I Bought A Male Escort, Turns Out He's The Lycan King (by lg savage) novel Chapter 221

Chapter 221

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The forest behind Nathan’s lodge smelled like damp earth, pine and my anticipation. There was also the faint metallic tang of weapons, and the nervous sweat of wolves.

Why had they come for me if they were so nervous?

1 shifted and crouched behind the trees, waiting for April to catch up. The wolves and humans gathering on the main road just outside the forest hadn’t noticed me yet, I’d thought it was because masking myself had become my default setting, but I realised it was because Nathan’s wards were much more powerful than I’d first realised.

Not only couldn’t those useless people break in, but they hadn’t card my wolf hurtling through the forest towards them. I hadn’t even made the effort to be silent.

“Bring Fiona here,” someone hissed. “We can’t disable the protections.”

“Whose idea was it to follow the rogue?” another asked. “The woman he brought back isn’t the one we’re looking for. Why did we come all this way?”

“Just follow your orders, Gary,” another growled. “This will be over in a few days.”

I did a headcount while they tried to figure out how to get in. For wolves in their primal forms, standing on full alert, surrounding the others. And the three humans who smelled strongly of magic and had silver weapons strapped to their bodies.

“This isn’t what we signed up for. We’re harassing innocent people,” Gary complained again.

“Shut up,” the older man snapped. “That woman is part of it. She lived with the Lycan King for months; she’s as corrupt as they all are.”

My brows lifted. They were after April. I turned back to watch as April approached in her human form. Even in the dying light, her wounds were visible, and she walked with a slight limps she stepped over the rocks and underbrush.

So I’d been right about the pack aggression, just not which pack. Someone had been hunting April.

The rage that was constantly simmering in my chest flared briefly before settling again. April refused to talk, so I wouldn’t ask. It was her business. What I cared about was that these peopl had now landed on my doorstep, and that thing inside me called for their blood.

“Can you see them?” she whispered.

She hadn’t shifted to follow me, Maybe the wolfsbane that was poventing her healing also prevented her shifting. Her fear still hung over her head, and her body trembled visibly. I could sent her wolf’s emotions in the air, and all she wanted to do was run and hide. When she’d been with us before the fight during my first full moon, she hadn’t been that scared.

This was probably a stupid idea. I could deal with this on my ow without April holding me back.

“Stay behind me,” I whispered.

The wolves in front of us didn’t even pick that up. Were the wards soundproofed, too? If I dragged one of them in here, how loudly could he scream before the others noticed?

I pushed that thought aside and calmed the rush in my blood, b hunger gnawed at my throat. Last night, Hunter had interrupted me, but tonight would be mine.

“Maybe we should go back,” April whispered back. “Even if you shift and show me how to fight, my wolf is nothing like yours. All of them are bigger than me.”

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Shift? I wanted to break these people with my bare hands. To show just how worthless their challenge was.

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My wolf stirred again, her thoughts bleeding into mine. The comforting warmth of my magic wrapped around her, merging us like before. When I looked back at the people looking for a way in, my vision was already tinged with red around the edges.

Maybe I’d truly lost my mind. I couldn’t recognise this version of myself, this version that only thought of blood and screams, but I didn’t want to stop.

“Then I will show you how to defend yourself without shifting,” said.

April tensed beside me, but I was already moving. I straightened and stepped out from behind my cover. I didn’t bother to summon the shadows as I walked towards the arguing group. I catalogued every weapon, every raised heartbeat, every nervous tick.

Only one person remained calm. My gaze snapped to him as he stood right in front of the wards, his aura bleeding out of him as if he didn’t care about the other wolves around him who stood with their ears slightly flattened and their tails between their legs. An alpha like Justin, only much stronger.

A worthier opponent.

Branches snapped under my feet, and finally, the alpha turned to me. He didn’t back away when I approached the edge of the wards. He stood still, his full aura bleeding out of him. The other wolves whimpered and backed away, unable to withstand his strength. Gold eyes stared directly into mine in a blatant challenge.

A shiver rolled down my spine. It was happening exactly as it had with Justin, only there wasn’t an ounce of fear from this wolf. He was the challenge I’d been looking for.

The red haze completely covered my vision as adrenaline rushed down my spine. My heart pounded so loud in my ears that I was sure they could all hear it now.

“She’s the one Alpha Bronson is looking for,” one of the coven members whispered.

“Shh!”

But I wasn’t paying attention to them. I hadn’t taken my eyes off the large brown wolf in front of me.

The smile slowly returned to my face, and I stepped past the edge of Nathan’s wards. I felt their warmth slide over my skin before sealing behind me. My eyes remained locked on my prey on every little movement, on the sound of his steady heartbeat. My whole world had become this large brown alpha who’d offered himself to me.

And then I shifted into a defensive stance, holding my fists up in front of me.

“What’s she doing? Is she not a wolf? Why isn’t she shifting?”

“This is what Bronson spoke of. She’s unstable and unable to make the right judgments. Such a person can’t lead us.”

The brown wolf lunged without hesitation, but I was quicker, I dodged to the side and rounded back on him with a kick to his ribs. My strike felt stronger. I heard the crack of his bone as e absorbed the force of my bare foot, but he didn’t yelp or whimper. He didn’t give me what I wanted. The moment he landed on his feet, he turned on me again. He was no longer as calm as he’d been.

His gold eyes burned with rage. When he came for me again, I beneath his body and aimed for the same rib, hearing another crunch. This time, he whimpered, and it shot right throgh me.

That was it. We were finally getting somewhere.

The movements came to me as naturally as they had when Malught them to me. I didn’t give him a moment to catch his breath as I switched between fighting styles and used my speed and size to my advantage.

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The yelps and whimpers came more easily. My knuckles were covered in his blood. The thing inside me soared, whispering for me to take more, feeding the magic and my wolf. Strength flooded my bloodstream with every hit, every snap of a bone, every step back that the alpha took for me.

And then finally, I tasted his fear in the air. A hunger I hadn’t felt before clawed up my chest, and the smile that had been on my face the whole time faded. I was still not satisfied, yet the alpha was backing away.

My claws descended, and my canines extended as my wolf pressed forward. My whole body vibrated with the urge to finish what he had started before he’d given up so quickly.

A blur of black fur intercepted him, slamming into his side before he could back away any further.

Nathan.

He’d interrupted my hunt.

The two wolves rolled down the road, Nathan’s snarls cutting through the night. He tore through the wolf’s neck and flung him aside like he weighed nothing. When he rounded on the others, they’d already lowered, whimpering, offering their necks to him in submission.

And the coven had already jumped into their car. I could have chased after them, but my gaze was still on the wolf who’d taken what was mine.

Nathan shifted and rushed to me, his snarl still on his face as blood dripped to his bare chest.

“I told you not to fucking leave the wards,” he snarled, grabbing my arms.

Anger rolled off him in waves, almost matching my own. I’d never seen him like that before. But underneath it, I caught what was really driving it. Fear.

The red bled from my vision, and my claws retracted. I glanced behind me, at the injured omega still hiding behind the

trees.

“This isn’t a game, Your Majesty,” he said, releasing me as he stepped back. “You don’t get to play with other people’s lives, you don’t get to drag innocent people into your shit.”

The adrenaline rush completely faded from my veins, even as I scented the terror from the wolves still crouched and whimpering near their dead alpha.

Nathan dragged a hand over his bloody face, and then tensed when he looked behind me at April. The anger faded, and all that remained was the fear, and something else that I’d sensed brewing in him for a long time.

He turned away.

“Take her back inside.”

Without waiting for a response, he shifted again and disappeared into the forest, his black form melting into the shadows.

April finally let out a shaky breath behind me. Had I gone too far This calm inside me felt like a lifeline, but was it? Could I stop it?

But the hunger was still there, restless under my skin, already waiting for the next hunt.

Deep in my chest, my wolf didn’t feel like the hunt had been interrupted; she felt like it had been denied. And she was already looking for someone else to bleed.

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