Defying the Lycan King (Kira and Derek) novel Chapter 151

Chapter 151: Mate Bomb

A few days later...

"Your leg has healed beautifully," Dr Adah said, easing the last of the cast away.

Kira and Jessica were both lounging in the palace living room, surrounded by cushions and half-empty teacups. Kira flexed her newly freed ankle and let out a dramatic sigh of relief.

"Finally," she muttered. "I was starting to feel like a pirate with a wooden leg."

Dr Adah smiled as she packed away her tools. "The speed of your healing is remarkable. It might be because your wolf is finally awakening."

Kira sat up straighter, eyes sparkling with interest. She seized the opportunity immediately. "Really?"

"Yes," Dr Adah said, nodding. "If she is finally beginning to stir, your body will heal more like a shifter’s than a human’s."

Kira had been waiting for an opening like this to ask her questions. "How does that work, exactly? When a wolf awakens, are there signs? Symptoms? Something I should feel coming?"

Dr Adah considered the question. "I don’t know much about werewolf anatomy, but I’ll answer with the little I know."

She straightened up. "In most people, the wolf simply arrives one day, quietly and speaks to you. But in others, it can be triggered. Intense emotional distress, sometimes. Severe physical training. Even extreme joy has been known to bring a beast forward for the first time. Strong feeling, generally. The wolf answers when the body calls loudly enough."

Kira turned that over in her mind.

She had stopped ingesting whatever poison they fed her in Moonfang, which had kept her weak and dormant for so long. By every measure, her wolf should have surfaced by now. So why hadn’t she? What was still holding the door shut?

"You should do light exercises, Your Highness, to strengthen your bones," Dr Adah said, ready to leave.

Kira nodded. "Thank you, doctor."

Once Dr Adah had left, Kira turned to Jessica with a mischievous grin that could only mean trouble.

Jessica raised one eyebrow suspiciously. "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Kira leaned forward, resting her chin on her hand. "Spill."

"Spill what?"

"You and Kai," Kira said, eyes twinkling. "And don’t even try to lie to me, Jessica Ashfang. I’ve seen the way you both look at each other."

Jessica opened her mouth and closed it. She looked at the ceiling, then the window, then her own hands, visiting every possible escape route and finding all of them blocked. She sighed and dropped her face into her hands for a second before peeking through her fingers.

"Fine. I don’t know how to say this," she said finally.

"Try."

Jessica exhaled. "Kai is my mate."

Kira’s jaw dropped so fast it nearly hit the floor. Her eyes widened comically, almost popping out of their sockets.

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