From Rejected Luna To Lycan Queen (Eloise and Edward) novel Chapter 364

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Chapter 364 The Nightmare

Chapter 364 The Nightmare

ZARA.

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He wasn’t supposed to be here. This memory didn’t belong to him. No, his was much darker. Twisted and raw in a way that scared me more than Kyle ever did.

“No, no, no,” I choked. “Wake up, Zara, Wake the fuck up.”

I grabbed fistfuls of my hair and rocked, eyes squeezed shut, trying to claw my way back to my body. I crushed the rising memory down before it could breathe.

Not that.

Not that night. I couldn’t relive that.

Please. Anything but that night.

Wake up, Zara.

The voice was distant, muffled, like it had to fight through water to reach me. I couldn’t grab onto it.

Kyle’s low chuckle swallowed the sound.

“You’ll always be mine, little kitty. You can run all you want, but I will always find you.”

It didn’t happen like this. This isn’t real. This is just my mind conjuring up every fear at once. A sick, twisted game. I was desperate to keep the other memory buried. The one clawing its way forward now that Liam was here.

I stared at Kyle’s boots, refusing to look higher. If I didn’t see his face, maybe it wouldn’t feel real. Liam stepped closer, and the concrete warped, stretching him into shadows that bled toward me like oil.

Wake up, darling.

That familiar voice came again, closer this time.

Urgent.

But I couldn’t.

I fucking couldn’t.

A sob tore out of me, raw and broken, and then Liam’s face pushed into view anyway, eyes glowing orange. His smile stretched wrong. Too wide. Too knowing.

That was my true fear.

Not Kyle.

Him.

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Chapter 364 The Nightmare

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CASSIAN.

I crouched behind the dumpster and dragged my duffel out, shaking my head as I pulled on a pair of black sweatpants. The last thing I needed was someone walking by the alley and seeing me standing by the dumpster naked.

I needed to get this done fast if I wanted to get back to Zara before she woke up.

Shadow.

The name settled into place in my head, and I let it stick. I’d never bothered naming him before. Maybe because he was just…me. But it felt right that she’d done it. Like she’d seen something in us and decided it deserved a name.

“I can’t believe she named you.” I said.

The fox puffed up in my chest like he’d just been handed a crown and a tiny royal cape.

‘Shadow is a good name.

I snorted. “It’s a terrible name. You’re glowing dark. You’re basically a fluffy menace,” I muttered, fishing my phone out of the bag.

‘She likes me.

That shut me up. I wanted her to like him, Maybe that would mean, eventually, she’d like me too. Which was a stupid, dangerous thought, so obviously my brain held onto it like a dog with a bone.

“Yeah. She does like you, Shadowie boy.”

The fox preened, smug as hell, basking in it like he’d personally won her over with charm and not, you know, just existing. He was basically an emotional support animal.

‘She smiled at me.

“She smiled because she thought you were a stray animal. That’s not the same thing.”

He ignored my logic and argued, ‘she laughed

when she pet me. I made her happy.

That was all my fox wanted. To make our mate happy.

He wasn’t wrong. I hadn’t been prepared for the sound of it. Soft and surprised, like it didn’t get used enough. Like it had to fight its way out of her. I wanted to hear it again. I huffed out a quiet laugh of my own, shaking my head.

“Okay buddy, I’ll give you that. Youdid make her happy.”

He settled deeper into my ribs, warm and satisfied I’d admitted it.

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Chapter 364 The Nightmare

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I’d never let anyone pet my fox before, and I wasn’t ashamed to admit I’d leaned into her touch like an affection–starved house cat.

‘I want to go back to her.‘

“We will, but we gotta call Dorian.” I glanced up toward the fire escape, toward the dark window above us.. “We need to know if this Kyle guy is actually the dead husband… or if he’s someone else still after our girl. And the only one who can find that out fast, is Lucien.”

“The bond needs to protect her.

“No shit, Sherlock. What the fuck do you think I’m doing out here before dawn? Like I want to be out here instead of curled up in her bed. We need Dorian and Lucien and I couldn’t risk her seeing me shift in her tiny flat. I don’t wanna scare her.”

‘Worth it. She needs to know everything.

Absolutely not worth it, I remembered what Hades said and I had to admit the dragon had a point. We needed to handle telling her all of this delicately and I wasn’t the one level headed enough to spill the beans. I sighed and leaned back against the brick wall.

“I’m not arguing this with you. The sooner I call Dorian, the sooner we can go back upstairs.”

I glanced up at the fire escape again and rubbed a hand over my face, bracing myself for the real argument I knew was about to happen with my brother.

I powered on my phone and dialed Dorian.

He wasn’t going to like this.

Dorian hated surprises. He hated it even more when I went off and did my own thing. The last time I did that, I changed a random street fighter and brought home a dragon!

Oops.

Which meant he was going to really hate it when I refused to listen to his orders unless it involved Zara being safely tucked away on the island.

The phone rang twice before he picked up.

“This better be important. It’s five a.m..”

“It is,” I said, as I glanced up toward her window,

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