Chapter 60
Azalea POV
Two days had passed, and I never thought I would be so excited for Kyson not to be home. He was
driving me up the wall, watching me constantly, stuffing vitamins down my throat. A week and he was
already overbearing. Kyson had exined that one week in human pregnancy is equivalent to three or
four weeks for Lycans, but if this was a week, I would hate to see what a fortnight would bring.
However, I was excited to know that Abbie wasing back tomorrow, there was only so much to do
around the castle, and Kyson forbade me from helping Peter, the stable boy. Also, from helping rice,
I was bored out of my mind.
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So today, when I woke up to find he had gone somewhere, I was a little relieved not to have him
breathing down my neck. However, he had allocated me a babysitter in the form of Liam. Liam was
alright, a little crazy but definitely entertaining, and Dustin didn’t seem to mind having him around
either.
*My Queen,” Liam says while walking into the room. I roll my eyes and scoot the edge of the bed when
I see him walk into the room. In his hand was the dreaded vitamins and some smoothie Kyson had
been making me drink three times a day that tasted dreadful.
“Bottoms up,” he says, holding out the green chunky-looking drink and the pills.
“I will pass on that,” I tell him.
“Your royal pain in the ass said I was to ensure you drink this lovely concoction that looks like snot, and
baby shit, my Queen,” I shake my head.
“Can’t be that bad,” he says, thrusting the cup toward me.
“Have you tasted it?” I ask him.
“No, but I watched him make it before he left, and he was very insistent that you drink this lovely ss
of vileness,”
“What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him or my stomach,” I tell him, cringing. It was a taste you would
never forget.
“Just a sip and I can say I watched you drink it,” Liam offers. I raise an eyebrow at him, he would have
to pin me down to get me to drink
that.
“If you can stomach it, I will try,” I challenge. Liam shrugs and sighs, holding the ss up.
“Not much I haven’t had in my mouth, my Queen, but if it gets you drink it, I shall have a little sippy sip,”
he says, while bringing the ss to his lips. He tips the ss up, drinking a mouthful. I watched him try
to swallow, covering his mouth with his fist as he gagged and coughed. He forced it down like he was
swallowing a golf ball looking very pained. At the same time Dustin walks in behind him with my
breakfast.
“Good God, that tastes worse than that prostitute I went down on,” Liam gasps shaking his head and I
pull a face, and he shrugs and Dustin gives him a look of disgust. “What, the woman could have told
me. How was I to know she was a hooker, and I was her fifteenth client for the day,” he mumbles the
last part. I pull a disgusted face, and so does Dustin. I really could have gone without that information.
“Wait, if she was a prostitute, how did you not know?”
“To be fair, I was pretty drunk. I thought it was a hotel. Turns out, instead of a mint on my pillow, it had a
woman,” Liam says, taking another sip of the drink as he rambled. He heaves, spitting it all over Dustin.
Dustin tenses, his face covered in the green substance, and Liam drops the ss on the tray Dustin is
holding. Liam frantically starts digging in his pocket before pulling out a small ss bottle that fits in the
palm of his hand. I knew it was liquor by the potent scent. He chugs it down quickly. gulping it down
until the small bottle is empty.
“Ah, nasty,” Liam says, wiping his mouth. I press my lips in a line trying not tough at the horrified look
on Dustin’s face as he stood frozen. Liam, finally turning his head, notices he spat the drink all over him
and chokes on hisugh before turning serious again when an enraged Dustin res at him.
“Well, that shirt was damn ugly anyway, all good. I will get you cleaned up,” Liam says, taking out a
handkerchief to scrub Dustin’s face.
Dustin growis. “It’s my uniform. You are wearing the same one,” Dustin says while Liam cleans his shirt
and face.
“One sec,” Liam says, licking the handkerchief wrapped around his finger before scrubbing at Dustin’s
chin.
“They’re good as new.” Liam exims.
“You did not just clean me with your spit” Dustin snarls.
“Ah,e on, Dustin, not the worst part of me you have had on your face,” Liam says, and Dustin’s
face turns bright red. He shoots Liam a look.
“Liam!” Dustin snaps.
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“What, I was just saying. Liam shrugs
“Little sensitive this one.” Liam says, sending me a wink.
“Do you have no manners? She is the Queen. You can’t speak like, ah,” he thrusts the tray at Liam
before storming out.
“Wonder what crawled up his ass… Besides me, of course,” Liam says, watching him leave. I didn’t
know what to say to that, so I just ignored Liam’sments and wandered off to the bathroom, shaking
my head. I showered quickly and got changed, wanting to go find something to do.
The castle was pretty quiet today as Liam escorted me downstairs. Most of the guards went with Kyson
because they were raiding a nearby pack, so only a handful was left here, and the ce was locked up
like a fortress.
“We could go for a walk in the gardens, my Queen. The King doesn’t,” Liam falls silent, his hand
gripping my shoulder. Liam stepped down thest few steps before I suddenly found myself mmed
against the wall, his hand going over my mouth.
My heart beat erratically as he held a finger to his lips. Gone was the fun-loving man I was used to as
his eyes flickered oddly, a sadistic gleam in his eyes as they darkened and his canines protruded past
his top lip. I could hear rice frantically talking down the hall before the doors next to the staircase
burst open. Liam shoved me behind him as men in armor flooded the halls from every direction. My
hands shook as I clutched the back of Liam’s shirt, where he shoved me behind him.
Guns raised, four other men, who I could tell were Lycan, walked in wearing suits. rice rushed in
after them bursting into the foyer.
“May I ask what this is about, MR Crux,” Liam asks, motioning for rice toe to him with his hand.
She rushes to his side and whispers something to him, and I only catch thest part about how they
took the guards out. She nces at me nervously behind him. Liam nods but doesn’t move his eyes
from the men surrounding us with their guns trained on him.
The mind-link opens up as Liam calls for the guards, yet no one answers. However, Kyson does feel
the open mind link and invades it.
“What is it?’
*The council is here. Get home,” Liam tells him.
“Don’t let them in. I am on my way.”
“Toote,”
“Azalea?”
“Get here, Kyson. I am all that is left,” Liam growls, mming the link shut.
“How may I help you, gentlemen,” Liam asks, walking down to greet them.
“We have had aint,” the tallest of them says.
“So you thought you would break into the Kingdom? The King isn’t here, so I am sure we can
reschedule,” Liam says. The tallest of them would even match Kyson in height, his obsidian eyes
stared at me curiously, and he sniffed the air.
“rice take the new girl upstairs,” Liam says, but the man steps forward, and Liam’s hand falls on his
chest. The energy shifts and rice grabs my arm, pushing me up the stairs.
“She remains. We aren’t to see the king but to find two women, an Abbie and Queen Azalea,”
“As I said, the King isn’t here, and neither is Abbie or the Queen, Liam growls, looking at the man who
still had his eyes on me. The men surrounding him moved in closer the moment Liam moved, guns
pressing against him, and my heart thudded painfully. I felt sick.
The man watching me tilts his head to the side. “Now that would be a lie because she reeks of the
King’s scent,” he growls.
“And as I said, the King is not here, so I will escort you off the premises, gentleman. No need to frighten
everyone here.” Liam replies.
rice grabs my arm, and I follow her when another voice fills the room. Themand behind it
makes me freeze.
“She goes up those stairs shoot him, and the woman.” I stop, and rice gasps, as her eyes meet
mine, the fear behind them as she stared at me made me swallow while I tried to figure out what was
going on.
“rice, take her upstairs,” Liam says, and I swallowed, turning my attention back to these men
surrounding Liam.
“What is this about?” I demand, and the man smirks as mymand roles over him but has no effect.
“If you woulde with me, my Queen,”
“She is not going anywhere with you.” Liam snarls, turning his head to the man watching me intently.
The men holding guns step aside to allow the other three men into my line of vision, all of them dressed
impably in tailored suits.
“You must be Azalea. I see you have met Mr. Crux. I am a council elder. My name is Denali,” he says.
He seemed to be the one with the
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most authority out of the lot of them. It oozed off him. He smirked, his cold blue eyes looking up at me
as he swept thick blonde hair from his face. He had a thick ent I couldn’t ce.
“And this is my brother, Larkin, he says, motioning toward the man beside him in a blue suit, his blonde
hair tied at the nape of his neck, he was a little shorter, but he had the same cruel, sharp features as
Denali. “And this Kendrick,” he says, motioning to thest man that was missing an eye. A long jagged
scar went from his hairline to his chin, his lips scarred and twisted into a snarl.
hin, his lips scarred addich he says, motionin
He took a step toward me, and Liam moved quickly, stepping into his path and grabbing the front of his
suit jacket.
“Touch her, and I remove your other eye,” Liam snarled. Kendrick snarls back at him; however, Denali
is the one who speaks.
“No need for that, Liam, you are outnumbered. We are here for the rogue girl and the Queen, no
reason for things to turn messy.”
“Not without the King present;” Liam says, turning his attention to Denali.
“We are well within our rights to enter. As council members we have immunity into any pack even the
King’s Pack. We also have a warrant and an entire pack to back the ims. She will be given a chance
to have her say, but for now she muste with us”
“What ims?” Liam demanded.
“There are only twows that are upheld to this degree, Liam. You know that, so if you would follow me,
Queen Azalea, we can settle this and bring the other girl,” he said, motioning toward me.
“Abbie isn’t here,” I tell him.
“Very well, this won’t take long, we brought the truth serum, so it should be settled quickly,” he says,
motioning for his men. They move toward me, and all hell breaks loose as Liam suddenly shifts. Denali
is instantly ripped backward along with the other two men when the guns start going off. But I don’t get
a chance to see what happens as rice rips me up the stairs. I could hear gunfire and fighting,
screams and footsteps chasing after us.
“Kyson,” I screamed through the link.
“An hour out, fucking pull over,” I hear him scream at someone through the link.
“Hide, I will find you,” he says, cutting off the link. I felt him shift through the bond just as rice stuffed
me into a room. She looks around, and so do l as I hear footsteps. My entire body shook, and I found
myself in the forbidden room across from Kyson’s old quarters.
“Stay here. I will lead them away.” rice says.
“Lock the door,” she says, cracking the door open and peering out. I went to go after her when she
slipped out and shut the door. I quickly locked the door and nced around toward the window.
Hundreds of people stood out front the gates, and I stepped back so they wouldn’t see me.
‘Where are you?” Kyson says through the link.
“The room across from your old Quarters,” I tell him, watching in horror as I see Dustin lying
unconscious on the cobble driveway along with a heap of guards. Men were handcuffing their hands
behind their back, all of them unconscious with darts sticking out of them. Yelling could be heard, and I
could hear Liam fighting still as he was dragged out, yet he was hit with another dart, his body twisting
and arching as he was forced to shift back.
Multiple darts were in his back, legs, and neck when a guard wearing ck camo lifted his gun and
shot him in the chest three times with more darts. His legs went out from under him and blood-
drenched his entire body when I heard a shrill scream.
I watch petrified as rice is dragged out kicking and screaming with the two boys she had taken in.
Denali wipes his face with a handkerchief as he walks out toward the gates when I spot her. I was
certain it was the same woman.
The woman that watched from the servo after Kade was killed. Denali talks to her through the gate. I
couldn’t hear what they were saying, but the three other men also stood off to the side, watching him
before he turned around. The man with the missing eye wiped the blood off his face before snarling
and kicking Liam in the stomach. My hands went to my mouth, so consumed with fear, I forgot Kyson,
who was talking to me through the link.
“Azalea!” he snapped. Denali turned around before reaching for a microphone of one of his guards. He
turns to face the castle bringing the microphone to his mouth.
“Queen Azalea, you have been summoned by the council, so you need to step outside,” He says,
slowing. He looks up at the windows, and I remain back out of his line of vision.
“You have two minutes to step out, or we will use deadly force, beginning with,” he looks around before
one of the guards grabs Oliver. rice loses it, shifting and attacking the guard when Mr. Crux punches
her knocking her to the ground before grabbing the boy.
“Two minutes or the rogue boy dies,”
“Azalea!” Kyson snaps at me.
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‘They’re going to kill them if I don’t.”
“Don’t you fucking dare.”
“They have Oliver,
“Azalea, I am not far out. Remain where you are.” Kyson says as I watch in horror as they push tiny
Oliver to the ground on his knees. Mr. Crux pulls a pistol from inside his jacket and presses it to his
head.
“Two minutes Queen Azalea, I can not kill any Lycan here but a rogue, even a child I have the authority
too,”
“I have to go.’ I tell Kyson.
“No, remain where you are,” he orders and I grit my teeth.
“How far out?”
*20 minutes,
“It’s too long.” I tell him, forcing hismand off.
“One minute,” Denali calls over the microphone, and Oliver cringes away from the gun held to his head.
“Azalea?” Kyson says, his panic smashes into me. Mr. Crux presses it to his temple, and I rush toward
the window, throwing it open.
“Wait, I wille down,” I scream to them. Mr. Crux lifts his head to look at me while Mr. Denali smirks.
“We thought you would change mind.” He nods toward some of his men, who race toward the castle.
“They will meet you at the foyer doors,” Denali called through the microphone, and I nodded, moving
back inside the window. I nce around at the baby’s room. One that was made for me had Kyson
found me when my parents were killed, however nothing here offered any sort of protection.
Swallowing down the bile in my throat, I move toward the door and open it.
The moment I stepped out of the safety of the castle doors, I was surrounded and grabbed. They
dragged me to the front of the castle, and Kyson was in my head the entire time, telling me to stall
them. His fear was potent, and I wondered what sort of history he had with the council that they would
be daring enough to go against the Lycan King.
“Azalea, my Queen. So lovely for you to join us.” Denali purred, and my skin crawled as he approached
me. He clicked his fingers at one of his men, who shoved me toward the iron gates and handcuffed my
wrists to the solid bars. My heart skipped a beat as everyone took a few steps back as they watched
beyond the gate.
‘Fear not. You will have your say. We just have a few questions for you. This is merely a precaution,”
Denali says, gripping the back of my neck to turn my face toward his..
Are you really that gutless that you had to wait for my mate to leave?” I ask him, and heughs
sadistically.
He stepped away, and I could see Oliver kneeling next to rice, crying, huddled in Logan’s arms.
Turning my attention back to Denali, he sneered at me.
“It is a mere coincidence that the King wasn’t home. We were sent the report and investigated; this is
just a questioning,”
“If that is all it is, why did you feel the need to take out my guards and handcuff me to a damn gate?”
“Because we are aware of the pact the guards hold, they will fight. We haven’t hurt them, just made
them morepliant,” he states.
“What Pact?” I asked, a little confused.
“The King never told you?” He asks, and I nce around at the crowd of onlookers watching me.
“Regardless, I am here to administer the serum, ask the questions, and choose punishment if
necessary.”
“15 minutes, love Keep stalling. Leave the link open, so I can hear what is going on. Help ising.”
Kyson says in my head. I swallow when Mr. Crux approaches with a vial.
“The Landeena Kingdom, head to the castle your Queen needs you,” Kyson calls through the link. I
didn’t have time to process his words, and I knew the town was a good 15 minutes from the hill on
which the castle stood.
“What is this about?” I ask, knowing full well by the woman standing on the other side of the gates
watching me. Denali follows my gaze and motions for one of the guards to let her in. The gate is
opened beside me, and the smug bitch steps inside her heeled boots clinking on the stone driveway
before they close it nearly jamming my fingers. She moves behind me and stops beside him, folding
her arms across her chest.
“Cassandra,” I snarl.
“So you do know each other, wonderful. Cassandra here says youmanded Abbie to reject her
husband, Alpha Kade and made him
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ept the rejection, she also ims that you also stole the pack’s future Luna,” Denali says.
“That is not true. Abbie tried rejecting him. He was abusing her,” I told Denali before ring at
Cassandra. “With her help,” I growled.
“That wasn’t what I asked. I asked if you abused your power as the King’s Mate and broke a sacredw
regarding mate bonds?”
“As I said, he was abusing Abbie. He sexually assaulted her,”
“And where is Abbie to verify this?” Denali asks, tilting his head toward me. He nods to Mr. Crux, who
moves toward me with the vial. I clench my teeth together.
“Kyson!” I rush through the mindlink.
“Any minute,” Kyson replies when Denali grabs my hair ripping my head back while Mr. Crux pinches
my cheeks, stuffing the vial in my mouth. Denali checks his watch while I cough and gag at its taste, yet
something about it reminded me of Kyson.
“You can fight the effects,” Kyson links to me. “Focus, love, that serum is made from my blood. You can
resist it,” he tells me.
A minute or so goes past, and Mr.Crux nods to Denali.
“Did youmand Luna Abbie to reject her mate, Alpha Kade?” Denali asks. I grit my teeth. Fear so
palpable it made goosebumps rise on my skin as the urge to answer rolled through me, making my
body tense.
“Nearly there, fight it,” Kyson snarls when I hear amotion outside the gates. Denali nces out the
gates to the cobble road where Kade’s pack stood before waving some of his men to sort whatever is
happening out. They rush out the gates, and Kade’s pack members murmur amongst themselves
looking down the road.
“Answer me,” Denali demands. I don’t know what Kyson meant about fighting it. Fighting against it
caused me to break out in a sweat, my stomach twisting painfully.
“Yes,” I gasped. Fighting breaks out outside the gates and down in the gully before the driveway in.
Denali looks toward themotion outside the gates.
“Enough proof, bring the whip,” he says, wandering off to talk to someone behind me. I look over my
shoulder, twisting my neck to see what is going on behind me. I gulp when I see the barbed whip in the
man’s hand, Denali was talking to the man with one eye, ncing nervously back at me.
“Tell them Imanded you too,” Kyson yelled through the bond.
“I can’t,” I said.
“You can and fucking will, your pregnant Azalea, tell them Imanded you too,” I try to open my
mouth to lie, yet whatever the truth serum contained wouldn’t allow me to breathe a lie.
“Azalea!” Kyson booms in my head. I choke on the words, trying to spit them.
“Don’t you dare fight me? I’m sorry, love, I have no choice,” he murmurs when I feel hismand
smash me through the bond and mind link. It rolled over me, causing crippling pain as he ordered me
to me him.
“Kyson ordered me to do it,” I blurted. Mr. Crux gripped my face, and Denali came back over.
“Excuse me?” Denali asks.
“Say it again!” Kysonmanded through the bond, sweat glistened on my skin, and I felt like I would
be sick.
“The King ordered me tomand them,” I choked out, gasping for air. Denali and Mr.Crux look at
each other before turning to Cassandra.
“Is what she says true?” Denali asks her. She opens her mouth and closes it.
“Well?” Denali snaps.
.
”
I don’t know. I only got there to see hermand them both. What does it matter? She still did it,”
Cassandra says in her nasal voice.
“Good girl,” Kyson says, letting themand slide off me.
Denali and Mr. Crux talk amongst themselves while Cassandra digs her smokes out of her leather
jacket.
“How could you, after everything you did to her?” I ask Cassandra. She pops her hip, lighting a smoke
before stepping closer.
“My husband is dead because of her. Your mate killed him. I now have to raise my kids without their
father because of that bitch,” Cassandra spits at me. I growl, my canines slipping past my gums as
anger courses through me. She turned to face the council members who were whispering amongst
themselves behind me.
“She stillmanded them, but I have one more question before we proceed.” I turn my head, and he
steps closer.
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“Did you know it was against thew to break a mate bond against their will?” Denali asks. My brows
furrow, wondering why he was asking, yet the urge to answer hit me instantly.
“Yes.” I breathe
“And you still did it?” Denali asks.
“He was hurting her, so yes,”
“Well then, regardless of whether the Kingmanded you, you knew better. Being his mate, you are
capable of fighting hismands, therefore will be held ountable,” Cassandra smirks at his words
puffing on her cigarette.
“What are they going to do to me?” I asked Mr.Crux, who was still standing beside me. Though I
already knew by the whip in Kendricks’s hand. My heart raced a little faster when Mr. Crux started
ripping the back of my dress open.
“You broke a sacredw, you may be the King’s Mate, but you abused your authority, so you will be
punished. 1000shes, or until Cassandra deems fit,” he chuckles. “About time the King is held
ountable for errors,” Mr.Crux sneered. I swallowed and chuckled.
“Silly girl, just because you’re the King’s mate, that doesn’t give you the power to break thew,”
“He was abusing her,” I scream at him.
“And where is your proof?” Mr.Crux demands.
“Ask me, or is your truth serum, not 100 percent,” I spat back at him. He grips my chin, pinching it
tightly.
“Truth or not, you broke thew. We uphold it. We were looking for a reason to take him down, but if we
can’t, you will do,” heughed.
“Coward,” Iughed. Mr. Crux grips my hair, yanking my head back painfully.
“Oh, Kendrick will. He won’t hold back, not after the king took his sight,” I swallow, and my breathing
bes a little harsher.
“Your people areing. Tell them who you are. It will buy you some time, I didn’t want to risk but we
have no choice”
“What?
“Your parents-” I didn’t get a chance to listen to what he said when I felt the crack of the whip bite into
my flesh, making me scream, hooks shed up my spine and dug into my shoulder, and my scream
was deafening when he ripped them out.
My knees buckle underneath me. My blood sprays across those on the other side of the fence when all
hell breaks loose. Kade’s pack starts running toward the fence, suddenly trying to get in. My knees
dragged across the ground from the force of the gate being pushed inward. I couldn’t see past them to
see what was happening and didn’t care when the whip tore into me again.
Gunshots rang out, and I hung limply in handcuffs, my wrist bent backward painfully and on the verge
of snapping under my weight. I feel the barbs tear out of my skin, ripping my flesh away. My head hung
limply, and all I could think about was the pain radiating through my back when someone’s head was
shoved through the iron-barred gates beside me. I blink deliriously, finding it odd. How did it fit through
the bars?
Screams rang out loudly, but all I could do was blink at the man’s head stuck between the bars. It took
me a few moments to realize he only had a torso, from the waist down was missing. My head rolls to
the side, and I see the men in armor backing up, guns trained down the driveway as they fire. I thought
my eyes were deceiving me when I watched around 50 Lycans ripping into Kade’s pack members and
the council’s men, ripping them limb from limb. People running everywhere to escape.
I couldn’t tear my gaze away from the horrors on the other side of the gate, my eyes wide, and I felt
sick to my stomach. I could hear screaming, and I turned my head to find it was Cassandra. Her hands
cupped her mouth as she watched her pack getting torn to shreds. Suddenly I dropped to the ground,
and I didn’t even realize someone was uncuffing me. My body was limp as I stared around at the
ughter. Hands grab me ripping me against someone’s chest. My back arches as I try to get the
pressure away from my back.
Secondster, the iron gates burst open, and I had a knife pressed to my throat by the person holding
me as the Lycans stalked into the castle grounds.
I was vaguely aware of Kyson talking to me, yet I could not understand what he was trying to tell me.
“Get the car ready?” Denali says. The Lycans circle us before dropping on their knees around us. The
whole thing was surreal as I looked around, trying to figure out what was happening, when I noticed
Dustin roll as he started to wake.
“Take so much as one step toward us, and I will kill her. You have all just interfered with the council.
There are severe penalties for obstructing justice.” Denali says, walking past me to address the Lycan’s
kneeling.
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