The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 171

Chapter 171

I smile. Slow, Controlled. The kind that doesn’t reach anything soft.

That works that means I can attack him while David is at Howling Moon. Split the head from the body. Leave David exposed.

“Will David be there?” I ask.

“Yes. He never misses attacks he likes to see the look on the Alpha’s face when they realize they lost everything” he says.

My fingers twitch at my side. Not nerves-restraint.

That makes Zeus growl low.

“He just makes me want to kill him even more now” He snarls.

Not just kill. Break. Slowly. Make him feel it.

“Where will you be?” I question.

“I will be there trying to get as many of them out as I attempted to do at the other packs” he says.

That again-he doesn’t say survive. He says save. There’s a difference. I note it.

“I couldn’t save anyone at Ironclaw it all happened too fast and the Beta, he wanted to die” he says.

Ironclaw. The failure sits between us for half a second too long. He carries it. I recognize that weight.

“yeah I know Lyric set him free and sent him back to be with his mate and pup” I say.

Her choices ripple through everything. Even here. Even now.

He smiles “She is a good Queen” he says.

Not flattery. Not trying to earn anything. Just fact. That lands heavier than anything else he’s said.

“Oh and those two warriors you’re looking for is hiding out in the rogue settlement, that’s why you haven’t been able to find them”

he says.

I smirk -sharp, decisive. No hesitation behind it.

“Good now they all can die together, I killed Caleb and Serena is next” I say.

Names, targets. Nothing more. That’s all they are now.

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He nods “I have to go David is on his way back to the settlement by now” he says.

“How are you going to explain this?” I say gesturing to the bodies of the rogues.

Blood still wet. The smell thick. It hasn’t even settled into the ground yet.

He shrugs “He told me to send them and he told me to tell them to attack whoever they saw by the runes” he says smiling.

“who would have thought it would be the King” he says smile spreading wider across his face.

That smile isn’t careless. It’s precise. He knew exactly how this would play out.

“You planned this?” I ask smiling.

Matching him. Measuring him. Seeing how far he’ll go with it.

“I did what my Alpha told me to do” he says looking over his shoulder.

Deflection. Clean. Not a lie, but not the full truth either. He’s learning how to move in gray. Fast.

“You have company coming, I have to go” he says standing and running back into the darkness of the forest.

Gone quick. No hesitation. No second look. Like he trusts I won’t follow. That sticks with me more than anything he said.

Dom and Hunter run up to me.

“Everything good Alpha?” Dom asks.

“Yeah, I just ran into an unexpected visitor, conversation for tomorrow, it’s going to be a long day” I say shifting into Zeus and

running back to the palace.

Long doesn’t even cover it. Everything just shifted, and there’s no room to misstep now.

“Meeting in the conference room before breakfast inform the Alpha’s” I say to Dom.

“Hunter we still need to talk about Mason, so find me after breakfast” I say heading up to my room.

Jonathan showing up tonight gave me a lot to think about. Too much, too fast-and I don’t have time to sit with any of it. I just

have to be right.

He may have been the missing piece I needed to get my mate and pups home safely.

Or the one variable that gets her killed if I trust him wrong.

Also the missing piece to destroying David for good and putting all of this Eloise bullshit behind us.

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Tomorrow the bear King falls and then the witch dies.

No delays. No second chances. Everything moves or everything breaks.

David is going to wish death comes too quick, because when I’m done he will be begging for death.

And I won’t give it to him.

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