I Bought A Male Escort, Turns Out He's The Lycan King (by lg savage) novel Chapter 241

Chapter 241

Chapter 241

HUNTER

The second the voice hit the trees, every instinct in me went feral.

It was in my fucking head.

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My grip tightened on Kitty’s arm as the unfamiliar magic inside me stirred again. My own power was still suppressed, and my beast was still silent, but whatever ancient darkness had been forced into me still reacted. It pulled sharply, recognising the call.

Kitty went rigid beside me, her breath catching as the shadows lashed around her ankles like striking snakes. The black tendrils that had been stretching through the trees froze for a single heartbeat, then surged harder towards the darkness beyond Malcolm’s boundary.

Kitty,” I said under my breath. I wasn’t sure if they could hear me, or if they were just controlling our magic. “Katerina.”

Her eyes stayed fixed ahead as if she’d heard the voice too and was still listening for more.

“Katerina,” I said, louder this time.

She blinked once, slowly, her eyes still distant, and then turned her face towards me. Her pupils were blown wide, swallowing almost all the blue in her eyes.

“I know that voice,” she whispered.

Ice slid down my spine. From the conversation with Kostas, I knew it was one of the two women, but neither of them looked familiar to me. The Bureau had a database I personally curated, a watchlist of powerful supernaturals capable of causing catastrophic damage if they ever decided to step outside the rules. Those three witches were not on that list.

They had been hiding until this moment. Perhaps waiting for someone like Kitty to appear.

“From where?” I asked.

“I don’t know,” she whispered again, her frustration bleeding into the words.

Her body jerked forward so violently I had to catch her with both hands. The shadows lunged with her, dragging through the leaves and roots as if they’d found a scent trail.

“Fuck.”

I hauled her back against me, locking one arm around her waist, but I was still too weak. Stripped down, dulled, essentially human by my standards. If she really fought me, I wasn’t sure I could hold her.

“Fight it.”

“I am,” she bit out through clenched teeth.

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She sounded furious, but even as she struggled against her own magic, her eyes stayed blue. Her wolf didn’t press forward to defend her; it didn’t react at all.

Then she met my gaze, and for one brief second, I saw terror in her eyes. Kitty didn’t scare easily. Lately, she attacked first and thought later. If fear had reached through whatever numbness had allowed her to shut me out, then this thing had its claws in deep.

The forest seemed to shudder around us. Power rolled through the trees in a low pulse from somewhere behind me, magic striking into root and bark like a warning. Weak as I was, I knew that magic instantly.

Malcolm.

He stepped out from between two pines barefoot, his dark hair loose around his shoulders, and silver ward marks glowing faintly along his forearms. His gaze went first to Kitty, then to the shadows clawing through the ground, and finally to me.

“How did she end up here?”

We’d all been scouring the mountain for the better part of an hour. Kitty had masked herself so well that not even the strong alphas in the cabin had been able to track her.

“Something pulled her halfway across your mountain,” I said, staring to hold her back. “Then it mindlinked

us.”

Malcolm’s jaw hardened. He knew what that meant as much as I did. Their magic had grown inside Kitty so much that they could reach through the distance, through the wards. Through us.

Kitty gasped and doubled over. Wolf-shaped shadows burst upwards around her, circling her body in frantic loops before racing back towards the trees.

Malcolm crouched and pressed one palm to the earth, and I felt the land answer instantly. The ground vibrated beneath my boots just before roots tore up from the soil several feet ahead, twisting together into a wall as thick as my torso, blocking the path the shadows kept trying to take.

Kitty cried out, and I spun her towards me. Her face had gone pale, and sweat beaded at her temples even though her skin was still ice-cold.

“What’s happening?”

Panic clawed up my throat. I was trapped in the same nightmare as before the fight with the ancient dark magic. My beast and magic were suppressed, and all I had left was a damaged bond and bare hands.

“It hurts.”

“Where?”

She slammed a hand over her chest. The bond pulsed between us, scraping against my nerves and senses. As I wrapped my arms around her, I realised that whatever was pulling at her wasn’t just tugging at her body. It was pulling through the mating bond, too.

Trying to drag her through me.

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Trying to take my mate from me.

I bared my teeth. That was a bad move. A very bad move. For the first time since I opened my eyes, the beast stirred faintly in my chest. It wasn’t enough for me to help, but it was enough to feel rage.

Branches snapped behind us. Two large black wolves broke through the trees, one with golden eyes and the other with yellow. Rivers shifted and approached me and Kitty, instantly placing his hand on her shoulder. I felt his magic roll through her, and a faint golden haze covered his fingers.

I could see magic again.

The shadows stopped slamming against Malcolm’s wall, but they didn’t stop sliding across it, as if they were still searching for cracks or any weaknesses.

Kitty gritted her teeth and closed her eyes. Her breathing slowed. The shadows hesitated and then slowly dragged back towards us. I watched every inch of them until they coiled around her ankles, and finally fizzled

out.

The forest became quiet again.

Moments later, April burst through the trees, wearing one of Malcolm’s oversized coats over her clothes, her curls wild around her face. The scent of wolfsbane reached me now that my beast was beginning to wake.

“They still found her even with Mal’s wards,” Rivers said, his voice tight as he looked towards the older man.

Malcolm had dropped to one knee, his fingers still buried in the earth as he caught his breath. Holding the witches back had cost him.

Kostas had shifted back but stood apart from all of us.

“She’s running out of time,” he said.

Kitty’s head snapped in his direction. One second, she was in my arms, and the next, she had Kostas by the throat, shoving him against a tree hard enough to shake needles loose from the branches.

“Start talking,” she snarled.

Even with my limited vision, I saw the detached look return to her eyes. She didn’t care that this was the brother she’d loved her whole life. The one she couldn’t kill, even after he’d been corrupted by the ancient magic.

“It isn’t a story for the woods,” Kostas said. He didn’t try to pry her hand off. “And not one you should hear while standing half inside whatever is calling you.”

Her shadows struck at him like lashes. He winced but still didn’t fight back. April stepped beside Kitty, showing some of the backbone that had pulled her through the dark times when she’d been Elijah’s target. She touched Kitty’s elbow carefully.

“Come on. Let’s get back to the cabin.”

“I’m not going anywhere until someone tells me what the hell is happening.”

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