, and Ivy falls on the ground beside me trying to shove him off.
My eyes go wide when I see wolves rushing straight at us, snapping their teeth and snarling at us. I
close my eyes, waiting for my death and I reach out and grip Ivy’s fingers, as my head rolls to the side
to look at her.
“More than my life,” I whisper, tears filling my eyes as my lips quiver.
“More than my life,” Ivy murmur, closing her eyes and I do the same waiting for death. Together we wait
for death, like we had before. Their paws on the earth grow closer when I hear a feral snarl rip through
the air, bouncing off the trees, and i hear the wolves’ ws digging into the soft ground as they skid
around us.
My eyes fly open to find Dustin stepping over the top of us in his Lycan form. Dustin kicks Kade in the
face as he tries to stand. Blood drenched him as he moved to block them from us. Dustin growls, but it
*Kill him,” Ivy murmurs to Dustin. My eyes flicker as I fight to remain conscious.
“If I do, it may kill Abbie,” he growls, and I look at Ivy, tears glistening in her eyes.
“Reject her now!” Dustin tells Kade speaking through gritted teeth. However, there was nomand
behind it. Rolling on my side, Ivy grabs Dustin’s leg, and his hand reaches down, gripping her arm to
pull her upright.
“Order him!” Ivy choked out with a gasp as I tried to get up.
“I can’t.” Dustin grinds out, and I look at him, not understanding.
“You’re Lycan” Ivy whispers to him.
“i’m under oath. Being a royal guard, I can’t break a mate bond. It is thew and pact sworn to be
upheld. I am bound by that oath, Azalea!” he snarls.
Kadeughs, getting to his feet and I nce at him, my entire body trembling.
“Come here Abbie.” Kade orders, and I feel themand as my eyes ze over. My body obeys and
forces me to my feet and I take a step toward him, though I wanted to run from him. My heart skips a
beat as I dazedly start walking around Ivy toward my mate, tears prick my eyes, a whimper escaping
me unable to fight themand. Dustin grabs my arm, and Kade clicks his tongue.
“I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” Kade says to him, as his pack of wolves start circling around us. We
are severely outnumbered. Dustin nces around nervously. Lycans are lethal, but against 50 plus
wolves, I am not sure how we would fare when Dustin was the only one that was shifted.
“You are aware of the repercussions, Dustin! Don’t be foolish!” Kade snarls. Dustin’s grip on my arm is
unwavering, preventing me from going to Kade despite the pain themand was causing me. And
his other hand holding Ivy against him when she moves behind him her hand locks around my arm.
Ivy rips me backward and away from Kade. Gripping my arms, she shakes me but my fresh mark
seemed to have done something because couldn’t break the urge to go to him.
*Abbie, reject him!” Ivy murmurs, shaking me.
Kadeughs and steps forward, which makes Dustin growl threateningly.
*You can’t touch me! I am just collecting my mate. I haven’t injured your Queen, only tried to hold her.
Though byw I could! Considering she tried to take my mate from me by force.” Kade says cockily.
“You do anything, and I have a lot of witnesses.” Kade says, motioning around to his pack. Dustin
moves in front of us, but even I knew if he attacked Kade, the rest of those wolves would rip us apart.
“Abbie, reject him!” Ivy begs and I try to fight off hismand.
Kadeughs louder and ps his hands. “She really doesn’t know, and she is expected to be our
Queen? Pathetic! Foolish girl. You would expect the King to have more sense to pick a mate more
suited to the position and keep his whore on the side! She can’t run a pack. Noble blood or not, she
isn’t fit for the title,” Kade chuckles.
“Hold your tongue, mutt! You do not know what you speak of!” Dustin snaps at him.
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“No? Your oblivious Queen isn’t aware of thew. Should I educate her simple mind?” Kade mocks.
Ivy nces at him over her shoulder. “For Abbie to reject me, I have to ept it. Which I won’t. She will
never leave with me.”
“No! She rejects you, she cane home,” Ivy tells him.
“Wrong. There’s a minor w in the King’sw. Both parties must ept. And if one doesn’t, it is
decided by the council. Only then is it forced. But until then, she is mine! And I would like to collect her,
now!” Kade says, moving toward us. I peek at Dustin out of the corner of my eye, whose entire body
tensed, and Ivy nces back at me. She shakes me furiously, her eyes flickering and glowing
fluorescent and her teeth turn to points.
“Reject him!” she snaps at me.
“Abbie, reject him!” Ivy yells in my face, the words more of a roar and I am jolted by it. Something she
said clicks, and I feel Kade’smand snap and straighten, blinking away the haze of hismand,
shaking my head.
“I don’t know how. It didn’t work,” I murmur,ing out of whatever stupor I was in.
“He is an Alpha, you have to reject him as your mate and as your Alpha. State your full name and reject
him using his title,” Dustin murmurs, not taking his eyes off Kade. “But he is right, Azalea,” Dustin
nces at me. “I can’t force him to ept it,” Dustin whispers.
“Reject him,” Ivy tells me, a spark of pure determination glistens in her eyes as she shakes me, her
features twisting into a feral snarl of her rage. Kade justughs evily. Stepping toward me, his hand
goes to wrap around my arm.
“Come Abbie,” kade says, clicking his fingers at me when I pull away only to be resized by his
command. Ivy swallows, when my body pushes past her and she grab both my arms, jerking back back
to her, her grip tight.
Reject him!” Ivy growls, and much to my astonishment, I do, feeling her aura wash over me stronger
than anything I have ever felt before. My body turned and looked at Kade, the words spilling from my
lips clearly.
“1. Abbie Marie Barker, reject you, Alpha Kade, as my mate and Alpha!” I snap. Kade growls, clutching
his chest while I shake my head and blink rapidly, themand falling off me.
“1. Alpha Kade, reject your rejection!” he snarls and I whimper, knowing it was of no use. Yet I feel Ivy
begin to shake and she lets me go stepping past me. Her aura makes me cringe as it slips out powerful
and strong.
“ept it!” she roared, and it was like a burst erupted out of her. Her words didn’t feel like words, but
something else entirely. All the surrounding wolves yelp and cry out. I feel the tingling sensation wash
over my body and out of me as themand took hold of him and made him tense.
“1 Alpha Kade, ept your rejection, as my Luna and Mate!” Kade blurts out, unable to fight the
command. I scream, clutching my chest and falling to her knees as it felt like my heart was ripped from
my chest and burned to a crisp. Kade staggers backward, clutching his chest, looking dazed while I try
to breathe through the pain.
Rattled by what happened, Kade shakes his head. “You stupid girl!” he snarls before lunging at Ivy.
Dustin was quicker however, and punched him, sending him flying backward when all the wolves
suddenly ran towards us menacingly.
“Run!” Dustin screams as he starts fighting them off and keeping them from us. The sound of flesh
tearing mixes with the horrible sound of whimpers and broken bones as Dustin grabs any wolf that got
too close. The sounds are savage, but as he got rid of one, another came in
its ce
My heart thuds painfully in my chest, and Ivy grabs my arm, pulling me to my feet. We run for the trees,
and I hear Dustin fending them off. Wolves start dropping like flies as he takes them out. We start
racing up the hill, only for one to slip past him, pouncing on us, and knock us down.
The moment we both hit the ground, Ivy’s weight crushing me when the weight lifts abruptly, and a
furious growl rings through the air. His feet are next to my face and i gasp, looking up to see the King in
his Lycan form. The wolf that attacked us was held off of us by his hand wrapped around its throat. He
squeezes his hand, and I squeeze my eyes shut tight when I hear the sickening crunch of its neck
breaking and he flung it away. The wolf hits a tree, the King tossing him aside like he weighed nothing.
The King res down at Ivy, and I dropped my gaze back to the ground at the angry look on his face
when he steps over us. Gannon is right behind him, and he grabs both me and Abbie, pulling us to our
feet and away from the fighting.
*Thank Goddess” i hear him murmur, clutching us tightly in his arms. I look down toward Dustin, who is
now fighting the wolves. Suddenly. Kyson’s aura slipped out, and his voice boomed around us, echoing
through the night.
“Enough! Now, stop!” he bellows, and everyone freezes under hismand. Dustin clutches his knees
breathlessly. Kyson stomps past him and shoots him a re as he makes his way to Kade.
Kade backs away from the King, his hands up in surrender. At this moment, he truly looked like the
Lycan King. He towers over everyone, standing tall and intimidating. Power oozes off him and his aura
feels deadly, suffocating the wolves pinned to the ground by it.
“I have done nothing wrong! I was merely getting my mate!” Kade chokes out before falling backward
as the King’s massive Lycan form
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growls menacingly. stalking toward him with calcted steps.
“Wrong!” Kyson says with a deadly calm. Somehow, that made him even more sinister as I watch him
approach Kade. Kade shakes his head, and the wolves all looked away from him, cowering and
whimpering.
“I hereby sentence you to death for treason!” King Kyson tells him, stepping on Kade’s foot and making
him fall on his ass.
“Treason? But I didn’tmit treason!” Kade stammers, his voice more of a petrified squeak.
“Wrong! You touched my Queen! Your pack just tried to kill her!” The King snarls, grabbing the front of
his shirt and jerking him forward.
“And for that, I sentence you to death!” The King snaps before punching him square in the face. Or I
thought he hit him until I heard Kade gasp and the sickening sound of flesh on flesh and a gross tearing
noise. The wolves near him wail, writhing on the ground in what looked like pain. The King shoves him
backward, letting him go.
His back is tense when he drops something on the ground, his breathing loud while the muscles of his
back flex. Kyson looks around at the wolves as they all run for the trees when I notice a Cassandra
standing out the front of the service station. I can’t make out her features with my blurry vision but
seeing her for some reason made goosebumps rise all over me as she watched. She then simply turns
and walks away, disappearing into the night.
I feel the bile rise in my throat when I realize what Kyson dropped was kade’s heart. Kyson then turns
toward us, and his eyes go to Dustin. Ivy struggles in Gannon’s grip when I watch, horrified, as Kyson
stalks toward Dustin like a predator hunting its prey.
Dustin doesn’t even move like he simply epted the repercussions. Lycans burst from the treeline
forming a circle around us, looking for any threat having caught up with their King. Damian is among
them. I turned my attention back to Dustin, only to see Kyson punch him so hard it knocked him out
cold. Dustin drops at Kyson’s feet and he just takes it. He doesn’t even fight back, just allows the King
to hit him.
Ivy whimpers seeing her friend hurt, and the King’s head snaps in her direction. He snarls, his upper lip
pulling back to reveal his razor-sharp teeth. He moves toward us, and Ivy presses closer to me, a sob
tears out me seeing his anger at her. Would he hurt her for helping me? Gannon tries to soothe me
whispering in my ear.
“Grab him!” Kyson snaps at Damian as he passes him on his way toward us. His eyes do not leave Ivy.
Damian rushes to do his bidding and grabs Dustin, tossing him over his shoulder. Kyson nods to
Gannon, and he lets Ivy go as the King approaches. His eyes look her over before he grabs her.
“You disobeyed me!” The King growls. “And now you’re injured!” he snaps at her. Ivy groans in pain
and tries to defend herself, my hands raise to reach for her when Gannon pins my arms by my sides.
“But Abbie …” ivy tried to say before he cut her off.
“I don’t want to hear it!” he growls before his teeth sink into her neck. She grips his shoulders and
chokes on a sob when his teeth sink into her neck and she struggles for a second before falling limp in
his arms. I see red as she goes unresponsive, how could he! How could he hurt her when she was
trying to help! And I push Gannon away before attacking the King for hurting her. My hands hit him as I
try to stop him biting her.
“You fucking asshole! You prick! You didn’t even let her exin! You just made her submit!” I screamed,
punching into his side in a fit of rage. He looks at me as if I am merely a small child chucking a tantrum.
Gannon grabs me around the waist, tugging me back but I thrash falling forward in his arms while
iling as he restrains my arms. I snarled angrily, leaning forward and biting the King’s arm like a damn
savage before realizing what I just did as Gannon jerks me backward.
The King blinked down at me, where I was breathing heavily in my anger.
“I will fucking kill you! You . You savage neanderthal!” I screamed, my face heating and I knew I was
turning red-faced from my boiling anger.
Gannon growls before snapping at me, his voice below my ear as his arms hold me stronger. “He didn’t
make her submit. Stop! Look!” Gannon snarled at me, pointing to where the king lifted Azalea’s shirt.
Her wound was already healing, though the King’s hand was filled with her blood. The King shakes his
head. “I’m sorry, my King. I will calm her down,” Gannon tells him, but i escape his strong embrace,
turning to dead weight and slipping out of his arms. I move to check on Ivy. The King looks at me, a
nk expression on his face while he took me in.
“See? He isn’t hurting her,” Gannon whispers,ing up behind me, and I worry my lip between my
teeth before I let out a breath.
“You couldn’t have warned her first? Instead of just going all caveman and biting into her!” I ask him.
“Warn her, like you did me when you bit me?” The King growled and my face heats with
embarrassment.
“I thought … Never mind. Fucking neanderthal men! Anyone would think you were raised by cavemen!”
I snap, rubbing my temples when my eyes fall on the dead body behind him. Kadeid in the dirt, and I
blinked at what became of my mate. Tears prick my eyes at another person lost to me. Someone who
was supposed to be mine was taken away from me. I hated him! I hated him for what he did, but he
was mine, and yet I couldn’t look past my hate to feel grief for him.
“Can we go home now?” I ask, my voice barely audible to my own ears, I sounded defeated and dead
inside, and I was. I look at Gannon,
and he nods his head.
“My King, we have three cars here. They are on the top road.” Damian says,ing over to us with
Dustin tossed limply over his shoulder. Gannon leads me away to where Damian said cars were
waiting.
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