I Bought A Male Escort, Turns Out He's The Lycan King (by lg savage) novel Chapter 223

Chapter 223

Chapter 223

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The blood had already dried on my knuckles-the alpha’s blood and mine. I flexed my fingers, ignoring the tight pull on my skin. The pain had helped. It kept everything focused. That hunger still buzzed under my skin, my fists aching with the need to hit something again, but there was nothing left to hit.

April hovered behind me silently, but she was still alert, still safe behind the wards. She’d stopped trying to ask me to go back in twenty minutes ago when she realised I wasn’t listening.

The three wolves still crouched in the road, still whimpering. They were weak. Not worthy of my efforts to fight or hunt. My aura was still completely masked, yet they hadn’t made any moves. I should have gone after the coven. At least with their poisoned weapons and magic, I could have had a real fight.

I huffed and turned to them, but they flinched as if I’d already attacked. My lips curled into a snarl. How could these be the hunters sent to me?

“Shift,” I growled.

The command rippled through the quiet night, and their whimpers intensified as the pain hit. A forced shift never felt good. Bones cracked and reformed, fur receded, and the wolf bodies disappeared as their naked human forms collapsed in front of me, gasping for breath.

They were young, and none of them was familiar. Their scents didn’t belong to any pack I knew. With the way their bodies trembled, I doubted they had any real hunting experience. I almost felt insulted that Harris Bronson had sent them to me.

No, he hadn’t sent them to me.

I glanced back at April.

“You know them?”

She tensed but shook her head. I smelled the lie in the air and cocked my head towards her. Her gaze dropped, her wolf still hovering near panic even though the danger had passed.

“Shall we go back?” she tried again.

Go back. Give up the hunt before it started. Leave these wolves breathing. None of that sat right with me.

My senses prickled. Something was coming. In the distance, the hum of an engine drifted to my ears, and my blood warmed again. The hunters had sent reinforcements. But as the engines got closer, the wolves on the ground heard them, too, and their panic overrode their fear. These weren’t the

people.

“Please don’t kill us,” one of them said. “We just go where we are ordered to. We don’t know why we’re here.”

They hadn’t made a move to help their alpha during the fight. They were telling the truth.

“They told us to snatch the girl,” another said.

April froze behind me.

“Why?”

“I don’t know. Leverage.”

How did they know who April was? I turned back to her just as headlights appeared at the top of the road. The auras inside were stronger and more controlled than the wolves in front of me. Lycans. They weren’t sneaking up on me, just driving

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openly. Hunter had sent them.

My fingers curled. Hunter again.

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The unmarked van stopped, and four Lycans jumped out in full gear but without the Bureau insignia. They didn’t look at me directly, but they bowed briefly before moving. They were efficient. They grabbed the body and then the trembling young wolves, bundling them into the back.

A cleanup crew.

One of them pulled out equipment and jetwashed the blood from the road. Another sprayed chemicals that burned my nose as they erased every trace of what had happened.

Then one spoke into his comms. “One dead. Three detained. No resistance.”

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They got back into the car, and the engine roared back to life. Then they were gone, leaving me on a road that looked untouched. They had undone my chaos.

My fists clenched as I spun back towards the forest and crossed the wards. The urge to follow them and finish the job, to push this thing further, still burned, but it was duller now. It was just a heavy throb under my ribs.

April followed behind me without a word, and when we stepped back into the lodge, I stopped.

“There’s food in the kitchen. And a bedroom back there. Eat and sleep.”

Eat and get out of my hair, let me think. That’s what I meant to say.

“I’m not hungry,” April whispered. “I’ll leave you now, Your Majesty.”

My fists clenched again at that title. Your Majesty. I belonged to the Lycan King now.

I sank onto the couch, staring at the blood on my knuckles while all the adrenaline drained, leaving me exhausted. My muscles ached slightly, but they were already recovering. I leaned back, my mind already replaying the fight, adjusting, calculating what I’d do differently next time.

I didn’t realise when I fell asleep. When my eyes snapped open, was the scent of blood that woke me. Not mine or April’s, this was fresh and unfamiliar.

The room was dark except for the low light from the kitchen, and Nathan moved slowly, pouring a drink with his back to me. He tensed, his wolf sensing me awake, but he didn’t turn immediately. He downed his drink in one go and poured another.

And then he turned slowly.

His shirt was gone, and a ruined jacket hung from his shoulders. Splashes of red covered his chest, dried blood still staining the corner of his mouth.

He walked over and sat beside me, sipping his drink slowly.

“I’m sorry,” he said quietly.

I blinked. Nathan had never apologised to me before,

“I shouldn’t have shouted,” he said, before he exhaled.

He looked as drained as I’d been before sleep reenergised me, but something told me this wasn’t just a physical exhaustion.

“You were right. April shouldn’t have been out there with me.”

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“That’s not why,” he said, leaning forward, elbows on his knees, his glass dangling loosely from his fingers. “I don’t know why this is happening to me.”

His words were soft and uncertain. Nathan had never sounded uncertain. He’d been arrogant from the moment I’d met him in the gym. He dragged a hand over his face and straightened slightly.

“I’ve handled it,” he said, his tone more confident. “I’ll take April somewhere safer once I arrange it.”

Arrange it with Hunter? That thought came unbidden, and I pushed it away. Why was he still plaguing me?

“Things have changed after tonight,” Nathan said as he stood. “Take care of yourself.”

He set the glass down on the table and walked out. And I was left sitting in the dark, wondering what these changes meant for me. If maybe…

I wouldn’t have to hold back anymore. Because that thing inside me still wasn’t satisfied. And next time, I wasn’t sure I would be, either.

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