Defying the Lycan King (Kira and Derek) novel Chapter 201

Chapter 201: The Least of Your Worries

Olivia sat still behind the steering wheel of her parked vehicle, her eyes glued to the opposite side of the quiet street. Across the road, Brian’s mother was walking casually toward her white family van, completely unaware that she was being watched by a Lycan.

This was the last place where Olivia had managed to track Brian’s digital footprint. After this spot, the trail simply went cold. Brian had gone dark, switched off, vanished off the map entirely, and no matter what she tried, Olivia could not pick his location back up.

But she knew her husband. She knew him better than he ever gave her credit for. And she knew, with absolute certainty, that sooner or later, Brian would call his mother.

The one person in the world he truly cared about. That woman was the single thread still tying him to anything, and if Olivia followed it patiently enough, it would lead her straight back to him.

And she needed to find Brian. Fast.

She watched as the older woman climbed into her van, pulled the door shut, and started the engine. The vehicle rolled out of the drive and onto the road.

Olivia waited a beat, and then put her own car into drive. She pulled out smoothly from the kerb, following the white van from a very safe, careful distance, keeping enough cars between them so she wouldn’t look like a total stalker.

***

"Answer me, Kai. Are you breaking up with me right now?" Jessica asked again, her voice cracking as she followed him into her own bedroom.

The shock of his words was making her head spin faster than a merry-go-round.

Kai did not answer straight away. He simply moved around the room, gathering her belongings, folding them quickly, pushing them down into her bag.

"Kai—"

"How could we ever break up?" he said at last, turning to face her. "Jessica, you are my soul bond. It doesn’t work that way."

He went back to shoving her things into the bag. "I just need you to lay low for a bit until I figure out how things are actually going to play out in Dravengard for the next few weeks. The political situation here is about to turn into a total circus."

He zipped the bag shut and lifted it off the bed with one strong arm.

He walked right up to her, grabbed her cold hand, and started leading her out of the bedroom. "I need you to do something else for me too. You need to get rid of your mobile phone immediately. Throw it in a river. Smash it with a rock. If possible, buy a new one, a clean one later."

"Why?" Jessica asked, stumbling slightly as she tried to keep up with his long strides.

"Just do as I say, please. It’s for your own good." His grip tightened gently. "I have a place in one of the human territories. You and your parents can stay there comfortably. Because right now, none of you are safe in any Western pack territory. Out there, among humans, no one will think to look."

Jessica did not like the sound of any of it. And underneath the fear, there was something worse, a cold, creeping certainty she couldn’t shake, a feeling that once she walked out of this palace, she might never see Kai again.

"How about Kira?" she asked softly, her heart aching for her missing friend. "What happens to her?"

Kai sighed. "If we find her, and we will, it’ll be between her and Derek. That’s not something I can take out of his hands." He paused. "But I’ll do everything I can. I’ll intervene as much as I’m able to. I promise you that."

"What if he kills her?" Jessica whispered.

"He won’t," Kai said. But he did not quite look at her when he said it. "Now, come on."

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