I Bought A Male Escort, Turns Out He's The Lycan King (by lg savage) novel Chapter 236

Chapter 236

Chapter 236

KAT

Yes, he would do.

Alpha Alpha stood unmoving at the centre of the clearing, and all I could think of was the fight I was going to have. Aaron was no match for me, but this man would give me something real. Red bled through my vision completely, and my hunger focused into something colder and more precise. All the noise around me faded into the background as adrenaline flooded my veins.

Even that magic pressing against my skin failed to take my focus away from Alpha Carter.

The wolves around him stayed back now, their heads lowered, and their bodies still moving in those unnatural, jerking motions as the red pulse beneath their skin. They weren’t part of this anymore.

“Where is he?” Carter shouted, his eyes glowing gold.

I tilted my head, studying him. With that red ooze over him, I assumed he’d be as hard to kill as the others, and I was already run down. But the thing inside me refused to retreat. I didn’t want to just hunt, I wanted to win..

To move past this and find the next challenge, and the next after that.

“Didn’t anyone tell you? I asked, my voice low. “That coward is dead.”

It didn’t matter if he was or he wasn’t. If he wasn’t, I’d kill him if he ever crossed my path again, just like I’d wipe out all the Carters.

Alpha Carter’s roar hit me and bounced back, echoing strangely through the space, almost like the magic was soundproofing us. He charged forward without shifting, but Hunter stepped in front of me, blocking him. My gaze locked on the back of his head as my fists clenched. This was my fight.

“He’s not dead,” Hunter growled. “Calm the fuck down and think about what you’re doing, Carter.”

“What I’m doing?” Carter growled. “It’s what you’re doing, Your Majesty. Habouring a woman like this when she’ s a fucking disaster. A woman who kidnaps our children and spits on hierarchy. What kind of king are you?”

His lip curled.

“Though I’ve never expected much from a Lycan.”

Hunter’s shoulders tensed, and his rage saturated the air until it tasted bitter on my tongue. But I wasn’t interested in their argument. I pushed him aside so I was face-to-face with the alpha again.

“Spitting on hierarchy?” I asked. “Then who am I, Alpha Carter?”

“You’re an omega,” Carter spat. “Nothing more than a glorified servant. You don’t get to tell my children to kneel for you in front of the whole kingdom just because your father is the Alpha King.”

“Tell them to kneel?” I chuckled, and the sound bounced back just like his roar had.

The last time this bloodlust had clawed up my throat like this, I’d been single-minded, only looking at how fast I could make my prey bleed. Now I was focused on how much I could hurt this man, not just physically. Something twisted in my chest that wanted him to hurt in all ways. Bleed in all ways. I wanted his soul to wither before me before I ripped his throat out.

“Do you want to see it, too, Alpha Carter?” I asked. “Do you want to see how I told all your bastard children to bend their knees?”

I walked around Hunter and ignored the wolves still waiting to make their moves around us. My shadows uncoiled and slithered on the ground around me, snaking out in all directions. When I stood only a few feet from Alpha Carter, I let my wolf press forward. She took control so quickly, as if she’d just been waiting for the chance. Carter wasn’t scared. He held the same misguided confidence that his children had.

“Alpha Bronson’s right about you,” Carter sneered. “The Lordswood bloodline is a joke. Anyone else would have done better as the chosen heir to the throne.”

The smirk returned to my face. Even though I agreed with him, I wasn’t going to let him say it.

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Chapter 236

“Kneel.”

I said it quietly, but the word rolled across the field with more force than the night I’d done the same to the Lycans. It came from me, but I felt it grazing my cold skin as my aura burst from me.

Carter’s knees hit the ground so fast the crack echoed in the soundproofed park. The same sound came from behind the trees and shrubs surrounding the park, where more of his people hid. And the wolves surrounding us crouched low in total submission, something they hadn’t done even when Alpha Carter appeared.

Carter coughed up blood and clutched his chest before his eyes lifted to me.

“How could this be?” he whispered.

“I’ll show you how,” I said, closing the distance between us.

I had Carter by his throat a second later, my grip like a vice as I dragged him up despite the red ooze covering his skin. My muscles and bones snapped and stretched as my wolf pushed into a half-shift until his feet dangled in the air. Subconsciously, I registered that this transformation was new. Only Lycans could half-shift. But that realisation vanished as quickly as it dawned. My claws curled into Carter’s throat as they extended, and the scent of his blood hit my nose.

I inhaled, filling my lungs as my body called for me to finally give it what it wanted. My shadows wrapped around my fingers and Carter’s neck. To the naked eye, they were just an extension of my hand, but I watched them ripple as they had before, feeding on the red that dripped down the alpha’s neck.

The magic inside me reacted instantly, and the weakness that had plagued me eased just a little. But instead of the blood satisfying me, sharp pangs of hunger twisted my stomach. In the back of my mind, something whispered that spilling Carter’s blood wouldn’t be enough. The urge to finish him off so I could dull this pain took over me, pushing everything else away.

I watched Carter’s face pale and his lips start to turn blue as he spluttered and gasped. He didn’t put up much of a fight besides clawing at my fingers.

Useless. Justin had given me a better fight than this.

I was about to end it all when something slammed down on my shoulders so hard I released Carter and fell to my knees. The pressure cracked my bones, and a scream ripped from my throat. This was the same magic from the other night. The same magic that still lingered inside me, only it was much worse than before. I wasn’ t just being attacked from the outside; the unfamiliar magic tore through me from inside, too. My focus moved from the man I’d wanted to destroy to the edge of the park, where the thin man stood with his hands in his pockets. There was no smile on his lips this time, only a cold malice I felt with every wave of his magic.

“Kitty.”

The same pain in my body was clear in his voice, but I couldn’t look back because of the weight crushing me down. My shadows snaked back into me, fizzling out as soon as they tried to coil around me. They couldn’t protect me because the threat was already inside me, tearing me up as it answered its master.

And they couldn’t reach out to Hunter.

The bond that I’d shut out barely rippled as I coughed up blood the way Carter had done. The man himself was sprawled in front of me, gasping for breath, unaffected by the magic seeping into me and twisting my insides until everything burned.

Still, my gaze remained on the witch. My target. My vision was still red, and the hunger multiplied. It weaved through the pain until nothing else mattered besides satisfying it.

Alpha Carter stopped coughing and pushed to his feet. The wounds on his neck had stopped bleeding, but they were still open, and the red ooze rippled inside them. Even as the pressure and the magic drained me, I watched it replenish him until he stood tall over me.

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