Defying the Lycan King (Kira and Derek) novel Chapter 192

Chapter 192: Careless Men Make Mistakes

By the time the first grey light of dawn crept over Dravengard, two truckloads of warriors, the same men Derek had ridden out with to dismantle Rolf’s pack, came rumbling back through the broken gates.

The whole estate still lay in ruins from the night’s battle.

Derek sat in the front passenger seat, staring blankly out of the window, fury churning slow and black in his chest.

Physically, he looked like he had been dragged through a hedge backwards. He had dark soot patches on his face from the explosion, a deep gash near his temple that had only half-healed, and a nasty split lip.

The vehicle rolled to a stop in front of the medical centre. Instantly, teams of nurses and doctors scrambled out of the building, wheeling stretchers and carrying oxygen masks towards the trucks to tend to the heavily wounded gammas.

Derek opened his door and climbed out of the vehicle with a visible effort, his muscles aching.

Someone along the way had given him a casual shirt and a pair of khaki trousers. His left arm still hung at a slightly awkward, stiff angle from the painful dislocation he had popped back in himself.

He stood by the truck, his eyes sweeping over the courtyard. He could see gammas from various allied Western packs carrying in the wounded fighters of Dravengard, helping each other like true brothers in arms. His stomach churned at the sheer scale of the chaos.

"Oh, Derek, dear!"

Nana’s voice cried out behind him. He turned to see her hurrying over, leaning on the arm of Dot, her personal maid.

His second unit had told him of the chaos here the moment he reached them, but seeing it was another thing entirely.

"Nana." He crossed to her quickly, his eyes raking over her.

There was a small cut glinting at the corner of her eye, and a bandage wound around her wrist. Something in his chest twisted painfully at the sight of it.

"Did you fight?" he asked, incredulous.

Nana sighed. "I had to, my dear. They were far too many, and our men were so badly outnumbered. They struck us out of nowhere. We all had to throw ourselves into it. Every one of us."

Derek drew her into him with his good arm and held her.

"How are you holding up?" Nana asked against his shoulder, her voice cracking with emotion. She pulled back slightly, looking up at him with worried eyes. "Please tell me the others are fine. Tell me you didn’t lose anyone out there."

Derek did not reply immediately. He looked away, his jaw clenching tightly. "We lost some men. As for the others...we will have to wait and see the final medical reports," he said quietly.

Then, shaking off the grim thought, he looked back at her. "How are you and my brothers? Kai, Tan, Aunt Angelica, everyone. Tell me I didn’t lose anyone."

Nana quickly wiped a stray tear from her cheek and managed a small, reassuring nod. "They are alive. They are inside being treated. They are going to be fine."

The knot in his chest eased, just barely. He pressed a kiss to her hair. "Go and rest now, Nana. Please."

"You need to rest as well, young man," Nana countered, giving him a stern grandmotherly look. "You look like death warmed up."

Derek nodded politely, but in his mind, rest was the last thing on his agenda. He wasn’t going to sleep a single wink until he tracked down every single traitor and mastermind involved in this coordinated attack and made them pay in blood.

As Nana and Dot shuffled away, Dr Lorenzo approached.

"Your Grace," the man said bowing slightly.

"I must insist you come inside with me immediately for a full neurological workup. I have just received information from your men that you lost consciousness for quite some time after the explosion. Head trauma is not something we can simply ignore, regardless of how well you believe you feel right now."

Derek let out a grumpy sigh, nodding his head in agreement. He turned to follow Dr Lorenzo inside the clinic when a gamma from the third unit came striding up, calling for him.

Derek turned to face him.

"Your Grace." The gamma bowed. "We succeeded in capturing the girl."

Derek gave a single nod at the sweaty gamma’s announcement. His face didn’t change, but his eyes turned completely icy.

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