My Mate Is The Lycan King (Daisy and Kai) novel Chapter 125

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He didn’t hesitate before shaking his head. “I’m not going to apologize for that, Kai. If you weren’t so pissed already, you’d appreciate that.”

I shook my head, running my fingers through my hair with a low chuckle.

“Kai-” Daisy began, reaching out for me but I took a step back.

“Keep me updated on everything.”

I ignored my mate calling out to me, grabbed a coat and headed out the front doors.

I knew I was overreacting. I knew that once I managed to calm down, I’d feel guilt of treating her this way and ignoring her, but I couldn’t shake off the hurt.

Perhaps it was my own actions that had pushed her to feel the need to hide the truth from me. But what actions could those be? I had done nothing but love and protect her-

“You’re hurting her,” my lycan said softly in my mind. “I can feel her wolf.”

I didn’t respond, but I knew he was right. My wall was down, but ever so often, one of her emotions would slip through my defenses: her pain, her sadness, her guilt.

“Whatever this is, it needs to stop,” he continued. “She’s hurting.”

“I know she’s fucking hurting.”

“She would’ve told you at some point.”

“I’m not fucking pissed because she didn’t tell me. I’m pissed because she could have been hurt. She would have put herself and our child in danger.”

The concept of my anger was far too complicated for my lycan to understand.

He tried on most days, but at his core, he was pure beast. To him, things were black and white. It wasn’t normal to him that she was pregnant and we were here in the office, drowning ourselves in work. To him, we should be glued to her side.

I felt everything he did, the urge to be with her and the need to hold her, but it didn’t negate the betrayal I felt with how everything had played out.

A soft knock on my office door snapped me out of my thoughts. I looked up just as Scarlett pushed the door

open.

“Is it okay if I interrupt?” she asked and I nodded slowly. “I didn’t think you’d be here.”

“Where did you think I’d go?”

“Her grave,” she said simply.

I fell silent.

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Chapter 125

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I hadn’t visited my mother’s grave in a while. In the beginning, I went almost every week. Slowly, the weeks began to turn to months, then I’d be lucky if I was able to make it once or twice a year. I thought about her all the damn time, but I hadn’t been to her grave in almost two years.

“I thought about it,” I admitted. “But I could almost picture her slapping me at the back of my head and asking me to return to my pregnant mate.”

“So why haven’t you?” she asked.

She wasn’t trying to guilt trip me, I could tell she was genuinely curious.

“Do you not want the baby?”

“Of course I do,” I cut her off. “I just-I don’t know how to navigate this right now. She’s always hiding something, always keeping her cards close to her chest-‘

“You’re exactly the same,” she interrupted me. “You keep secrets. You scheme and you manipulate. You didn’t get to where you are as king by being all open and honest.”

“Not with her. I am all those things, but never with her. I have never hidden anything from her, not even the ones I thought to be dangerous.”

“I’m not here to make excuses for her or try to make sense of what she did because I can’t. Only she knows the true intentions behind her actions but if you don’t give her a chance to explain then you’ll never know either.”

She sighed, leaning forward on her elbows.

“You’ve had a century to deal with the shit that life threw at you. I think you sometimes forget that she’s just in her twenties. If she were a lycan, she’d be considered a baby. Hiding the pregnancy from you was wrong, but punishing her for it is even worse a crime. She may not have known better, but you do.”

I knew that already, but hearing her say it out loud just made me realize how much of a jack ass I’d been.

“Is she here with you?” I asked but she shook her head.

“She stayed home. She told me she was fine, but I don’t think she was telling the truth.”

“Is she alone?”

“Damien is with her.”

“Can you-”

“Hold down the fort?” she asked, lips curling into a grin. “Always. Go get your girl.”

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