Curves And Claws: The Lycan King's Relentless Claim novel Chapter 136

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Chapter 136

Chapter 136

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“It’s pathetic,” I finally found myself saying. The lack of regret in her eyes, the casual tone of her voice, made my blood boil. To me, children were worth everything.

I took a sharp breath, my jaw tightening as the last shred of respect I had for her as a she-wolf vanished within seconds. “But it’s your choice. As if I care about you or your child.”

I closed my eyes again, my breathing uneven, my chest rising too fast for comfort.

“Don’t you want to know why we did it?” she asked. “Why I’m betraying Cassian?”

I scoffed softly, the sound scraping out of my throat, choosing to stay quiet. Still, she kept staring at me, her gaze heavy and probing, as if she could drill straight through my skull and force an answer out of me.

“Why would I?” I replied at last, forcing my voice to stay flat even as my fingers curled against my palm. “It’s your personal choice. And knowing you can kill your own child for your selfishness, betraying Cassian doesn’t sound that bad.”

Her eyes widened instantly. A sharp breath tore from her chest, as if I had knocked the air out of her lungs. Her shoulders stiffened, lips parting in shock.

“Don’t you like him? Shouldn’t you be angry?” she pressed. There was offense in her tone now, as if my indifference irritated her more than my accusation.

“Will anything change if I get angry?” I muttered. My gaze drifted back to Cassian, locked in combat with Tyran as if the world beyond them didn’t exist. “Look at that idiot. Fighting, thinking you need him.” My throat tightened. “All I feel is pity. I would have gotten over this long ago and spoken my peace.”

“You’re so stone-hearted,” she snorted, folding her arms tighter across her chest.

“Can you even compare yourself to me?” I replied coldly. My lips pressed into a thin line. “All I see when I look at you is selfishness, manipulation, and someone undeniably unworthy of love.”

Her head snapped back toward me, jaw clenching so hard I could see the muscle twitch. “Unworthy of love?”

“Yeah,” I said, my voice steady despite the faint tremor creeping into my limbs. My shoulders felt heavy, weighted down by exhaustion. “I don’t understand what you think you’ll gain. At the end of the day, you’ll be tossed aside with your little mate. After sacrificing your child, all that awaits you is heartbreak. I’m glad you’re not Cassian’s mate. He doesn’t deserve a woman like you.”

“You don’t know anything about me. You don’t get to comment—

“You’re killing your child to break free from Tyran,” I cut in, my breath turning shallow. My head throbbed faintly. “So you can leave with Marco, right?”

Her eyes widened further, pupils shaking. Her breath hitched, and her gaze darted to Marco, then to Tyran, then back to me. “How did you know that?”

“It’s obvious,” I scoffed weakly, a bitter curve tugging at my lips. “But you’re stupid. Tyran is just an Alpha wolf. He can’t even win against that Lycan. If you had been honest, if you hadn’t betrayed Cassian, he would’ve given you everything. Freedom. Safety. Happiness.” My chest tightened painfully. “You abandoned an entire green forest for a scumbag who will eventually abandon you.”

She struggled to breathe now, her chest rising rapidly, almost frantically. Her gaze flicked again to Marco fighting Lorenzo, then back to me. “Marco would never do that. He loves me. He loves us.”

Chapter 136

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I didn’t respond. I only cast her a brief sideways glance before my eyes returned to Cassian. The Lycan King looked devastatingly perfect even now, blood and sweat clinging to his skin. Pain throbbed through me, yet my heart reacted traitorously, tightening in a way I hated.

I wondered what went through his mind when he first saw that his beloved woman was pregnant. And what about Carolyn? Did he move on from Elle to be with Carolyn?

At the end of it all, I found myself trapped in an impossible situation, unsure of what to think, what to believe. My thoughts. felt heavy, sluggish.

I took a sharp breath as my body gradually began to go numb, a strange cold spreading through my limbs. I wanted to tell Cassian that Elle was setting him up, that everything was a lie. But I had no strength left, not even to lift my hand.

However, just when I thought she would keep her mouth shut, she spoke again.

“We aren’t Southern,” she began.

I barely listened at first, my focus drifting, ears ringing faintly.

“We weren’t even born in the Southern Region. My father was a personal advisor to Tyran’s father. He hated Cassian’s father. There was an untold conflict between the two regions.” Her voice steadied as she continued. “My father used that chance to get close to the former Alpha King. He exploited his softness toward Cassian’s elder brother and manipulated him into fleeing the pack to protect his son.”

She looked at Cassian with something disturbingly tender in her gaze, her expression softening in a way that made my skin

crawl.

“The former Alpha King believed it was better to abandon his youngest son, who was already powerful at ten, than to keep his eldest under the enemies’ watch,” she said. “He wanted all the attention and danger to shift to Cassian.”

My chest tightened painfully, breath stalling halfway in. I had always thought Cassian’s father hated him for being stronger than his elder brother, that he couldn’t bear it and created a smaller pack for his favored son.

But it had been far more twisted.

“However,” she continued, meeting my eyes, “he didn’t want to abandon Cassian completely. My father convinced him that Cassian being a Lycan would eventually turn him into a threat to his own brother. They believed it was safer to leave. So they left him with us.”

She chuckled softly, the sound hollow. “He trusted us. Respected us. Treated us like family. He didn’t know my father wanted him as a puppet.”

“And he didn’t become one,” I said quietly, my hands trembling as they pressed into the sand beneath me.

She nodded once. “That’s why we planned everything. The original plan was to bring Cassian here and kill him while my father took over. But we underestimated him

Every time we tried, he survived.” Her lips tightened. “And he never doubted

us.”

She sounded more frustrated than remorseful now. Even

at this moment, there wasn’t a trace of regret for betraying him.

“Then why the kidnapping? Why drag it on for five years?” My voice came out sharper than I intended, my throat burning.

She looked at Cassian again. “We didn’t drag it out. He did.”

I followed her gaze, confusion knotting painfully in my chest. “What do you mean?”

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