THE LYCAN CITY. HIDDEN WOODSFUGITIVE DERONSylria was a lot slower than usual, or I had gotten even faster. I easily caught up to her, grabbing her from behind as she ran and we both tumbled over on the grass, laughter loud and shrill.She kissed me slowly, allowing me to rummage my hands for any openings in her clothing so I slip my warm beneath.She grabbed my wrists, “Nah ah! Let’s do it properly, I smiled.She stood up, taking my hand and leading me in a straight line to where I did not know. It was after a few strides that we got to a small stream. The gravelly bed of the stream was low beneath and the water flowed slowly down a narrow path.“A stream? Here?”“The forest has to sustain itself somehow…” she cocked her her head to one side before starting to take off her clothes.“Wait, you’re not seriously going to—”“Of course I am, and you’re coming in with me!”She didn’t even take the time to fold her clothes before jumping and folding herself into a ball as she hit the water
THE LYCAN CITY. LUKKAR CASTLEVALERIEThe next morning was just like every other, I was actually beginning to enjoy the peace that came with living in the castle. Lukkar grumbled in his sleep when I pulled the pillow from under his head and he nestled in with the duvet.I pulled at one of his dreads, the silver strands of hair had weaved themselves in beautiful patterns to form each dread. He grumbled again and moved his head away when I pulled too hard.I chucked at the childish way he fought for his sleep, opening the curtains and allowing bright morning light to paint the room.“Urghrhgrrgh…” Lukkar mumbled, blinking his eyes open and looking at me. He came back so late last night I had to share the dinning table with only Amin (what a torture) and slept off alone only to wake up and see him on the bed, holding me tightly from behind.“I knew my pillow was gone!” He said disgruntled and I tossed the pillow back at him.“Your kingdom is so… bright and peaceful.”“As opposed to the E
THE LYCAN CITY. UNKNOWNFUGITIVE DERON“Great! Just great!” The noble man barked at his servant, the young boy had just dropped another ceramic plate I guessed.“Do you know how much those cost?! More than your worth that’s for sure!” He barked again.“I’m s-sorry master please forgive my clumsiness…” the boy stuttered as he probably picked up the pieces of the broken plate from the floor.The room I lay in was spacious and vacant, this must have been a guest room. I was as uninvited as an ugly zit on the forehead. I managed to sneak in through the back with the help of ankh and even helped myself to a balanced dinner in the middle of the night. The noble that lived here was generous to himself with his food, in fact, he ate so much and so fast you’d think he could eat a whole feast.When his mate and their toddler son all retired to bed, I was left alone with the servant and we ate the perfect left overs in silence. The servant of course had no idea I was staring at him from across t
THE LYCAN CITY. HIDDEN WOODSSYLRIASaying it was hard to think was an understatement. It was like anything did somehow reminded me of Deron and it was made even harder because my room stank with his scent.The day has passed by pretty quickly with me for the most part rolled up in my sheets, doing absolutely nothing and I felt just as empty.I sat outside my cabin, staring into the nights sky and visualising the two of us dropping from a star like we did in the fare. Nelma played with some large insect a few feet from me, I gave her a mindless prod on her head and she looked at me with an awkward smile.“Where’s pretty boy?” She stood up, looking excited. I winced, I had hoped she’d somehow forget about him the way kids forgot about important things pretty easily, though I wasn’t sure she’d be forgetting about Deron anytime soon—and so wouldn’t I.“Nelma…”“Is he at sleep?” She beamed. Deron almost never slept, it was like he was always planning. Whoever had made him abandon his king
THE LYCAN CITY. LUKKAR CASTLEVALERIEThe little woman must have been a fairy or some other magical entity to have made such a dress in such a short of time. I had Ariel put the dress on a manikin and place it to the to wall of my room where it would be close to the door window so I’d wake up every morning and it would be the first thing I’d see. The dress made the one the Alpha Emeral had gifted me seem like a rag, its fabric glittered with diamond dust and would catch a beautiful rainbow gleam if put just at the right angle to the sun light.I freshened up quickly once I woke, Lukkar had so thoughtfully made me a teapot of sweet tea and placed it on the cabinet. My introduction was merely three days away and I wasn’t confident in my own memory shelf of the names of dead rulers Reila had been trying to teach me for the past weeks.Lukkar hugged me from behind, I had sensed him enter—a sign that I was getting closer to bonding with my wolf—but I pretended not to.“Like the dress?” His
THE LYCAN CITY. LUKKAR CASTLEVALERIEThe door opened and I felt Reilas presence behind me but did not turn back, I was transfixed staring into Rosalies icy gaze.“Your grace… and Lady Rosalie…” I could feel her raise an eyebrow.“Ahh, my time is up.” She said in a tiptop manner, draining the cup and placing it back on the cabinet.“Have a nice day… miss Ariel.” She smiled deviously before brushing past me, her perfume so thick it could choke me and I wondered how she was able to breathe Judy fine with the cloud of fragrance up her nose all day.“What was that about?” Reilas curiosity was something I could tell she was trying to hide but failing to do so, do I tell her about it or not? She was already getting careless with handling my identity, maybe I should keep this to myself.“Nothing important.” I said at once, but even I knew that my very expression spoke otherwise.“Nothing important? Nothing important has you all sweaty?” She asked, walking to my front and my eyes where anywher
THE LYCAN CITY. UNKNOWN FUGITIVE DERON I paid less attention to the possibility of being caught tucked in bed by the noble wolf or his servant, my mind was filled with scenes of Warriors setting fire and destroying the Hidden Woods and Sylria being dragged off into the flames. I could barely sleep but when I did I had a dream that I was torn between saving Valerie from a Hunter or saving Sylria from a deathly Warrior. I couldn’t choose and I woke up when they were both dragged off out of my reach. Jharad had told the Warrior to make their attack during the night of the Queens introduction, my plan was to warn Sylria before the sun goes down, just when I was sure Jharad would not be in the Hidden Woods. If I could warn her and still make it in time for the introduction, I could save Sylria and snag Valerie in one night. The Queens introduction was three days from now, if all goes as I planned I would be out of this kingdom with Valerie in three days time. If all goes as planned. Bu
THE LYCAN CITY. LUKKAR CASTLEALPHA LUKKARI wanted Valerie to shower in my room, would have taken the advantage to get my blood hot with a little romance.Yesterday she had told me she was fine from the dinning table, but I could tell there was something disturbing her. There was something on her mind; something she wasn't telling me and as soon as the sun rose she was already out of my room.Amin came in after she had left, he had a muffin with a plump cherry on top.I took the muffin from his hand, plucking out the cherry and I shoved it into my mouth, Amin’s cooking was so good it could save him from a death sentence.I saw the way he looked at me, ashamed that I had eaten the muffin he baked specially for himself.“Oh, I didn’t know that was for you.” I put what was left of the cake in his hand. But that wasn’t it, something else was wrong and it definitely was not the half eaten muffin. It was something serious.“That’s not it is it?” I asked and he shook his head slowly. “The s