Unwanted Mate Of The Lycan Kings (by jessica hall) novel Chapter 55

My eyes move to Regan, watching us behind her and he nods once, moving toward his office.

“You let him?” She questions and I can see the question in her eyes. She wants to know why I would let him touch me. It is clear she knew about his curse.

“I’m okay. He didn’t hurt me,” I repeat, and she looks at my bloodied sleeve. She moves to push my sleeve up, but I stop her.

“You can go; I can wrap it myself,” I tell her, and her brows furrow.

“Hurry, Zeke will be looking for me soon; I have to swap brothers,” I tell her, and her eyes widen, and she quickly nods her head. Yet saying that while in this state sounds very inappropriate. Amy gives me the first aid kit and rushes out the door. I let out a breath of relief, and Regan wanders back out. He leans against his office door frame, folding his arms across his chest.

“You admitted to letting me touch you,” he states.

“Because it's the truth?”

“Most paint me as a monster; you could have.” he shrugs.

“Only because no one lives to say otherwise,” I tell him, and he tilts his head to the side. He nods slowly. “I suppose you have a point.”

“When was the last time you were with a woman, I mean like slept with one?” He shrugs.

“A few years. I got sick of being used as a way to get to Lyon, I got sick of living with the guilt of killing them too.”

“Why Lyon?”

“Well, most aren’t suicidal enough to go for Zeke. That’s a sure death, he cares little for others.” He states.

“But some still do?” He nods his head.

“And he kills them. Like me he can’t help it,” Regan states.

“The same as you?” I question.

“Kind of. Me marking them kills them. It poisons them. Lyon, his pride and greed are what kill the women he’s with. The last one died because his paranoia got the better of him. He thought she was trying to steal his throne.”

“And Zeke?” I ask.

“He can’t stop, sex becomes addictive, one even starved to death, though most die from exhaustion. Envy and gluttony.” my brows furrow in confusion at his last words.

“The seven cardinal sins?” I murmur to myself trying to make sense of it. “So what are you?” I murmur.

“Wrath and lust.” He states, and I swallow.

“So part of your curse is the seven cardinal sins?” I ask trying to wrap my head around what he is saying.

“Yes, and only the seven virtues can release us of our curse, only she can,” Regan mutters, and my eyes move over his tattoos, and I finally notice the full picture of what they mean. The runes, I can now tell, are separate from the pictures etched into his skin. It now makes sense why Zeke’s was a snake biting and an apple, the skulls representing death, the snake envy, and the apple gluttony. Yet wrath is a lion? I glance at Regan’s tattoos as he moves closer.

“Why a lion?” I ask.

“Well, it would look funny given I’m a Lycan not a cat shifter.” he shrugs. I nod my head, “So the burning woman is lust?”

“The women's lust and fire is how Litha died, we all have something that represents Litha,” “Zeke’s is the fire?” Regan nods his head and my brow furrow as I think over what he’s told me.

“Wait! You said only she can save you ALL from the curse?”

“Yes, we are cursed to share the same mate, now you know why even if we found her, we’d never be able to break it. We’d kill her or try to kill each other.”