The Lycan King novel Chapter 39

Nikolai

My legs felt heavy as I walked to my unconscious brother. I picked up his left hand and immediately dropped it when he let out a low, pain-filled groan.

I inspected the bite.

The visible flesh had already blackened and the tatters of the skin around was turning a dark greenish-blue in colour. The veins around the bite were slowly turning black too.

The poison was slowly spreading to his entire body.

"What happens now?" I asked Grace.

"The rest of the wounds will heal in a couple of days. It's the bite that worries me, Alpha Nikolai. I don't have full knowledge on how to treat a vampire bite." She replied.

"Who will have a full knowledge?" I asked.

"There is no real cure for a vampire's bite. There are herbs that can slow it down but that means extending his life for a couple of years and living in constant pain. He will feel the poison spreading in his body every second. Not a lot of people choose to do it." Grace replied.

"But I had read in a book before I was kicked out of my old pack that extracting the vampire's saliva from the wound will help. But the rest of the pages were too faded to be coherent so I'm not sure how to do it. And I'm not sure how accurate that is." She added.

There is no way I am going to let Mikhail die.

"Do whatever you can. I'll try to arrange something." I replied. I'll talk to Rhazien and Vladimir. There has to be a cure.

"Yes, Alpha." She replied as she tied up the bandaid on his mid-rift.

"What is the extent of his injuries?" I asked.

"He has a knife wound in his stomach that caused internal bleeding that worries me right now. He also has four bruised ribs, two are broken." She replied.

That would take a couple of days max to heal. Internal bleeding would take more time but what really worried me was the bite.

I sighed and sat on the bed besides his sleeping form. I saw Grace mix different leaves as she kept mumbling chants under her breath before she applied it on his gnash.

The door opened and Rhazien stepped in.

"Where is Bailey?" I asked.

"Passed out on the couch. I've told two wolves to keep watch." He replied distractedly as he eyed Jessica, his eyes blood red.

"Step aside." He ordered Tessa who scrambled to move away.

He knelt in front of Jessica and bit his wrist and put it in front of her mouth. "Drink." He whispered, his voice unnaturally soft.

Jessica looked up at him with hazy eyes and did as he said,?without complaint!

I will never understand women.

"Is she Jessica Mathers?" He asked.

"Yes." I replied. Understanding dawned on me. His red eyes should have been a give away. Especially since he was an ancient and wouldn't loose control seeing or smelling blood.

"She's my beloved." He whispered, caressing her red hair.

"You've got your hands full." I muttered.

But he didn't pay attention to me, his eyes were only fixated on Jessica.

I let them be and looked at a grim Dimitri who was talking to Grace, asking about Mikhail.

I couldn't ask any pack to lend us their pack doctor. No one really liked rogues. No one would help us. But then there was no true cure about this...

I also wasn't willing to let Mikhail die without a fight. He has been by my side since we were fifteen and its going to stay that way.

"What's the cure for vampire bites?" I asked Rhazien.

His head snapped to mine from his mate. "There is no cure." He shook his head, his eyes later falling on Mikhail's affected hand.

'How is Mikhail?'?Vladimir mind-linked me.

'He is bitten by a vampire.'?I replied.

'Fuck!'?He cursed.

'We'll find something.'?I said, determined. 'What's the status with Grant?'?I asked.

Vladimir pulled Andrei and Dimitri into the link too.?'Grant was from your old pack, sent by your father to spy over Viktoria. He was giving him information but he wasn't involved in kidnapping her. He was under a misconception that your father wanted to look after you and your mother even if you both left him. He thinks Adrik is innocent. He killed Jerry and Volkov Corps's CEO?Christian Fallon too. Twenty million dollars were wired to Adrik. And this is only what Grant knows. He was told that Adrik wanted to look after Nikolai so Grant did the job for him and kept giving all the updates about you and the pack.'

How the hell did all of this happen without any of us noticing?

I needed to make everything right again. I will have to take some measures in the pack. I was sure there would be more of Adrik's spies in my pack. I will not let this go without retribution. Each and every person will pay.

'Don't kill him, we will be there in some time.'?I replied and looked at the grim faces of my brothers.

"I hope you all understands what this means." I said in a controlled voice as I clamped down my raging wolf. My blood was simmering with anger as I stood up from my place. Everyone in the room had their heads bowed from the amount of Alpha energy flowing from me. It affected Rhazien too because I was technically his King too. The human's appeared scared because they felt it but didn't understand what just happened.

I thought of Ava. My anchor. My redemption. And then pulled my wolf back, calming him, trying to make him understand that it wasn't time yet. I was finally able to pull the power back.

"How much more time Grace?" I asked.

"I'm almost dome Alpha." She replied as she tied a bandaid around Mikhail's thigh.

"Shift Mikhail to the infirmary at the estate for tonight. Call a pack meeting tomorrow at? 7 am sharp. You can shift him to the hospital after that." I don't trust anyone right now. "Andrei work on the reports, I want them by day after tomorrow and keep Tessa with you. Rhazien, you can take Jessica with you. Tell her she can meet Tessa day after tomorrow. She knows about supernaturals so its your job now to tell her everything. Dimitri, arrange for an ambulance and bring Mikhail to the estate. Grace will stay with him till he wakes up." I said and walked out of the room.

Bailey was sitting on the couch, glaring at the two guards in front of her.

"Bring her out." I told them and walked out of the door.

I waited behind the wheel as Andrei sat in the passenger seat with Tessa in his lap and the guards got in the back seat with Bailey in between to avoid her escape. Andrei wanted to run to the estate in his fur to release some tension but it wasn't safe anymore. The news of Grant and Bailey's arrest would have reached Mystic Lupus by now.

All this made me wonder what story Adrik must have spun after mom and I left.

We reached the estate in fifteen minutes. Andrei and Tessa left as soon as I parked the car. He had too much work.

The guards escorted Bailey to the dungeon. She had given up fighting by now. There was no hope of escaping anymore. She knew it.

Vladimir was waiting for us with a passed out Grant slumped on the chair. Bailey cried out, trying to reach to her father but the guards held her tightly, not letting her move.

"Set a chair for her, facing Grant." I ordered.?

The guards placed another chair so the father- daughter duo faced each other.

"Pour the water." I said. In a minute, Grant was drenched in cold water, snapping him awake with a gasp.

"Torture him some more to get Bailey talking. She may know something." I said.

'You can go rest after that.'?I added.

"Yes Alpha." Vladimir smirked.

I got out of the dungeon and went to my bedroom after that. Ava was sleeping on my side of the bed made me smile. I knelt in front of her, still smiling.