The Lunar Queen (Lyric and Mason) novel Chapter 183

Chapter 183

Cole POV

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When we get to the hospital, Dad is pacing in the waiting room. Back and forth, over and over, like standing still isn’t an option

right now. When I step inside, he’s on me instantly.

“What happened to him, who would do this to him?” he asks.

“He’s just a pup,” he says softly. The word sits heavier coming from him than it should.

“He is a pup who is the Beta of the rogue king, he knew what he was getting himself into helping her, helping me,” I say. Even as 1/

say it, it doesn’t land clean. Not fully.

“How did he end up with David as a rogue?” he asks.

“Him and Freya joined White Mountain Pack, and when it was attacked she was taken as a breeder for your brother’s Beta, she had to agree to do whatever for him to even take Jonathan with her,” I say to him, locking eyes with him. I don’t look away this time. Not from him. Not from what that means.

“This is all my fault,” he says, voice cracking, and he drops into a chair. Just drops, like something gave out under him.

The doctor and Tabitha walk out of his room.

“How is he?” I ask.

“Thanks to Queen Tabitha removing the silver and stopping the blood, he will be fine,” Doctor Stewart says.

“He’s actually awake, and asking for you, Alpha,” she says.

When we walk into the room, he smiles at me. Too easy. Too normal for everything that just happened to him.

“Hello brother,” he says.

“The word lands heavier this time. Not just something said. Something real now.”

“What happened, Jonathan?” I ask.

“When we got to Howling Moon, the Alpha was ready and waiting for us. When we attacked and stormed the pack, we were losing from the start and then the bears, they started roaring before they ran off in the middle of the fight. We had to retreat but none of the pack’s warriors followed us. They just made sure we crossed the border and when we were running back to the settlement he had two of the rogues grab me,” he says, pausing to catch his breath. Each word takes effort. You can hear it. See it.

“He said nobody knew about the attack besides me and him and Axel and him dying at the same time of the attack wasn’t

coincidence,” he says.

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Chapter 183

He shakes his head. “He said he knew I betrayed him the day before at the clinic but he couldn’t prove it and this fated attack And Axel’s death were proof and he pulled a silver knife from his pocket and stabbed me for every year I claimed to be his brother and

then he left me to die,” he says, voice cracking at the end, tears streaming down his face.

That sits in my chest heavier than anything else. Not the attack. Not the betrayal. The years. Counted out like that. Paul back in

blood.

“I just wanted to save my mate and Lyric, she is special. My mother used to tell me stories about her. Well the wolf/who would be

reborn with Eloise’s face and save the wolves,” he says.

“How did you get here?” Tabitha asks her voice rough with emotion.

He looks at her and tilts his head slightly, like he’s trying to focus through the pain instead of answering right away “You really book

like her” he says in awe.

“The purple eyes are kind of freaky but wow it’s like staring at her” he says and there’s something off about the way he says it-no fear, not confusion-just quiet recognition, like he’s grounding himself in something familiar so he doesn’t slip

“I ran, Howling Moon isn’t that far from here” he says like it didn’t cost him anything, like his body isn’t barely holding together

right now

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